LINGUIST List 22.5008 Mon Dec 12 2011 Confs: Socioling, Pragmatics, General Ling/Italy Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Emanuele Miola , Languages Go Web Message 1: Languages Go Web Date: 12-Dec-2011 From: Emanuele Miola <emanuele.miolaunipv.it> Subject: Languages Go Web E-mail this message to a friend Languages Go Web Date: 04-Apr-2012 - 05-Apr-2012 Location: Pavia, Italy Contact: Emanuele Miola Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/centri.php?id=23&sez=2 Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: LETiSS announces the Workshop on: Languages Go Web: Standard and Non-Standard Languages on the Internet 4-5 April 2012 Aula Magna – IUSS V.le Lungo Ticino Sforza 56 Pavia – Italy Contact and information: emanuele.miolaunipv.it Introduction: The 2nd International Workshop organized by the LETiSS Centre (Languages of Europe – Typology, History and Sociolinguistics) will be held in Pavia from Wednesday, April 4th to Thursday, April 5th 2012. Under the guide of leading specialists, the event will tackle and address the various and challenging issues related to the topic “Language in/and Computer-Mediated Communication”, with special regards to - Morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics of Netspeak - Sociolinguistically relevant phenomena of Netspeak - The use of the web as a corpus for linguistic research - Grammaticalization and other linguistic phenomena of European web communities' language - Non-standard and minority languages on the Internet - Graphic and orthographic aspects of languages on the web: from l33t to emoticons and beyond The Workshop language will be English and will include contribution by (in alphabetical order): Matteo Casoni Massimo Cerruti & Cristina Onesti Kristin Davidse Giuliana Fiorentino Susan C. Herring Adam Kilgarriff Emanuele Miola Andrea Moll Máiréad Moriarty Mirko Tavosanis Christiana Themistocleous Sue Wright Please note that no tuition fee is required! Further details will follow in due time. We would be grateful to receive your manifestation of interest. The Organizing Committee: (Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, Paolo Ramat, Andrea Sansò) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Dec-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.