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.miola@unipv.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
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.
Click here for the programme of the Workshop.
Click here for the Abstracts of Presentations.
The Organizing Committee
(Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, Paolo Ramat, Andrea Sansò)
LETiSS announces the International Spring School 2011 on
EUROPE BEYOND EUROPE: NEW HORIZONS ON PIDGINS AND CREOLES
(Pavia, 18-22 April 2011)
The aim of the school is to enhance dialogue among young linguists interested in the topics announced in the title, under the guide of leading specialists. This is why the number of participants has been limited (see below), in order to facilitate interactions among them.
When and where
The Spring School will last one week, from Monday 18 until Friday 22 April 2011, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia (viale Lungo Ticino Sforza 56, 27100 Pavia, Italy – www.iusspavia.it). Normal 0 false 14 false false false IT X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
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