Organised events

March-December 2022; March-May 2024 - OSSO lecture series “Identity Online”, co-organized with Sofia Rüdiger; https://www.dariadayter.org/osso

June 2021 - Panel “Negotiating masculinities across media: communities, contexts, and discourses” at the 17th International Pragmatics Association Conference in Winterthur, Switzerland, co-organized with Alexandra Krendel, Mark McGlashan, and Rob Lawson.

November 2020 – open virtual conference “Influence, manipulation, and seduction – Interdisciplinary perspectives on persuasive language”, University of Basel, co-organised with Sofia Rüdiger https://persuasion-conference.philhist.unibas.ch

June 2019 – Workshop “Corpus approaches to social media”, ICAME40, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, co-organised with Sofia Rüdiger.

July 2017 – Panel “Self-Presentation and self-praise” at the 15th International Pragmatics Association conference in Belfast, UK, co-organised with Tom van Hout and Els Tobback.

June 2015 – Conference “Personal narrative online”, University of Bayreuth, Germany, co-organised with Prof. Susanne Mühleisen.

June 2012 – Workshop CLiMB (Corpus Linguistics Methods in Bayreuth), University of Bayreuth, Germany.

invited presentations

“Research ethics.” Panel at the ISLE summer school, with Sofia Rüdiger, Freiburg, Germany, 23 July 2024.

“Triangulation in discourse analysis: building bridges between methods and data types.” Invited lecture in the webinar series of the research group in Academic Literacy Studies, University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil, 27 May 2024.

“Studying interpersonal pragmatics in translation: key themes and challenges.” Invited webinar lecture for Zhejiang International Studies University, Beijing, China, 20 May 2024.

“Self-praise on social media and offline.” Invited lecture at the meeting of the Tampere fraction of the Finnish Professors' Union, Tampere, Finland, 7 May 2024.

“Changing meanings in polarising discourses: Exploring discourse keywords.” Invited lecture at the meeting of the Modern Language Society (Uusfilologinen yhdistys), Helsinki, Finland, 18 April 2024.

“Magical Affirmations: Affirmative Statements in the Pick-up Artist Paradigm,” with Sofia Rüdiger. Guest lecture in the LingLab lecture series, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 16 January 2024.

“Combining methods in discourse analysis.” Guest lecture at the University of Basel, Switzerland, 7 December 2023.

“Triangulation and combining methods in discourse analysis.” Plenary lecture at the AFinLa 2023 symposium, Tampere University, 9 November 2023.

“Using Discourse Analysis to study language.” Plenary lecture at the NordSlavic summer school, Tampere University, 31 May 2022.

“Online discourse of the speed seduction community.” with Sofia Rüdiger. Guest talk in “Social Groups in the Digital World” seminar, invited by Tom Van Hout, Tilburg University, 14 October 2021.

“Exploring the Online Seduction Industry – Methodological and Ethical Aspects.” Workshop taught together with Sofia Rüdiger, #GenderChallenge conference: Exploring Gender Identities Online; University of Greifswald, 18 July 2021.

“Pick-up artists' conversations with women: Power asymmetry and forced engagement.” with Sofia Rüdiger. Invited talk at the LIP research group, Lancaster University, 15 June 2021.

 “Language of attraction: online communication in a speed seduction community of pick-up artists.” Invited talk at the lecture series “Sprache und Kommunikation”, University of Basel, 7 May 2019.

“Measuring collocativity in a small corpus: is translationese different from originally produced English?” Invited talk at the ELR seminar series, University of Birmingham, 5 March 2019.

“The language of attraction: does it exist? Corpus-based discourse analysis of the speed seduction community online.” Invited talk at the LSS lecture series, Aston University, 27 February 2019.

“Corpus research in translation studies.” Guest lecture delivered at the Research Methods in Translation Studies seminar, instructor David Orrego-Carmona, Aston University, 12 February 2019.

“Corpus Creation from A to Z.” Invited workshop instructor, English Linguistics Department, University of Bayreuth, 1 February 2017.

"A corpus-based approach to the study of simultaneous interpretation." Invited talk at the departmental linguistic colloquium, Department for Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth, 19 April 2016.

"Success and failure of simultaneous interpreting: a corpus study." Invited talk at the King's College London, The Centre for Language, Research and Communication, 22 March 2016.

conference presentations

July 3, 2023. “Interpersonal function of “although I” in R/ChangeMyView argumentative discourse” with Thomas C. Messerli at the SymPol2023 conference at the University of Madeira.

November 18-19, 2022. “Pragmatics of persuasion on R/ChangeMyView“ with Thomas C. Messerli at the Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction 2, University of Bayreuth/Tampere University.

July 13, 2022. “Change my view about language: Language awareness on the subreddit r/changemyview.” with Thomas C. Messerli at the Sociolinguistic Symposium 24, Ghent University.

August 18-21, 2021. “Persuasive register in the Change My View subreddit” with Thomas C. Messerli at the iCAME42 conference, Dortmund University, Germany.

June 27-July 2, 2021. “Constructing authenticity in the seduction industry's ‘guru discourse’“ with Sofia Rüdiger. At the 17th IPrA conference, Winterthur, Switzerland.

June 24-26, 2021. “Dealing with interactionally risky speech acts in simultaneous interpreting: the case of self-praise.” At the sympol/iMean conference, University of Basel, Switzerland.

June 2-5, 2021. “Self-promotion from a speech act perspective: self-praise in a WhatsApp corpus.” At the ISLE6 conference, University of Eastern Finland, Finland.

November 20-21, 2020 “Persuasive Language and the Discourse of Seduction gurus,” with Sofia Rüdiger. At the online conference „Influence, manipulation, and seduction – Interdisciplinary perspectives on persuasive language“, University of Basel, Switzerland.

November 20-21, 2020 “Persuasive language and features of formality on the R/CHANGEMYVIEW subreddit,” with Thomas C. Messerli. At the online conference „Influence, manipulation, and seduction – Interdisciplinary perspectives on persuasive language“, University of Basel, Switzerland.

June 1-5, 2019 “Measuring variation in a corpus of simultaneous interpreting.“ At the ICAME40 conference, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

September 12-14, 2018 “Parallel corpus of simultaneous interpreting as a tool of contrastive linguistics: investigation of collocativity.” At the UCCTS 2018 conference, University of Louvain, Belgium.

April 13-14, 2018 “Costs of translation research – the view from the ground.” At the XVI Symposium on Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Turku, Finland.

March 23, 2018 “Corpus-based investigation of collocativity in simultaneously interpreted and original English speech.” At the SWELL conference at the Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

July 16-21, 2017 “Killer hugs, mad skills and no one trick ponies: self-presentation on pick-up artists’ online forums,” with Sofia Rüdiger. At the 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

July 13-14, 2017 “Corpus methods in a search for translationese in the parallel corpus of simultaneous interpreting Ru-En (SIREN).” Conference “Translation and Interpreting in Transition 3”, Ghent University, Belgium.

December 12-13, 2016 "Presenting statistics in a qualitative discipline", a participant presentation at the workshop on presenting in non-native language at IPCITI, Dublin City University.

September 15-17, 2016 "Corpus-based approach to simultaneous interpretation at the United Nations: multidimensional analysis of variation." EST Congress in Aarhus, Denmark.

July 11-13, 2016 "Online reports of seduction: When your informants don't trust you." Poster presentation at the Social Media and Society 2016, with Sofia Rüdiger.

October 6, 2015 “Creating a corpus of conference interpreting Russian-English.” Research colloquium of the Department of English, Basel, Switzerland.

June 27, 2015 “Boundary Work Through Personal Narrative: Becoming a Ballet Student on Twitter.” At the Personal narrative online conference, Bayreuth, Germany.

April 16-17, 2015 “Investigating the language of power in the community of pick-up artists”, with Sofia Rüdiger. At The Ethics of online research methods conference, Cardiff, UK.

September 27-29, 2014 “Complaining to build rapport in a Twitter community.” At the Social Media and Society 2014, Toronto, Canada.

October 2-3, 2013 “Microblogging as a personal voice and an identity tool in a community of ballet students.” At the Digital culture: Promises and discomforts, ECREA, Bonn, Germany.

April 10-12, 2013 "Self-praise and indirect complaints in Twitter" (Poster). At the Twitter and microblogging: Political, professional and personal practices, Lancaster University, UK.

November 7, 2012 "Twitter as a means of class participation" At the Media innovations workshop, Oslo, Norway.

September 28, 2012 "Speech act of self-praise in ballet students' Twitters" At Forum Junge Englische Linguistik, Augsburg, Germany.

September 23, 2011 "Reference in microblogging." At Forum Junge Englische Linguistik, Eichstätt, Germany.

December 7-8, 2010 "Orality and literacy in verbal duelling." At The 6th Cambridge postgraduate conference in language research, Cambridge, UK.

July 1-2, 2010 "Yo momma's so stupid: politeness and politic behaviour in dozens." At The 5th International Symposium on Politeness, Basel, Switzerland.

May 13-16, 2010 "What are you, Windows 98? - Playing the dozens in 21 century." At GNEL/ASNEL "Contested communities: communication, narration, imagination", Bayreuth, Germany.