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Research Seminar, Department of Italian, University of Leeds
Mirko Tavosanis
(Linguistics Department, University of Pisa)
'The Language of the Italian Web: 2.0 and beyond'
Wednesday 28th January 2009, 3.30-5.00pm
Emmanuel Centre: Room SR 07 (G.12), University of Leeds
The seminar will present a characterization of the language of some
important web genres in Italian. Particular attention will be paid to
orthographic issues and to the diffusion of neo-standard linguistic
features in blogs, forums and social networking sites.
Mirko Tavosanis is Lecturer (Ricercatore) in Italian linguistics at the
University of Pisa. His publications include a study on the sources of
the ‘Prose della volgar lingua’ by Pietro Bembo (ETS, 2002); he is now
working on the language of the Italian Web.
ALL WELCOME!
For further information contact Olivia Santovetti, [log in to unmask]
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Dr Olivia Santovetti
Lecturer in Italian
Department of Italian
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
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