Magda Stroinska
McMaster University, Canada
Biography
Magda Stroinska is Professor of German and Linguistics at McMaster University in Hamilton On, Canada. Her major areas of research include sociolinguistics and cross-cultural pragmatics, in particular cultural stereotyping, language and politics, propaganda, the issues of identity in exile, aging and bilingualism. More recent areas of interest and research focus on language and psychological trauma. She co-edited a number of books, most recently Unspeakable: Narratives of trauma (with Vikki Cecchetto and Kate Szymanski, Peter Lang 2014).
Abstract
Abstract : Keep the conversations going! Gricean maxims in the Old age