Programme
For the complete programme click here
Courses from Monday to Friday, 22-26 July 2024
Online courses:
23-24 July:
- Language abuse in the digital age
Isobelle Clarke (Lancaster)
25-26 July:
- Visualizing forests, not trees: Aggregate varietal comparison (Online course)
John Nerbonne (Groningen)
In-person courses:
22-23 July:
- Post-digital ethnography: Multimodality, mobility, and polymedia
Agnieszka Lyons (London) - Studying linguistic innovation with online data
Jack Grieve (Birmingham)
23-24 July
Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (Freiburg)
- Englishes on the move: Focus on digital and diasporic settings
Mirka Honkanen / Axel Bohmann (Freiburg)
25-26 July:
- Cognitive Construction Grammar and online processing
Martin Hilpert (Neuchâtel) - Digital social network analysis: Studying diffusion of innovation in online data
Mikko Laitinen (Joensuu)
Plenaries and Panels
Plenaries:
- Monday, 22 July, 17-18.30
Mikko Laitinen: Societal Big Data in English Linguistics: Potential, Limitations, and Challenges - Tuesday, 23 July, 12.00-13.00
Jack Grieve: The Language of Fake News - Wednesday, 24 July, 17-18.30 - Online Plenary
Isobelle Clarke: Comparing the Discourses Across Anti-Science Websites - Thursday, 25 July, 12.00-13.00
Alice Blumenthal-Dramé: Operationalizing Constructionhood in Online Processing Research
Panels:
- Tuesday, 23 July, 17-18.30, Research Ethics (Daria Dayter & Sofia Rüdiger)
- Thursday, 25 July, 17-18.30, Linguistics meets AI (Jack Grieve, Lars Konieczny & John Nerbonne)
- Friday, 26 July, 14-16.30, Online Data, Online Processing and the Future of English Linguistics
PhD Poster Sessions
(registration by email to ISLE_SummerSchool2024@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de from 15 May until 15 June 2024)
- Monday, 22 July, 18.30-19.30
- Wednesday, 24 July, 18.30-19.30
Expert Consultancy Sessions
(more information and registration lists on site at FRIAS)
- Tuesday, 23 July, 18.30-19.30
- Wednesday, 24 July, 12.00-13.00
- Thursday, 25 July, 18.30-19.30
- Friday, 26 July, 12.00-13.00
Reception on the FRIAS Terrace (24 July), Summer School Dinner (26 July) and Excursion (27 July)
- The reception on the FRIAS terrace is sponsored by De Gruyter Mouton and will start around 7 p.m.
- The summer school barbecue in the Botanical Garden (Schänzlestr. 1) behind the Biology II building will start at 6 p.m. (see map)
- For info on the excursion to the Black Forest on Saturday, July 27, please see here. We will meet on track 2 of the train station (Freiburg Hauptbahnhof) at 10:00 a.m.
Free time activities and lunch options
- Free time activities
- Lunch options:
- at Mensa (refectory of the university)
- in close proximity to FRIAS
