Here is a tentative schedule for the student conference on written language, which will be held in the library conference hall (2nd floor) on Friday, 9 April, 10am-4:30 pm.
CEL 4 Student Conference
WRITTEN LANGUAGE
Friday, 9 April 2010, 10 am – 4:30 pm
Conference Room, 2nd floor, FFZG library
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
Session 1 — 10:00–11:30 am
chairpersons: nataša ciganović & ivana antolić
Alexander Hoyt Introductory remarks
Maša Dvornik Language in Croatian teen magazines: 1970s vs. 2000s
Ivana Antolić Language in children’s literature
Ivana Ilak Idioms with the lexeme hand and their use in English and Croatian daily newspapers
Dora Lukin The semantics of Croatian diminutives in written language
Marta Vlaić The Romance element in English vocabulary: a study of 36 American literary poems and popular songs
Katarina Perač Does it mean the same? The translation of songs
Jan Ruk Mock Spanish and Spanglish in the United States
(Discussion)
11:30 – 11:45 am — Break
Session 2 — 11:45 am –1:00 pm
chairpersons: ksenija slivac & filip krkač
Bernarda Burilo How to effectively write an autobiographical essay
Nataša Ciganović Graffiti
Jasna Turković Linguistic idiosyncrasies through recipes
Maja Žvorc The role of context in understanting the meaning of utterances
Valnea Baričević Old English kennings
(Discussion)
1:00 – 1:45 pm — Lunch Break
Session 3 — 1:45 – 3:00 pm
chairpersons: maja žvorc & petra jagušić
Marin Čalić leet
Ana Nikšić Analysis and usage of leetspeak
Petra Jagušić Lolcats
Ksenija Slivac The use of the aorist and the imperfect in Croatian sms text messages, e-mails, and chats
Filip Krkač
(Discussion)
3:00 – 3:15 pm — Break
Session 4 — 3:15 – 4:30 pm
chairpersons: dora lukin & marta vlaić
Ivana Zgonjanin The influence of internet memes on the linguistic development of Filozofski fakultet’s forum
Martina Piršljin Phenomena of linguistic structures in social networking
Suzana Tkalčević An analysis of Facebook inbox messages
Jelena Barukčić Intialisms in text messages
Mirela Češkić An analysis of English loan words in Croatian web portal official blogs
(Discussion)
