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SUMMARY:Grammar Rules\, Language Academy Drools\, Kawaii Kewlz!!!! - What 
 Happens to a Language When Written on the Internet - Illan Gonen\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Bert Vaux
DESCRIPTION:Being the biggest democracy in the world\, the internet suppli
 es linguists with the novel opportunity to observe texts written by young 
 literates\, who nowadays meet the keyboard in their first years. I will br
 ing highlights from the story of On-Line Hebrew (Vaisman and Gonen 2011)\,
  demonstrating:\n* how the 'spoken'/'written' language divide collapses\;\
 n* how different platforms challenge language users to innovate\, using th
 e linguistic tools accessible to them\, culminating in the creation of dif
 ferent jargons\;\n* how globalisation promotes borrowing in unexpected way
 s\n* formation and merging of registers\, sociolects and variants.
LOCATION:Gibbs Building F6\, King's College\, Cambridge
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