LINGUIST List 23.1120: Confs: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, General Ling/Italy

LINGUIST List 23.1120
Tue Mar 06 2012 Confs: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, General Ling/Italy Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 04-Mar-2012 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) LETiSS International Workshop 'Languages Go Web' Pavia, 4-5 April 2012 Day 1 Session 1: Web, Society and Language 9.30-10.15 S ue Wright (University of Portsmouth) The Recurring Trinity: Language, Technology and Society 10.15-11.00 Máiréad Moriarty (University of Limerick) Irish Goes Viral!: Irish Language Recovery Via New Media Domains 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-12.15 Matteo Casoni (Osservatorio Linguistico della Svizzera Italiana) Vitality of Italian in Switzerland: Socio-economical Aspects of Languages through the Websites of Swiss Companies 12.15-13.00 Andrea Moll (Universität Freiburg) Cyber-Jamaican in CMC: Between Sociolinguistic Styling and Ethnolinguistic Repertoire 13.00-15.00 Lunch Session 2: Language Change and Variation on the Web 15.00-15.45 Kristin Davidse (KULeuven) Using Internet Data for the Study of Language Change: a Comparative Study of the Grammaticalized uses of English Sort (of) and French Genre (de) in Teenage Forum Data 15.45-16.30 Emanuele Miola (IUSS Pavia) >9000 volte lo stesso Thread: Small (Italian) Online Communities and Language Change 16.30-17.00 Coffee Break 17.00-17.45 Massimo Cerruti & Cristina Onesti (Università di Torino) Style Variation in Italian, with Particular Attention to Computer Mediated Communication 17.45-18.30 Susan C. Herring (Indiana University Bloomington) Special Internet Language Varieties: Culture, Creativity, and Language Change Day 2 Session 3: Linguists go Web: What They Do and What They Find 9.30-10.15 Adam Kilgarriff (University of Leeds) So Much of Everything 10.15-11.00 Giuliana Fiorentino (Università del Molise) The 'Wild Language' On the Web: New Writers, Old Problems and the Written Code Elaboration 11.00-11.30 Coffee Break 11.30-12.15 Mirko Tavosanis (Università di Pisa) Non-standard Rules: Innovation You Can Not Find in the Italian Web 12.15-13.00 Christiana Themistocleous (University of Reading) Writing in Romanised Cypriot Greek: CMC and beyond This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2012 site! http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/ There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! 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