[1] From: Elisabeth Burr <he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> (16)
Subject: Re: 12.0361 linguistically interesting Web sites
[2] From: Einat Amitay <einat@mpce.mq.edu.au> (22)
Subject: Re: linguistically interesting Web sites?
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:55:58 +0000
From: Elisabeth Burr <he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>
Subject: Re: 12.0361 linguistically interesting Web sites
With due humility, I think that my web sites relating to linguistic
seminars I teach might be of some interest, above all the ones which
exploit possibilities of TactWeb;
check through what you find under:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm
Comments/critique/questions are most wellcome
Elisabeth Burr
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http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm
Editor of:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/DRV/home.html
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:57:17 +0000
From: Einat Amitay <einat@mpce.mq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: linguistically interesting Web sites?
Hi,
> If we adapt our writing to the
> medium, how is our actual use of language changed? Do our sentences become
> shorter? more colloquial? tend to become fragmented into list items? What
> about paragraphs? How, if at all, is syntax affected? Does our vocabulary
> tend to change, and if so, how?
>
I think my MSc dissertation would be of interest to you since it discusses
the language conventions which emerge on the web by analysing a large
collection (1000) of web pages. The conclusions try to address exactly the
questions you introduced.
Amitay E. (1997). Hypertext - The importance of being different. MSc
Dissertation, Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Also Technical Report No. HCRC/RP-94.
The dissertation can be found in both PDF and PS formats on my web page:
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~einat/
under the publication section.
+:o)
einat
-- Einat Amitay einat@mri.mq.edu.au http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~einat
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