The Interactional Variation Online (IVO) Project is creating a researcher network with monthly get-togethers. This network will bring together postgraduates and researchers interested in sharing insights into applications of corpus linguistics, corpus compilation and methods, multimodal corpus analysis, institutional and professional discourse and virtual meetings. 

We aim for these sessions to be informal gatherings full of rich discussion with the sharing of ideas and resources leading to collaborative engagement and combined research.  

  • Session 1: This first session provided an overview of the Interactional Variation Online project and started to set out a plan for the progression of this network (18/2/22). 
  • Session 2: Christoph Ruehlemann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Paper entitled: Outlines of the Freiburg Multimodal Interaction Corpus (25/3/22). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel.
  • Session 3: Sandrine Peraldi, University College Dublin. Paper entitled: Terminological creativity: a corpus-driven approach (22/04/22). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel.
  • Session 4: Ursula Lutzky, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Paper entitled: We’re not an airline but we do fly planes’. Approaches to communication in the Covid-19 crisis (20/05/22).
  • Session 5: Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin. Paper entitled: Perspective taking, partner models and language production in speech interface interaction (16/09/22). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel.
  • Session 6: Gail Flanagan, University of Limerick. Paper entitled: Business discourse in the Irish technology sector: Focusing on the Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) skills of Irish English speakers in International Virtual Teams (IVTs) (21/10/22). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel.
  • Session 7: Gerard O’Hanlon, Mary Immaculate College. Paper entitled: A corpus-informed approach to multimodal pragmatics: insights from a case study of request sequences in B2 spoken language on Zoom (18/11/22). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel.
  • Session 8: Stefan Diemer, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Paper entitled: Multimodal meaning making in ELF video-mediated conversations.
  • Session 9: Almut Koester, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Paper entitled: Exploring workplace creativity through corpus linguistics (21/04/23). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel. The slides for this talk are available here.
  • Session 10: Muireann Prendergast, South East Technological University, Waterford campus. Paper entitled: Global crisis, local responses: A multimodal discourse analysis of editorial cartoons in Ireland and Argentina during the Covid-19 pandemic. To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel. The slides for this talk are available here.
  • Session 11: Michaela Rusch. Paper entitled: Opening up new perspectives – Combining Multimodal and multilingual aspects in corporate communication. To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube Channel.
  • Session 12: Michael Handford, Cardiff University. Paper entitled: Workplace creativity: inherently a good thing? To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube channel.
  • Session 13: Lucy Osler, Cardiff University, 15th December 2023 at 10am. Paper entitled: Envy, digital technology, and me (15/12/23). To watch a recording of this talk, visit the IVO YouTube Channel.  
  • Session 14: details coming soon

For more information, and/or to join the Researcher Network mailing list, contact: [email protected]