LINGUIST List 17.2847

Sun Oct 01 2006

Qs: Online IM/Chat Corpora; Language Acquisition

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Matthew Garley, Online IM/Chat Corpora
        2.    Chiara Vettori, Language Acquisition


Message 1: Online IM/Chat Corpora
Date: 28-Sep-2006
From: Matthew Garley <mgarley2uiuc.edu>
Subject: Online IM/Chat Corpora


Hello!Does anyone know of a corpus or corpora consisting mainly of online chat orIM? I'm doing a project on the formulaicity of online speech, so I'mlooking for synchronous (not blogs/e-mail) online communication. I'velooked through the LL corpus list, as well as the offerings of the LDC, buthaven't found anything like this.

Thank you!Matt GarleyGraduate Student, Linguisticsmgarley2uiuc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics                             Sociolinguistics                             Text/Corpus Linguistics
Message 2: Language Acquisition
Date: 27-Sep-2006
From: Chiara Vettori <cvettorieurac.edu>
Subject: Language Acquisition


We're planning a project about language diffusion in South Tyrol, focusingon collocation acquisition in well-known communication situations.The basic idea is to turn the town into an *open air school* where drawings+ collocations in three languages (Italian, German and South tyroleandialect(s)) embody some communication situations [we looked at Americanbumper stickers's potential].

Has anyone already done something similar? And could you please give mesome bibliographical references about this topic (in part. about the roleof collocations/visual stimuli in language acquisition)?Many thanks in advanceChiara Vettori

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition