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SUMMARY:The Digital Turn in Historical Sociolinguistics - Talk by Prof. An
 ita Auer\, UNIL
DTSTART:20191113T160000
DTEND:20191113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T115440Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Anita Auer\nAbstract\nOver the last thirty years numerou
 s corpora of various historical varieties of English and other languages h
 ave been compiled and made available to historical sociolinguistics\, i.e.
  a research field that investigates language variation and change over tim
 e and space\, with a particular focus on the effect that society has on la
 nguage use. Regarding the text bases for corpus creation\, a development f
 rom using printed material\, often written by the top social layers\, to m
 anuscript materials\, written by the lower (less educated) social layers\,
  can be observed. On the digital side\, a move from plain text versions to
  TEI and other standards has taken place.\nThis presentation (a) provides 
 a brief overview of the digital development in the field of historical soc
 iolinguistics\, and (b) discusses some challenges that the corpus creation
  process entails\, e.g. the conversion of textual material into a corpus\,
  the implementation of meta-linguistic information\, the (dis)agreement on
  standards\, and (c) sketches a vision and the future potential of histori
 cal sociolinguistic databases.\n\nDH Research Seminar\nThe DH Research Sem
 inar is a series of talks organised by the Digital Humanities Institute gi
 ven by researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and aiming at presenti
 ng the vast array of subjects covered by Digital Humanities.\n\nBe sure to
  come. Listen to the talk and participate if you wish in the Q&A session\,
  and continue to discuss the subject with the speaker and the other parti
 cipants in a relaxed athmosphere during the apero that will follow the tal
 k.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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