34.2986, Summer Schools: English(es) as a Moving Target: Exploring Online Data and Online Processing / Germany

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Subject: 34.2986, Summer Schools: English(es) as a Moving Target: Exploring Online Data and Online Processing / Germany

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Date: 10-Oct-2023
From: Sofia Rüdiger [webmaster at isle-linguistics.org]
Subject: English(es) as a Moving Target: Exploring Online Data and Online Processing / Germany


English(es) as a Moving Target: Exploring Online Data and Online
Processing

Host Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Website: https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/abteilungen/sprachwisse
nschaft/isle_summerschool24

Dates: 22-Jul-2024 - 27-Jul-2024
Location: Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg

Focus: The 2024 Summer School of the International Society for the
Linguistics of English takes place between the 22nd and 27th of July
2024. It is hosted by the Department of English of the University of
Freiburg and is organized by ISLE President Bernd Kortmann.

The 2024 theme of the summer school is "English(es) as a Moving
Target: Exploring Online Data and Online Processing". A short
introduction video to the summer school can be found on our YouTube
channel: https://youtu.be/_3HSwwtExhA

The following courses are offered at the ISLE 2024 Summer School:
Exploring cross-varietal diversity in online language comprehension
(Alice Blumenthal-Dramé, Freiburg), Cognitive Construction Grammar and
online processing (Martin Hilpert, Neuchâtel), Studying linguistic
innovation with online data (Jack Grieve, Birmingham), Digital social
network analysis: Studying diffusion of innovation in online data
(Mikko Laitinen, Joensuu), Visualizing forests, not trees: Aggregate
varietal comparison (John Nerbonne, Groningen), Englishes on the move:
Focus on digital and diasporic settings (Mirka Honkanen & Axel
Bohmann, Freiburg), Post-digital ethnography: Multimodality, mobility,
and polymedia (Agnieszka Lyons, London), Language abuse in the digital
age (Isobelle Clarke, Lancaster).

The summer school also features four keynotes and three panel
discussions.
Keynotes:
 Alice Blumenthal-Dramé: “Operationalizing constructionhood in online
processing research”
 Isobelle Clarke: “Comparing the discourses across anti-science
websites”
 Jack Grieve: “The language of fake news”
 Mikko Laitinen: “Societal big data in English linguistics: Potential,
limitations, and challenges”

Panel discussions:
“Research ethics” (Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger)
“Linguistics meets AI” (Jack Grieve & John Nerbonne)
“Online data, online processing and the future of English linguistics”

Other highlights include expert consultancy sessions for PhD students
and postdocs, poster sessions for PhD students, and a rich social
programme.

The summer school can be attended on site and virtually (details on
virtual attendance can be found on the website).
Minimum Education Level: BA

Description:
This summer school aims to bring together innovative theoretical and
methodological perspectives on online language, where ‘online’ can be
interpreted in different, but complementary (and potentially
intersecting) ways:

1. Focus on language use on the web (comprising, among other things,
the specifics of computer-mediated discourse, computer-human
interaction, hate speech, network modelling, identities and varieties
on the web, etc.)

2. Focus on language processing in real time in the human mind: e.g.,
how do readers/listeners comprehend the incoming stream of language
and integrate it with their pre-existing knowledge? How do
writers/speakers plan, execute and amend the language production
process, and how are all these processes modulated by variables like
linguistic background (multilingualism, variety type, typological
features of the language) and medium (e.g., face-to-face vs.
electronic)?

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 30-Nov-2023
The International Society for the Linguistics of English is proud to
offer a limited number of partial bursaries for Postgraduate Students
/ Early Career Researchers who wish to attend the Summer School in
person.

Applications from non-faculty scholars who have already earned their
PhD are accepted; however, please note that priority will be given to
those who have not yet earned their PhD.

Furthermore, ISLE is conscious that some groups are significantly
underrepresented in English linguistics and it would enrich those
fields as well as society to remedy such imbalances. As such, we will
hold matters of diversity, inclusion, and access at the forefront of
our selection process.

The bursary consists of a fixed sum to partly cover the tuition fee,
travel cost and accommodation. In the case a travel bursary is
granted, participants will receive a lump-sum payment of (maximally,
dependent on individual circumstances) EUR 350 (for participants from
Europe) or EUR 700 (for participants from non-European countries).
Participants will be reimbursed after appropriate documentation of
travelling costs and banking details have been provided to the ISLE
treasurer at treasurer at isle-linguistics.org.

Financial Aid Instructions:
Details of how to apply, which documents to provide and where to send
them are all provided in the ISLE Bursary information sheet, available
at https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/abteilungen/sprachwissenschaf
t/isle_summerschool24/bursaries

Registration: 01-Oct-2023 to 01-Jun-2024

Contact Person: Bernd Kortmann
                Email: ISLE_SummerSchool2024 at anglistik.uni-freiburg.de




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