17.2847, Qs: Online IM/Chat Corpora; Language Acquisition

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LINGUIST List: Vol-17-2847. Sun Oct 01 2006. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 17.2847, Qs: Online IM/Chat Corpora; Language Acquisition

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1)
Date: 28-Sep-2006
From: Matthew Garley < mgarley2 at uiuc.edu >
Subject: Online IM/Chat Corpora 

2)
Date: 27-Sep-2006
From: Chiara Vettori < cvettori at eurac.edu >
Subject: Language Acquisition 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:33:30
From: Matthew Garley < mgarley2 at uiuc.edu >
Subject: Online IM/Chat Corpora 
 


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

Thank you!
Matt Garley
Graduate Student, Linguistics
mgarley2 at uiuc.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:33:35
From: Chiara Vettori < cvettori at eurac.edu >
Subject: Language Acquisition 

	

We're planning a project about language diffusion in South Tyrol, focusing
on 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 tyrolean
dialect(s)) embody some communication situations [we looked at American
bumper stickers's potential].

Has anyone already done something similar? And could you please give me
some bibliographical references about this topic (in part. about the role
of collocations/visual stimuli in language acquisition)?
Many thanks in advance
Chiara Vettori 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
 



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