23.1120, Confs: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, General Ling/Italy

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Subject: 23.1120, Confs: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, General Ling/Italy

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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:49:20
From: Emanuele Miola [emanuele.miola at unipv.it]
Subject: Languages Go Web

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Languages Go Web 

Date: 04-Apr-2012 - 05-Apr-2012 
Location: Pavia, Italy 
Contact: Emanuele Miola 
Contact Email: emanuele.miola at unipv.it 
Meeting URL: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/centri.php?id=23&sez=2 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

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 at 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 

The Workshop language will be English and will include contribution by (in 
alphabetical order):

Matteo Casoni
Massimo Cerruti & Cristina Onesti
Kristin Davidse
Giuliana Fiorentino
Susan C. Herring
Adam Kilgarriff
Emanuele Miola
Andrea Moll
Máiréad Moriarty
Mirko Tavosanis
Christiana Themistocleous
Sue Wright

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.

The Organizing Committee:

(Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, Paolo Ramat, 
Andrea Sansò) 

LETiSS International Workshop
'Languages Go Web'
Pavia, 4-5 April 2012

Day 1
Session 1: Web, Society and Language

9.30-10.15 S
ue Wright (University of Portsmouth)
The Recurring Trinity: Language, Technology and Society

10.15-11.00 
Máiréad Moriarty (University of Limerick)
Irish Goes Viral!: Irish Language Recovery Via New Media Domains

11.00-11.30 
Coffee Break

11.30-12.15 
Matteo Casoni (Osservatorio Linguistico della Svizzera Italiana)
Vitality of Italian in Switzerland: Socio-economical Aspects of Languages 
through the Websites of Swiss Companies

12.15-13.00 
Andrea Moll (Universität Freiburg)
Cyber-Jamaican in CMC: Between Sociolinguistic Styling and Ethnolinguistic 
Repertoire

13.00-15.00 
Lunch

Session 2: Language Change and Variation on the Web

15.00-15.45 
Kristin Davidse (KULeuven)
Using Internet Data for the Study of Language Change: a Comparative Study 
of the Grammaticalized uses of English Sort (of) and French Genre (de) in 
Teenage Forum Data

15.45-16.30 
Emanuele Miola (IUSS Pavia)
>9000 volte lo stesso Thread: Small (Italian) Online Communities and 
Language Change

16.30-17.00 
Coffee Break

17.00-17.45 
Massimo Cerruti & Cristina Onesti (Università di Torino)
Style Variation in Italian, with Particular Attention to Computer Mediated 
Communication

17.45-18.30 
Susan C. Herring (Indiana University Bloomington)
Special Internet Language Varieties: Culture, Creativity, and Language 
Change

Day 2
Session 3: Linguists go Web: What They Do and What They Find

9.30-10.15 
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Leeds)
So Much of Everything

10.15-11.00 
Giuliana Fiorentino (Università del Molise)
The 'Wild Language' On the Web: New Writers, Old Problems and the Written 
Code Elaboration

11.00-11.30 
Coffee Break

11.30-12.15 
Mirko Tavosanis (Università di Pisa)
Non-standard Rules: Innovation You Can Not Find in the Italian Web

12.15-13.00 
Christiana Themistocleous (University of Reading)
Writing in Romanised Cypriot Greek: CMC and beyond

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