Dear all, I wanted to share a video that ties in with yesterday’s discussion on superdiversity very well. It is a talk by Esra Akcan, from Cornell University, where she analyses ‘open architecture’, with a focus on social housing in Berlin.
She shows a picture (1:04:07) of a building extension that has satellite dishes on it, I suggest watching…[Read more]

Written conversation on the internet: Pragmalinguistic characterisation.
SUMMARY in English
The analysis shows that there is “no clear-cut distinction between oral and written discourse” and “that the lack of extra-linguistic information in written conversation is not an insurmountable obstacle, because of the ways to transmit non-verbal infor…[Read more]

Oralization of digital texts: non-normative uses in written online conversations
SUMMARY

The authors suggest that chat language is closer to spoken language than to prototypical written language, based on the phonetic, lexical, and morphosyntactic deviations from the standard (Spanish) that were found in their corpus of online conversations…[Read more]

Even though all three articles that we read this week are products of completed research, I cannot but go back to our last discussion about articulating a research question, which brings me to square one: why was the research done? Point 2 on Professor Cece’s slide 4 reads “it is not trivial”. I recall most of us agreeing that this meant the resea…[Read more]