Wednesday 3th October 8,00-9,00 HALL REGISTRATION (Also Tuesday 2th October 17,00 -19,30) 9,00-10,00 AULA BLU CONFERENCE OPENING AND PRESENTATION Welcome by Prof. Michele Corsi, Dean of the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism János Sándor Petöfi, Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli: “Conference origins and aims” CHAIRPERSONS SESSIONS AULA VIOLA Leonor Scliar-Cabral RELIGION SESSIONS AULA ROSSA Gill Philip SPECIFIC LANGUAGES SESSIONS AULA GIALLA Alessandro Antonietti MEDIA SESSIONS AULA BLU Agnès Celle FRENCH SESSION (oral communications French) [LITERATURE] in 10,00 Salvato Lucia Amelia, Marsili Neri, The The communication of concealment of certainty and certainty and uncertainty uncertainty in assertions within Gospel dialogues Pellegrino Elisa, Salvati Luisa, The expression of certainty and uncertainty in social communication campaigns 10,30 Scardigno Rosa, Mininni Giuseppe, Rhetorics of (un)certainty in religious discourse Giancaspro Maria Luisa, Manuti Goga Yvonne, Paul Guimard, Amelia, Talking about us: hedges as entre humour et ironie uncertainty markers in organizational discourse 11,00-11,30 Merdanova Solmas, Yavetskiy Alexey, Evidentiality and the communication of certainty in Indo-European and NakhDaghestanian languages Degani Salah, The stakes of the communication through the sets of the certainty and the uncertainty in the written dialogue coffee break 1 CHAIRPERSONS Giuseppe Mininni MUSIC Elisabeth Leiss SPECIFIC LANGUAGES Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu MEDIA Aurore Van de Winkel FRENCH SESSION (oral communications French) [LITERATURE] in 11,30 Caterina Roberto, Incasa Harmes Ingeborg, Should I? Clark Caroline, Acknowledging Mitu Mihaela, The Iolanda, Certainty and doubt A linguistic analysis of the knowledge in media discourse: a representation of in musical expressions Dutch auxiliary 'zou' study of evidentiality (un)certainty in Robinson’s Universe of Beliefs 12,00 Curinga Luisa, «Muß es sein? Helmer Henrike, Reineke El Saj Hala, Discourse Analysis of Mustatea Alexandrina, Es muß sein!». Certainty and Silke, Coding (un)certainty: mood structures in Oprah Winfrey Pangloss’s “Certainties” uncertainty in Music displaying epistemic stance Show by glauben and wissen 12,30 Heimonen Panu, Dialogue in Beethoven’s “An die Ferne Geliebte”: epistemic perspectives on communication Colella Gianluca, Riccioni Ilaria, Canestrari Carla, Bongelli Ramona, Zuczkowski Andrzej, “Come se” [As if]: evidential and epistemic aspects Meier Simon, Hauser Stefan, Formulaic authentication of selfassessments in German media interviews Zarnescu Crina-Magdalena, The drama of modern consciousness between knowledge and truth lunch 13,00-14,00 PLENARY SESSION Elisabeth Leiss, Modes of modality in an Un-Cartesian framework 14,00-15,00 AULA BLU chairwoman: Anita Fetzer CHAIRPERSONS Ilaria Riccioni LAW 15,00 Ponterotto Diane, Hedging Diana Barbara, in rape trial discourse Valentino, Isabella Poggi MULTIMODALITY Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu MEDIA Thierry Herman FRENCH SESSION (oral communications in French) Zurloni Antonietti Alessandro, Cantoia Lorda Clara Ubaldina, Miche Elia Manuela, Knowledge uncertainty: Elisabeth, Probability and 2 Massimiliano, Unmasking how epistemological beliefs are certainty markers in French prepared lies: a recurrent influenced by communication and in Spanish temporal pattern detection technology approach 15,30 16,00-16,30 CHAIRPERSONS Mininni Giuseppe, Scardigno Rosa, Grattagliano Ignazio, “It must be so”. The dialogic construction of (un)certainty in legal contexts Wollermann Charlotte, Scliar-Cabral Ethel Jane, ScliarSchröder Bernhard, Schade Cabral Leonor, KONY 2012, from Ulrich, Audiovisual prosody certainty into uncertainty of uncertainty: an overview Diane Ponterotto LAW Carla Canestrari MULTIMODALITY Salinas Agnès, Avram Carmen, Psycholinguistics management of uncertainty in the co-construction of the communication coffee break Giolo Fele COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION Yvonne Goga FRENCH SESSION (oral communications in French) Maglie Rosita Belinda, For Judge Kate, Epistemic uncertainty Mohamed Allayl, Ludwig the sake of appearances: the and the syntax of speech acts Wittgenstein. The persuasive multimodal communication view of (un)certainties in fashion advertising 16,30 Kasper Gabriele, Ross Steven, Tales of remembering and forgetting: social epistemics in US Senate Judiciary Committee hearings 17,00 Motta Monte-Serrat Dionéia, Verdiani Tfouni Leda, Equality as sense effect and uncertainties of the legal discourse Poggi Isabella, Vincze Laura, D’Errico Francesca, Multimodal communication of precision and vagueness Smith Sara, Jucker Andreas, ‘Maybe, but probably not’: negotiating likelihood and perspective Jaouad Zerrad, Nonverbal communication in professional perspective: the case of managers 17,30 Salas Camillia, Deschenaux Amélie, Towards a crystallization of the event’s certainty: “Formal Ricci Bitti Pio E., Bonfiglioli Luisa, Melani Paolo, Caterina Roberto, Garotti Pier Luigi, Facial expression Caronia Letizia, What if uncertainty is the data? Pursuing statement-like responses as an epistemic resources in research interviews Mougenot Lucie, Learning motor communication at school: the communication of certainty and uncertainty. 3 Testimony” in the courtroom 18,00 18,45 -19,45 of doubt Savino Michelina, Matera Grazia, Mininni Giuseppe, Perceiving speaker’s (degree of) certainty in spoken discourse: the role of intonation Example in team sport Davitti Elena, Exploring shifts in the Sebkhi Habiba, The modal communication of certainty and operators in the fantasy uncertainty via upgrading renditions genre: an empty shell? in dialogue interpreting RECTOR AND MAYOR WELCOME AND DRINKS RECEPTION 4 Thursday 4th October PLENARY SESSION Jan Nuyts, Notions of subjectivity 9,00-10,00 AULA BLU chairman: Andrzej Zuczkowski CHAIRPERSONS 10,00 10,30 11,00-11,30 CHAIRPERSONS 11,30 SESSIONS AULA VIOLA Paola Nicolini THEORY OF MIND SESSIONS AULA ROSSA Christoph Schubert POLITICS SESSIONS AULA GIALLA Rafael Jiménez Cataño ITALIAN SESSION (oral communications in Italian) De Iaco Moira, The certainty of the Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu Liliana, Massimi Marina, Ego, the doubt about the Other Strategic uses of certainty Persuasive communication and uncertainty in a and construction of political debate certainty in colonial Brazil SESSIONS AULA BLU Norbert Dittmar GERMAN SESSION (oral communications in German) Bucciarelli Paola, Berthold Christine, Zuczkowski Andrzej, Cantarini Sibilla, Uncertainty linguistic markers in a corpus of biomedical articles in German language Passanisi Alessia, Di Nuovo Santo, Constantinescu Mihaela- Croce Michel, Subjective Cavagnoli Stefania, The language of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Viorica, Conveying certainty, testimony and the law as expression of power pragmatic impairments certainty and uncertainty in knowledge: ordinary the Romanian context and philosophical parliamentary debates context Roberto Caterina HUMOUR Stame Stefania, Anita Fetzer POLITICS coffee break Klaus Hölker SPECIFIC LANGUAGES Sibilla Cantarini GERMAN SESSION (oral communications in German) What’s Reber Elisabeth, “Obama Janssens Karolien, Nuyts Hoffmann Sabine, Measuring 5 conversational humor got to do with said it”. Quotations as Jan, The diachrony of the something that cannot be grasped. humor? evidentials in online Dutch idiom me dunkt ‘me Reflections about spoken comments thinks’ competence 12,00 Fleury Arnaud, The paradox of the Roibu Melania, Uta Oana, rain and the weather Discursive un/certainty aimed at manipulating opinions. A case study Kaiser Anna, Cognitive Katelhön Peggy, Linguistic coding of verbs at the interface of sources of information: evidential epistemic modality and markers in German and Italian evidentiality 12,30 Matsuoka Rieko, Smith Ian, Ştefănescu Ariadna, Forms Linguistic relativity and universality and strategies of political of zero-pronouns in rakugo discourse evidentials translation Kleiber Judit, Alberti Gábor, Uncertainty in polar questions and certainty in answers? 13,00-14,00 lunch 14,00-15,00 AULA BLU POSTER SESSION (see poster titles and author names on the final page) Dittmar Norbert, Parentheses commenting discourse segments: epistemic meaning and interactive function CHAIRPERSONS Pietro Boscolo SCIENTIFIC WRITING 15,00 Buldorini Cinzia, Bongelli Ramona, Riccioni Ilaria, Canestrari Carla, Pietrobon Ricardo, Zuczkowski Andrzej, A corpus of biomedical texts annotated for uncertainty with a historical perspective Sandvik Margareth, The epistemicity of broken promises in political discourse Fetzer Anita, Evidentiality Molteni Marzia, Sbattella Fabio, in context - or how to Tettamanzi Marilena Social import ‘evidence’ into emergency representations (English) discourse 15,30 Oliver del Olmo Sonia, Certainty and uncertainty across disciplines and languages in book reviews Schubert Christoph, Evidentiality in White House Press briefings: a discourse-analytical approach Hölker Klaus, Knowledge, belief, certainty, and Indirect interrogatives in a pragmatic capacity Elisabeth Reber POLITICS Bruce Fraser SPECIFIC LANGUAGES Marina Mizzau ITALIAN SESSION (oral communications in Italian) Franchi Maura, Between truth and truthfulness. Certainty and uncertainty in the language of social networks 6 16,00-16,30 CHAIRPERSONS 16,30 Werner Abraham SCIENTIFIC WRITING coffee break Maria Pietronilla Penna Jan Nuyts LITERATURE COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION Pinto Maria da Graça, Osório Paulo, Dirtu Evagrina, The unlikely Martins Fernanda, A contribution to sure thing in magical realist tackling certainty and uncertainty in fiction science Alberti Gábor, Kleiber Judit, Ideal and deviant Interlocutors in a formal interpretation system Stefania Stame ITALIAN SESSION (oral communications in Italian) Gianfreda Gabriele, Volterra Virginia, Zuczkowski Andrzej, Expression of uncertainty in Italian Sign Language (LIS) 17,00 Tarantino Maria, Ethnopragmatic/axiological meaning strands in the modals of scientific texts Chiaretti Paula, Verdiani Fraser Bruce, Mediation Mizzau Marina, Markers Tfouni Leda, Syntax and and the uncertainty of uncertainty in novel Pêcheux’s 2nd illusion: an meaning analysis of self-help books’ discursive generics 17,30 Pic Elsa, Furmaniak Gregory, Questioning certainty: a case-study of modalised wh- questions Philip Gill, Bongelli Ramona, Canestrari Carla, Riccioni Ilaria, Zuczkowski Andrzej, Introducing, reinforcing and mitigating “Known, Unknown and Believed” in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 18,00 Romelli Katia, Frigerio Alessandra, Colombo Monica Giancarla Roberta, Constructing certainty through authoritativeness in psychiatric discourse: an analysis of DSM over time Sharma Sandeep, Certainly Gao Yanmei, Negotiating Jiménez Cataño Rafael, The scale uncertain: metaphorical certainty in post-to-post certain/uncertain in the politeness meaning in R K Naryan’s communication polarity clear/delicate The Guide 18,30-19,30 of Fele Giolo, Requesting help Machetti Sabrina, Vagueness, with null or limited uncertainty, certainty. Reflections on knowledge: entitlements native and non-native speakers and responsibility in emergency calls NETWORKING TIME 7 Friday 5th October 9,00-10,00 AULA BLU PLENARY SESSION Werner Abraham, (Inter)Subjectification or foreign consciousness / Other’s mind alignment as synchronic and diachronic concepts of change? Conceptualizations and data fidelity chairman: Vincenzo Lo Cascio SESSION AULA VIOLA CHAIRPERSONS Jörg Meibauer DECISION MAKING SESSION AULA ROSSA SESSION AULA GIALLO Maria Tarantino INTERACTION AT SCHOOL Etsuko Oishi SPECIFIC LANGUAGES SESSION AULA BLU Jac Conradie SECOND LANGUAGE CONTRASTIVE STUDIES AND 10,00 Matveeva Possibility uncertainty people's making Ekaterina, and in young decision Barros-Martínez Juan Fernando, Interaction in the classroom in a science learning process Pandarova Irina, Epistemic adverbs Artese Marina, Decision making in and pragmatic variation across Italian L2 university class interactions varieties of English 10,30 Nyan Thanh, Certainty, argumentation, and decision making Nicolini Paola, When uncertainty is a value: the case of observation processes in Developmental and Educational Psychology Philip Gill, Knowing and not Kawate-Mierzejewska Megumi, The knowing: expressing (un)certainty in concept of “complaints” in Japanese and English the Italian subjunctive 11,00-11,30 CHAIRPERSONS 11,30 Ramona Bongelli (UN)CERTAINTY ACROSS AGE Barbieri Maria Silvia, The expression of Amelia Manuti INTERACTION AT SCHOOL Förster certainty coffee break Franca Orletti COMMUNICATIVE INTERACTION Rosalie, Expressing and uncertainty in Yanmei Gao SECOND LANGUAGE CONTRASTIVE STUDIES AND Meibauer Jörg, Bullshitting and the Salvati Luisa, Persuasion pragmatic certainty/uncertainty dimension strategies in L1/L2 Italian 8 certainty/uncertainty in Italian speaking children parent-teacher conferences. Effects on legitimacy and role fulfillment 12,00 Nicolini Paola, Cherubini Luisa, Awareness of self through the analysis of cognitive verbs: a study on teens’ self report Tumino Raffaele, Do not seduced by words. A reading the educational values "certainty" and "uncertainty" the human formation be on of in Paul Christine, The epistemic and Slootmaekers An, To what extent the functional side of retrospective non-linguistic features create utterances uncertainty when constructing the meaning of an oral discussion in a foreign language? 12,30 Muntigl Peter, Hoedl Stephanie, Ransmayr Gerhard, Managing insufficient knowledge with frontotemporal dementia Castillejos López Willelmira, Linguistic insecurity of higher education students Van de Winkel Aurore, The defence Ahlsén Elisabeth, Allwood Jens, of the rumour : between certainty D’Errico Francesca, Poggi Isabella, and uncertainty markers Vincze Laura, Intercultural differences in the lexicon of vagueness and approximation 13,00-14,00 CHAIRPERSONS argumentative speech lunch Flavia Stara PHILOSOPHY Vincenzo Lo Cascio ACADEMIC/INSTITUTIO NAL DISCOURSE Renata Galatolo DOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION Stefania Cavagnoli SECOND LANGUAGE CONTRASTIVE STUDIES 14,00 Klein Gabriella B., Dossou Koffi M., Pasquandrea Sergio, Embodying epistemicity: the role of objects in institutional interaction Baruzzo Mattia, Alby Francesca, Boncompagni Anna, On trying to Zucchermaglio Cristina say what ‘goes without saying’ Decisional practices in medicine between polyphonic narratives and small talks Celle Agnès, Lansari Laure, Uncertainty as a result of unexpectedness 14,30 Boscolo Pietro, References in academic discourse as a means of constructing/communic ating certainty Fatigante Marilena, Orletti Franca, Chiffi Daniele, A pragmatic Bafaro Saverio, Giving advice to framework for hypothetical pregnant patients: strategic uses of reasoning in decision making certainty/ uncertainty Conradie Jac, From adverbs of time to modals of certainty and uncertainty AND 9 15,00 15,30 Emeksiz Zeynep Erk, Turan Umit Deniz, Uzun Gülsün Leyla, Epistemic stance markers and certainty in Turkish academic discourse Pasquandrea Sergio, Negotiated Gili Luca, Aristotle and Alexander on epistemicity: assessments in the truth of temporal modal interpreter-mediated healthcare sentences interaction Torrent Aina, Evidentiality, subjectivity and grammaticalisation: Spanish idioms and their German translation Velea Adina, Linguistic formulations of (un)certainty in Romanian meeting talk Gavioli Laura, Baraldi Claudio, Verducci Daniela, The certainty of Doctors’ questions and uncertainty being alive. A transcendental in healthcare interpreter-mediated condition of communication? interaction Fu Tzu-Keng, On Translation of linguistic-dependent institutional facts 16,00-16,30 CHAIRPERSONS coffee break Jens Allwood Marilena Fatigante Francesco Orilia ARGUMENTATION AND DOCTOR-PATIENT INTERACTION PHILOSOPHY PERSUASION 16,30 Lo Cascio Vincenzo, Galatolo Renata, Margutti Piera, Laktionova Anna, Certainty and Counter-argumentation Cirillo Letizia, The co-construction knowledge and modality of the observable and the evaluation activity in specialist visits conducted by a team of practitioners Oishi Etsuko, discourse 17,00 De Conti Manuele, Pino Marco, Epistemic struggles: Undermining absolute how knowledge distribution certainty in debate matters in healthcare interactions contexts Penna Maria Pietronilla, Agus Mirian, Peró-Cebollero Maribel, Guàrdia-Olmos Joan, Pessa Eliano, The application of graphical representations in estimation of probabilistic events Schrickx Josine, Latin commitmentmarkers 17,30 Dufour Michel, The use Ticca Anna Claudia, Decision Stara Flavia, Phenomenology of of explanation as a making in the medical consultation: certainty and belief. Reading mark of certainty in an interactional approach William James Topka Larisa V., Uncertainty: pragma-semantic aspect of research Sara Smith SPECIFIC LANGUAGES Evidentials in 10 argumentative dialog 18,00 Hutton Nancy, Certainty/Uncertainty: women’s persuasive strategies regarding the “Woman Question” 18,30 Herman Thierry, From Muntigl Peter, Horvath Adam, arguments appealing to Negotiating epistemic stance in authority to family therapy authoritarian assertions 19,00-19,30 AULA BLU Plastina Anna Franca, Del Vecchio Russo Luca, Uncertainty and Fabrizia, Diagnostic news delivery: underdetermination of indexical a micro-analysis of the use of terms: an inferential approach shields Bailin Sharon, Battersby Mark, Argumentation, warranted judgment and the communication of certainty/uncertainty Turan Ümit Deniz, Certainty adverbs and evidential perfectives in Turkish Zubeldia Larraitz, The Basque reportative particle ‘omen’: certainties and uncertainties CONFERENCE CLOSE 11 POSTERS Canestrari Carla, Dionigi Alberto, Zuczkowski Andrzej, Humor comprehension and knowledge. What is the relationship between them? Cantarini Sibilla, The expression of certainty/uncertainty and the “attenuated” use of negation in Italian and German interrogative constructions Majmutova Saniya, Acquisition of Russian grammar cases by Spanish-speaking students Pavy Adriana Isabel, Ziegler Mónica Beatriz, Teacher learners’ beliefs about certainty and uncertainty in communication Polenta Stefano, Certainty and Uncertainty in pedagogical counselling Riccioni Ilaria, Lo Bue Silvia, Bongelli Ramona, Zuczkowski Andrzej, Uncertainty and hedging in “troubles talk” situations: the giving advice activity Scopesi Alda Maria, Rosso Anna Maria, Viterbori Paola, Panchieri Erika, Mental vocabulary and markers of uncertainty in childhood and preadolescence Sievers Miriam, Uncertainty in a conditioned world. Certainty in the unconditional Toni Marino, Journalistic strategies in health information: the case H1N1 flu Verdiani Tfouni Leda, Carvalho Pereira Anderson, Salvador Mosca Lineide, The uncertainty of saying and otherness: uses of epistemic modality 12