REsearch in English Linguistics
(REEL Day 2026)
Saturday, 7.2.2023, 10am-5pm
IG Building 311
The joint REEL Day of the working groups on English linguistics of Gutenberg University Mainz and Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. has been taking place regularly since 2019. In 2026, we will have contributions from two seminars from Goethe University (lecturers: Sascha Bargmann and Manfred Sailer), a seminar from Gutenberg University (lecturer: Matthias Eitelmann), and a seminar from University Hildesheim (lecturer: Ulrike Schneider).
The workshop is based on seminars taught at the three universities. Students will have the opportunity to present their in-class research projects to fellow students from the partner university.
The Frankfurt seminars are part of the teaching project Science Communication for Teachers (#SciComm4Teachers, Jan-Erik Leonhardt & Manfred Sailer).
Organizers
Sascha Bargmann (Frankfurt a.M.)
Matthias Eitelmann (Mainz)
Ulrike Schneider (Mainz & Hildesheim)
Manfred Sailer (Frankfurt a.M., local organization)
Directions
Here are directions from the station (Hauptbahnhof) to the University, with the route on foot from the U-Bahn station Holzhausenstrasse to the University shown as well (5 mins walk)
From Frankfurt/Main Central Station:
- Take the subway (U-Bahn): U4 (direction Seckbacher Landstr.) or U5 (direction Siegmund-Freud-Str)
exit at Willy-Brandt-Platz (1 stop!) - Change to U1 (Ginnheim), U2 (Bad Homburg Gonzenheim), U3 (Oberursel Hohemark), or U8 (Riedberg),
exit at Holzhausenstraße (4 stops) - About 6 minutes walk from there.
Note that we are in the IG Farben building. Just enter the building from the main entrance and go to the room immediately at your left (a few stairs up).
You can get a campus plan here
Preliminary Program
Download all abstracts in one file: REEL_Day_2026:_abstracts.pdf
| chair: Manfred Sailer | ||
| 10.00-10.15 | Organizers | Welcome |
| 10.15-10.30 | Jakub Bargiel, Kilian Jorde, Georg Mannhart, Janusa Rasu & Luca Ringel (Mainz) | Beyond Emotion: Phatic and Emotive Functions of Emojis in Digital Communication |
| 10.30-10.50 | Vladislav Getikov & Finja Meysing (Hildesheim) |
The house of the human sound machine |
| 10.50-11.05 | Klara Jegeus & Jill McLendon (Frankfurt a.M.) | What the __ |
| 11.05-11.25 | coffee break | |
| chair: Ulrike Schneider | ||
| 11.25-11.45 | Niklas Dietzen, Niko Schowalter, Luisa Ulrich, Alexander von Thun & Benigna Wilms (Mainz) | Trump’s Othering Practices on Truth Social |
| 11.45-12.05 | Kerstin Eickhoff-Piechaczek, Frederik Engel, Marius Hügel, Philipp Klüskens& Johannes Wild (Mainz) | Generational use of slang on Reddit |
| 12.05-12.25 | Nina Krotzin, Nicole Hirsch, Kris Ulrich & Katharina Maaß (Hildesheim) |
Language (cultural differences) in recipes |
| 12.25-12.40 | Change!!! Felix Blume (Frankfurt a.M.) |
Messy rooms and messy negations |
| 12.40-13.40 | lunch break | |
| chair: Sascha Bargmann |
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| 13.40-14.00 | Laura Drescher, Tim Augustin, Iman Turkovic, Esin Hadzhaoglu, Zoe-Nastasia &Oberlechner (Hildesheim) | Related or Not? Loanwords, Cognates and False Friends in English and Turkish |
| 14.00-14.15 | Nico Löffler (Frankfurt a.M.) | Any problems with the meaning of “any”? |
| 14.15-14.35 | Tobias Hastrich, Evelina Meng & Christina-Irina Strantzalis (Mainz) | Same Letters, Different Generations: Abbreviation Use in Gen Z and Gen Y Digital Discourse |
| 14.35-14.55 | coffee break | |
| chair: Matthias Eitelmann | ||
| 14.55-15.15 | Fiona Bennett, Freda Lilje, Lejla Murić, Hassan Saade & Büra Senyüz (Hildesheim) | Level Up: How Video Games Revolutionise ELL |
| 15.15-15.30 | Paul König (Frankfurt a.M.) | On the hunt for illegal words |
| 15.30-15.50 | Xenia Kleimeier, Miles Mürlebach, Tobias Petry, Lana Hama Saleh & Angelika Schapovalenko (Mainz) |
Slaying the History: A Survey on the Mainstreaming and Depoliticization of Queer Slang |
| 15.50-16.05 | coffee break | |
| chair: Manfrd Sailer |
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| 16.05-16.25 | Sinan Bethke, Myriam Bouchenafa, Sojin Kim, Korbinian Siffrin & Constantin Wieber (Mainz) | Authenticity and intimacy in influencer discourse: A linguistic analysis of Alix Earle’s Instagram persona |
| 16.25-16.40 | Hamza Kadri (Frankfurt a.M.) | Negative concord: Grammar, variation and social meaning |
| 16.40-16.55 | Felix Bllume (Frankfurt a.M.) | Messy negation and messy rooms |
| 16.55-17.05 | Organizers | Closing |