[lg policy] Fwd: VAR-L Digest - 9 Dec 2014 to 12 Dec 2014 (#2014-15)

Harold Schiffman haroldfs at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 15:48:21 UTC 2014 

Online: Kidko-- Urban German Youth Language

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  VAR-L Digest - 9 Dec 2014 to 12 Dec 2014 (#2014-15) Table of contents:

   - KiDKo: online corpus, urban German youth language
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   - Language and mediality - lecturer sought <#14a40fbc4ce0060b_S2>


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      *From:* George Walkden <george.walkden at MANCHESTER.AC.UK>


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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
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New resource on youth language in urban contexts: Corpus with speech 
data on German "Kiezdeutsch"

We are pleased to announce the launch of KiDKo ("KiezDeutsch Korpus"), a 
new corpus based on spontaneous conversations among young people in Berlin.

KiDKo is a multi-modal digital corpus of spontaneous discourse data from 
informal, oral peer group situations in multi- and monoethnic speech 
communities. It offers a new empirical resource for research in such 
domains as:

- Kiezdeutsch as a new, multiethnic dialect of German

- youth language in urban areas

- linguistic developments in contemporary German

- informal language use

KiDKo contains audio data from self-recordings, with aligned 
transcriptions and annotations, for automatic linguistic queries at 
different levels. It can be accessed through ANNIS, an open-source 
platform that supports browser-based search and visualization of corpus 
data.

The corpus has been developed within the Potsdam/Berlin Special Research 
Area 632 "Information Structure", with support from the German Research 
Fundation (DFG).

KiDKo is available to other research groups via a website: 
www.kiezdeutschkorpus.de <http://www.kiezdeutschkorpus.de>

(Transcriptions and annotations are accessible online, the audio data 
can be accessed locally.)

Heike Wiese, Ines Rehbein

University of Potsdam

SFB 632 & Centre "Language, Variation, and Migration"

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Prof. Dr. Heike Wiese
Universität Potsdam
Institut für Germanistik und Zentrum "Sprache, Variation und Migration"
Lehrstuhl Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam

Tel. +49-331-977 4222
Fax: +49-331-977 4245

www.uni-potsdam.de/ger_wiese/


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Dear all,

LEL at the University of Manchester is urgently looking for someone to teach a third-year module on Language and Mediality as a one-off next semester. Details are below. If you’re interested, please contact the head of department Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen <Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk>> directly.

Best,

 - George

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From: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen <Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk>>
Subject: [LEL-LECTURERS] URGENT: Replacement for Iris - mailing lists?
Date: 12 December 2014 13:29:58 GMT
To: <LEL-LECTURERS at listserv.manchester.ac.uk<mailto:LEL-LECTURERS at listserv.manchester.ac.uk>>
Reply-To: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen <Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk>>

Course title:  LELA31072 Language and Mediality

Credits: 20

Hours:  22 hours of teaching in Semester 2 (end of January till mid May), plus 3-4 MA tutorials (1 hour each).  Although at present weekly 2hr lectures are scheduled, it will be possible to deliver the course in a smaller number of intensive chunks instead.

Support:  There will be full GTA support for seminars and marking.  A full set of course materials will be provided.

Number of students expected: approx. 85 (3rd year undergraduate and MA)

Course description:
Much of the language we encounter in our daily lives is mediated, i.e. it is articulated by another element or, in other words, it is brought to us through channels other than spontaneous speech in face-to-face interactions. We can think about written language as mediated through the writing system, but spoken language can also be mediated, for example, by technological ways of transmission such as radio or telephone. In the case of writing, mediation has become so natural for many language users that they forget about it. In addition to that, language practice can involve complex layers of mediation when, for example, a lecture based on a written script and delivered with slides as visual aids for students is recorded and put online to be accessed by students outside the classroom.
In this course, we will look at ways, in which language has been mediated through different historical periods and in different cultures. The course aims to make you think about general processes of mediation and how they impact on language practices in and across speech communities. To this end, we will read and discuss theory and case studies from different historical periods and cultures to develop an understanding of the changing nature of processes of mediation and how they affect language. Moreover, students will learn to rethink their daily language practices in terms of mediality and to apply analytical tools in order to investigate current changes in language and mediality in the digital age.

Provisional outline:
•         Week 1: Introduction / Case study: Street protests in Brazil
•         Week 2: Theories: Writing as the arch-medium
•         Week 3: Theories: Natural Speech as a medium /Media neutrality in Linguistics
•         Week 4: Forms of writing and reading across cultures
•         Week 5: Forms of writing and reading across time
•         Week 6: Reading week
•         Week 7: Translation as mediation of concepts
•         Week 8: Broadcasting (early and later days)
•         Week 9: Writing voice (non-standard spelling)
•         Week 10: Language design in (audio-visual media)
•         Week 11: Computer-based communication
•         Week 12: Drawing it all together / final discussion

Indicative Reading:
•         Androutsopoulus, Jannis (ed.) (2006): Sociolinguistics and computer-mediated communication. Special Issue: Journal of Sociolinguistics 10 (4).
•         Crystal, David (2006): Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
•         Ian Hutchby (2001). Conversation and technology: from the telephone to the internet. Cambridge: Polity.
•         Johnson, Sally & Tommaso M. Milani (2010): Language ideologies and Media discourse: Texts, practice, politics. London: Continuum.
•         Sybille Krämer, 'Writing, Notational Iconicity, Calculus: On Writing as a Cultural Technique'. MLN 118 (3), 518-37
•         Kress, Gunther (2010): Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication. London/ New York: Routledge.

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Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Professor, PhD, dr.phil.
Head of Division, Linguistics and English Language
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Academic profile<http://staffprofiles.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/Profile.aspx?Id=Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen>
Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters<http://www.royalacademy.dk/>
Editor of Revue Romane<https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/rro/main> and Studies in Pragmatics<http://www.brill.com/publications/studies-pragmatics>

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