Messerli, Thomas C., Moser-Frötscher, Doris, Roderer, Thomas, Kuster, Wilfrid, & Egli-Cuenat, Mirjam (2024, February): Elucidation endeavours: Summary writing performances of pre-service English teachers. VALS ASLA Conference 2024, "Asymmetries and Inequalities in Language". Universität Bern, Switzerland. 12–13 February, 2024.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, November): Digital communication beyond trolls and fanboys: Norms and practices in Reddit communities. Invited lecture in the lecture series Kommunikation linguistisch analysieren: Sprache, Interaktion und Medien, organised by Martin Luginbühl. Basel, Switzerland. 1 November, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, November): Obversational comedy and comic observation – Pragmatics and streamed stand-up comedy specials. Invited lecture in MA seminar Methods of text and discourse analysis, organised by Daria Dayter. Tampere University, Finland. 30 November, 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, November): Evaluation and Computer-Mediated Communication: Reddit as a case in point. Invited lecture in the lecture series Sprache und Kommunikation: verbal, digital, multimodal, organised by Heike Behrens. Basel, Switzerland. 15 November, 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, November): Framing humour and non-humour in mediated comedy. Invited lecture in the lecture series Schmerz und Schmunzeln: die Verkörperung des Lachens, organised by Anne-Sophie Bories and Jérôme Laubner. Basel, Switzerland. 2 November, 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, October): Seriously Funny: The Margins of Humour in Netflix Stand-Up Comedy Specials. Keynote at II International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series. Valencia, Spain. 19–21 October 2022. Conference webpage.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, May): I Am What I See: Identities in Video-Oriented Comments. Invited lecture in the lecture series Online Selves – Self Online, organised by Daria Dayter and Sofia Rüdiger. Tampere, Finland, and online. 4 May, 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, March): On memes. Art-science talk on memes. Panel discussion at Istituto Svizzero. Milan, Italy, and online. 29 March 2022. Information and registration in Milan.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2021, April): Pragmatic Aspects of Telecinematic Writing. Project presentation. English department Research Colloquium. Basel, Switzerland. 20 April, 2021.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2021, November): Changed and unchanged views: A corpus of persuasive practices on the subreddit CMV. Invited lecture in the lecture series Linguistik im digitalen Zeitalter, organised by Heike Behrens. Basel, Switzerland, and online. 30 November, 2021.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2019, November): LovelyBooks – Bericht Team Basel. Conference paper. Workshop "Analyse von Bewertungspraktiken im Web: Perspektiven des Textminings, der Korpuspragmatik und der digitalen Literaturwissenschaft", University of Zürich, Switzerland. 21–22 November, 2019.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2019, November): Values on Lovelybooks . Conference paper. Workshop "Mining Goodreads", University of Verona, Italy. 13–15 November, 2019.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2019, October): Korpusbau aus dem Netz. Das LoBo als Praxisbeispiel. Guest lecture in Herrmann, J. Berenike, Korpusanalyse von Sprache und Kontext. Eine Einführung in Grundlagen und digitale Werkzeuge(seminar), Universität Basel, Switzerland. 2 October, 2019.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2018, December): Repetition in Sitcom Humour. Guest lecture in Langlotz, Andreas, Sociolinguistic and cognitive-linguistic approaches to humour(seminar), Universität Basel, Switzerland. 7 December, 2018.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2017, November): Repetitive Humour: Incongruities in US American Sitcoms. Guest lecture in Locher, Miriam, Pragmatics of Fiction (research seminar), Universität Basel, Switzerland. 14 November, 2017.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2017, November): Humour and Context. Guest lecture in Dayter, Daria, Discourse and Context (seminar), Universität Basel, Switzerland. 8 November, 2017.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2014, May): Humour in Telecinematic Discourse. Guest lecture in Locher, Miriam, Telecinematic Discourse (lecture), Universität Zürich, Switzerland. 21 May, 2014.
Dayter, Daria, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, July): (Im)politeness on written discussion websites: Relational work in Reddit-esque communication. Conference panel. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Brussels, Belgium. 9–14 July, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2023, July): It’s not what you are like, it’s what you like: Appraisal, stance and evaluation in online fandom'. Conference panel. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Brussels, Belgium. 9–14 July, 2023.
Pianzola, Federico, Viviani, Marco, Fossati, Alessandro, Boot, Peter, Fialho, Olivia, Koolen, Marijn, Neugarten, Julia, Van Hage, Willem Robert, Rebora, Simone, Hermann, J. Berenike, Messerli, Thomas C., Jorschick, Annett, & Sharma, Srishti (2022, July): Books’ Impact in Digital Social Reading: Towards a Conceptual and Methodological Framework. Conference panel. DH2022. Digital Humanities 2022. Tokyo, Japan, and online. 25–29 July 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, May): Towards an intercultural pragmatics of Reddit: Exploring subreddit cultures and communities. Conference panel. EPICS X 2022. International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics . Sevilla, Spain, and online. 23–25 May 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2021, June): Commenting while watching: Synchronous and pseudo-synchronous text-based engagement with and about audiovisual artefacts. Conference panel. 17th International Pragmatics Conference. Winterthur, Switzerland. 27 June – 2 July, 2021. Call for Papers.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter, Daria (2023, October): Topical and communicative expertise by original posters and commenters on the subreddit "Change My View". Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis 4 (ADDA 4). Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. 12–14 October, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, September): Comedy Beyond Humour: The Acquired Taste of Serious Stand-Up. Conference paper. Tasting Funny? A Conference on Humour and Taste. Basel, Switzerland. 14–16 September, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter, Daria (2023, July): Interpersonal function of concessives in the R/ChangeMyView argumentative discourse. Conference paper. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Brussels, Belgium. 9–14 July, 2023.
Locher, Miriam A., & Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, July): “OMG I ship them like crazy”: Acts of self-positioning through evaluations in Korean TV-drama fan comments. Conference paper. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Brussels, Belgium. 9–14 July, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter, Daria (2023, July): Interpersonal function of concessives in the R/ChangeMyView argumentative discourse. Conference paper. 14th Symposium of Politeness. (Im)politeness studies: new frontiers, synergies and perspectives. University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal. 3–5 July, 2023.
Moser-Fröscher, Doris, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, June): Meeting challenges in specifying and operationalizing the construct of teacher language competence: a balancing act. Conference poster. 19th EALTA Conference, Helsinki, Finland. 13–18 June, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, May): Cringe and refraction: Ambivalent comedians and their streamed comedy specials. Conference paper. The Pragmatics of Cringe Humor on the Screen and on Digital Media, Montpellier, France. 4–5 May, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2023, March): Cringe and ambivalence in streamed comedy specials. Conference paper. Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (SWELL) Conference 2023, Université de Genève, Switzerland. 10 March, 2023.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, December): Persuasion and Persuadability: Positioning of original poster opinions on R/changemyview as changeable. Conference paper. Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) - Diversity of Methods and Materials. Jyväskylä, Finland, 1–3 December 2022.
Dayter, Daria, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, November): Pragmatics of Persuasion on R/ChangeMyView. Conference papser. Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 2., Bayreuth, Germany and online. 18–19 November, 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, July): Change my view about language: Language awareness on the subreddit r/changemyview. Conference paper. SS24. Sociolinguistic Symposium 2022 – "Inside and beyond boundaries". Ghent, Belgium, and online. 13–16 July 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, July): Digital debating cultures: Communicative practices on Reddit. Conference panel. DH2022. Digital Humanities 2022. Tokyo, Japan, and online. 25–29 July 2022.
Locher, Miriam A., & Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, July): Conference paper. SS24. Sociolinguistic Symposium 2022 – "Inside and beyond boundaries". Ghent, Belgium, and online. 13–16 July 2022.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter Daria (2022, July): Share my view: Harmonious debating culture on r/changemyview. Conference paper. DH2022. Digital Humanities 2022. Tokyo, Japan, and online. 25–29 July 2022.
Dayter Daria, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2022, May): Pragmatics of persuasion on R/ChangeMyView. Conference paper. EPICS X 2022. International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics . Sevilla, Spain, and online. 23–25 May 2022.
Rebora, Simone, Messerli, Thomas C., & Herrmann, J. Berenike (2022, March): Towards a Computational Study of German Book Reviews. A Comparison between Emotion Dictionaries and Transfer Learning in Sentiment Analysis. Conference poster. DHd2022. Potsdam, Germany and online. 7–11 March 2022.
Herrmann, J. Berenike, Messerli, Thomas C., & Rebora, Simone (2021, September): Platformed literary reviewing: Computationelle Analysen von Wertungspraktiken auf Lovelybooks. Conference paper. Netzliteraturwissenschaft. Online-Konferenz im Rahmen der vDHd2021. 6–8 September, 2021.
Dayter, Daria, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2021, August): The persuasive dimension of register on the Change My View (CMV) subreddit. Conference paper. iCAMe42. Dortmund, Germany. 18–21 August, 2021.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2021, June): Contrastive analysis of English fan and professional subtitles of Korean Drama. Conference paper. 13th meeting of the international Symposium on (Im)Politeness and 7th meeting of the biannual iMean (interaction and meaning). Basel, Switzerland. 24–26 June, 2021.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2021, June): “This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Interaction within timed comments on the video streaming platform Viki. Conference paper. 17th International Pragmatics Conference. Panel: "Commenting while watching: Synchronous and pseudo-synchronous text-based engagement with and about audiovisual artefacts". Winterthur, Switzerland and online. 27 June – 2 July, 2021.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Dayter, Daria (2020, November). Role of Linguistic Formality in Persuasion. Conference paper. Conference Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language. Basel, Switzerland. 20–22 November, 2020.
Messerli, Thomas C., Rebora, Simone, & Herrmann, J. Berenike (2020, November): How Lovely is Your Book? A Computational Study of Literary Evaluation on a German Social Reading Platform. Conference paper. Digital Practices. Reading, Writing and Evaluation on the Web. Basel, Switzerland. 23–25 November, 2020.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2020, November): Joint K-Drama Viewing: Community building through fan subtitling and timed comments on Viki.com. Conference paper. TVSERIES 2020 (Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series). Valencia, Spain. 3–6 November, 2020.
Herrmann, J. Berenike, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2020, July): Metaphors we read by: Finding metaphorical conceptualizations of reading in web 2.0 book reviews. Conference paper. Digital Humanities Conference 2020: "carrefours/intersections". Ottawa, Canada and online. 22–24 July, 2020.
Herrmann, J. Berenike, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2020, March): ...hungere schon nach dem nächsten Band. Eine Untersuchung von Metaphern für Leseerfahrungen in Web 2.0 Literaturrezensionen. Conference paper. DHd2020: Spielräume – Digital Humanities zwischen Modellierung und Interpretation. 7. Jahrestagung des Verbands Digital Humanities im Deutschsprachigen Raum. Paderborn, Germany. 2–6 March, 2020.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam A. (2020, February): Positioning yourself as a Korean Drama fan online: Korean lexical borrowing in multilingual timed comments. Conference paper. VALS-ASLA 2020: Applied Linguistics in the Digital Age. University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 12-14 February, 2020.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Herrmann, J. Berenike (2020, February): Judge a book by its lover: Evaluation and sentiment in online lay book reviews. Conference paper. VALS-ASLA 2020: Applied Linguistics in the Digital Age. University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 12-14 February, 2020.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2019, July): Text-analysis after the Machine Learning Turn: Evaluation in online book reviews. Conference paper. 10th European Summer School in Digital Humanities "Culture & Technology", University of Leipzig, Germany. 23 July – 2 August, 2019.
Herrmann, J. Berenike, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2019, July): Where's your attention? An empirical assessment of Web 2.0 users' literary values. Conference paper. Digital Humanities Conference 2019, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 9–12 July, 2019.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2019, June): Writing about reading: Evaluation in online book reviews. Conference paper. Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2019, University of Birmingham, England. 24–28 June, 2019.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Locher, Miriam (2019, June): Lol while you watch: How participatory viewers do humour in comments on Korean TV drama. Conference Paper.16th International Pragmatics Conference, Panel "Creating and sharing public humour across the media," Hong Kong. 9–14 June, 2019.
Herrmann, J. Berenike, Messerli, Thomas C., Bubenhofer, Noah, & Knuchel, Daniel (2018, December): Is it all Like!? Studying Research Epistemologies in the Textual Humanities in Case Studies of Sentiment Analysis. Conference Poster. Digital Futures Network Day, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland. 4 December, 2018.
Herrmann, J. Berenike, Bubenhofer, Noah, Messerli, Thomas C., & Knuchel, Daniel (2018, November): Towards Textual Studies' High Tide? Studying Research Epistemologies in Digital Humanities after the Machine Learning Turn. Conference Poster. Workshop DARIAH-CH, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 29–30 November, 2018.
Messerli, Thomas C., Duman, Steve, & Sikos, Les (2018, July): From Screen to Voice: Evidence of changed perceptions of voice-based virtual assistants. Conference paper [held via Skype]. Interactions Multimodales par ECran (IMPEC) Conference 2018: The body and the screen. Laboratoire ICAR (CNRS, Université Lyon 2, ENS de Lyon), Lyon, France. 4-6 July, 2018.
Locher, Miriam, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2018, June): Participatory watching of telecinematic fiction in an international drama viewing platform. Conference paper. VALS-ASLA 2018: A Video Turn in Linguistics? Methodologie – Analisi – Applications. Universität Basel, Switzerland. 6-8 June, 2018.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Duman, Steve (2018, June): Linguistic and paralinguistic aspects of interaction with non-robotic Voice-User Interfaces. VALS-ASLA 2018: A Video Turn in Linguistics? Methodologie – Analisi – Applications. Universität Basel, Switzerland. 6-8 June, 2018.
Duman, Steve, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2018, March): Voice-based virtual assistants and metaphor. Conference paper. Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (SWELL) Conference 2018, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 23 March, 2018.
Locher, Miriam, & Messerli, Thomas C. (2018, March): Relational work and participation structures in interlingual subtitling from the perspective of pragmatics of fiction. Conference paper. 2018 George Town University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT): Approaches to Discourse. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA. 9-11 March, 2018.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2017, July): Subtitles and cinematic meaning-making: The participation framework of the subtitled film. Conference paper. 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Panel "Films in Translation – all is not lost: Pragmatics and Audiovisual Translation as Cross-cultural Mediation," Belfast, Northern Ireland. 16–21 July, 2017.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2017, July): Turn taking and the laugh track: the interactional role of the sitcom studio audience. Conference paper. 29th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies: An exploration of Humor's 'Je ne sais quoi?' Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. 10–14 July, 2017.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2017, July): Repetition as a constitutive force in sitcom humour. Conference paper. 29th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies: An exploration of Humor's 'Je ne sais quoi?' Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. 10–14 July, 2017.
Messerli, Thomas C., & Yu Di (2016, June): Multimodal construction of soccer-related humor on Twitter and Instagram. Conference paper. The Beautiful Game: The poetics and aesthetics of soccer in transnational perspective, Universität Basel, Switzerland. 30 June – 2 July, 2016.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2016, June): Laugh and laugh again: Repetition in sitcom humour. Conference paper. 28th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies: The world brings fools together – Humor as embodied practice, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 27 June – 1 July, 2016.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2016, March): Multilevel humour between television audiences, sitcom characters and collective senders: Conceptualising telecinematic discourse as ventriloquism. Conference paper. LAFAL 4 Symposium: Theoretical Issues in Humour – Building Bridges across Disciplines, University of Lodz, Poland. 17–18 March, 2016.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2016, March): Ventriloquist and dummy humour?: Transferring the notion of ventriloquism to telecinematic discourse. Conference paper. Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (SWELL) Conference 2016, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. 11 March, 2016.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2015, September): "Good day! I said good day!": Sitcom catchphrases as repeated incongruities. Conference paper. Language, Literature and Culture in a Changing Transatlantic World III, Presov University, Slovakia. 10–12 September, 2015.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2015, July): Multimodal repetition in telecinematic humour. Conference paper. 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Panel "How to do things with films – The pragmatics of telecinematic discourse," University of Antwerp, Belgium. 26–31 July, 2015.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2015, June): Clashing intentions and incongruities across layers of action: Humour within the participation structure of telecinematic discourse. Conference paper. 27th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA, USA. 29 June –3 July, 2015.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2014, July): Functions of Repetition in Telecinematic Humour. Conference paper. 26th Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands. 7–11 July, 2014.
Messerli, Thomas C. (2014, March): Repetition in Telecinematic Humour. Conference paper. Swiss Works in English Language and Linguistics (SWELL) Conference 2014, Universität Basel, Switzerland. 21 March, 2014.