AUT, Auckland 2017
Invited Talks & Workshops
2024 – ‘Academic Career Journey’. CRELLA PGR workshop. Online.
2023-2025 – ‘Mixed methods & triangulation in second language pragmatics research’. CRELLA PGR workshop. Online.
2022 – Relevance in the L2 listener’s mind: from exposure to prosodic pointing to pragmatic competence development. CRELLA. Online.
2021 – Relevance theory and L2 inferential comprehension: a multimodal approach to pragmatic development in L2 listeners. The Relevance Researchers’ Network. Online. Watch it here. Pauline Madella (Bedfordshire) – Relevance Researchers’ Network
2021 – ‘Holistic and Inclusive Approaches to Teaching L2 English Pronunciation and Prosody Online’, Teaching Englishes webinar, Middlesex University.
Conference Talks
2026 – Coming up: International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics (IAFLL) Conference in June 2026
2025 – Applying the lessons from second language test validity frameworks to tests of English as a first language. Language Testing Forum (LTF), co-presented with Latimer, N., Chan, S., and Nakatsuhara, F., University of Southampton, UK.
IPrA2025 IPC19 Brisbane 2025 – International Pragmatics Association
2024 – “I was so afraid all you wanted from me was sex’: A corpus-assisted study in the pragmatics of manipulation in online child sexual groomers’ discourse”, University of Bedfordshire’s Annual Research Conference, Luton.
2024 – ” Could we BE more white trash?” Prosodic and nonverbal cues to Chandler Bing’s sarcasm: where pragmatic and conversation analysis meet. EPICS XI 11th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla.
2021 – Beyond Language: a multimodal approach to pragmatic development in L2 listeners. Linguistics and Knowledge About Language in Education (LKALE) BAAL SIG event, Glasgow, UK (online).
2020 – Making sense of Nonsense Literature: when Pragmatics and Literary Studies meet in the English classroom. UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL): English Linguistics and Diversity Awareness, Madrid, Spain.
2018 – A relevance-based approach to L2 listening instruction: developing pragmatic competence through awareness of prosody and gesture. BAAL Taking Risks in Applied Linguistics, York, UK.
2018 – Prosodic Pointing in inferential comprehension: the application of Relevance Theory to L2 listening instruction. Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA), Nicosia, Cyprus.
2017 – Relevance Theory and the prosody-pragmatics interaction: a cognitive-pragmatic approach to L2 listening instruction. The Applied Linguistics Conference (ALANZ), Auckland, NZ.
2017 – The pragmatics of prosodic pointing: from enhanced cognitive abilities to social competence in L2 listeners. 2nd International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL): Language in Society, Madrid, Spain.
2017 – Prosodic and gestural pointing: multi-modality in action. Beyond Meaning, Athens, Greece.
Pauline Madella, PhD 