CLARIN-CH co-branded events in 2024
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Overview of events:
SwissText 2024
SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons (FH Graubünden) as well as the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the data innovation alliance. It is part of the “Networking Event Series – Natural Language Processing” funded by Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. SwissText is supported by more than ten universities and scientific associations, one of which is CLARIN-CH.
LAND Spring School 2024
Date: 6-8 May 2024
Location: Hotel Restaurant Seehof, CH-6403 Küssnacht a.R.
Application Deadline: 4 April 2024
The joint PhD programme from ZHAW and USI on Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society (LAND) is hosting a spring school on the following topic: Questioning Large Language Models, understanding (multimodal) argumentation in the age of AI and social media.
PhD students from other CLARIN-CH institutions are invited to join as well! To apply for the spring school, students are asked to provide a brief motivational letter stating why they would like to attend the school, as well as a short description of their current research (max. 1 page).
PhD Masterclass: Social Movement Discourse
Date/Time: Wednesday, 20 March, 14:00–16:00 PM
Location: ZHAW, School of Applied Linguistics, Room O4.01
Speaker: Teun van Dijk
Website: ZHAW Event page
Abstract: It was in the 1960s that social movements started to be studied from psychological, economic and political perspectives. Since the 1990s, the cultural paradigm has been very influential, especially with its study of frames and framing. While many of these studies are based on discourse, they examine very different aspects of discourse, all called frames. What is more, they also ignore developments in the area of discourse studies since the 1960s. My new book Social Movement Discourse provides an introduction to discourse studies for students of social movements and, as an example, analyses the discourses of and about the Refugees Welcome movement. The cultural paradigm of social movement theory is renewed by highlighting the crucial role played by text and talk for social movements. An insight is also provided into cognitive aspects, including knowledge, attitudes and ideologies.
Bio: Teun A. van Dijk (1943) is an honorary professor of Pompeu Fabra University and Founding Director of the Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona. After his earlier research on literary theory, text grammar, discourse pragmatics and the psychology of text processing, he has worked on various topics of critical discourse studies since the 1980s. His most recent books are Discourse and Power (2008), Discourse and Context (2008), Discourse and Knowledge (2014) and Social Movement Discourse (2024). He is the founding Editor of Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies and Discourse & Communication. He has lectured in many countries, especially in Latin America, where he has also received three honorary doctorates.
The PhD School in Applied Linguistics of USI and ZHAW celebrates the completion of its programme on Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society with a series of PhD Masterclasses. The lectures are also open to scholars and advanced students from CLARIN-CH institutions.
Plenary Conference and PhD Conference: Discourse, Knowledge and Context
The PhD School in Applied Linguistics of USI and ZHAW celebrates the completion of its programme on Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society with a series of PhD Masterclasses. The lectures are also open to scholars and advanced students from CLARIN-CH institutions.
Date/Time: Thursday, 21 March, 13:30–14:30
Location: ZHAW, School of Applied Linguistics, Room O4.01
Speaker: Teun van Dijk
Website: ZHAW Event page
Abstract: The study of discourse in general, and of professional discourse, in particular, has paid extensive attention to the structures of discourse, as studied in the fields of phonology, syntax, local and global semantics, narrative and argumentative structures and multimodal structures. These have been combined, for example, in the analysis of various genres of text or talk. Current research, whether under the influence of psychology or not, also focuses on the role of knowledge to understand the many structures and strategies studied in epistemic discourse analysis. Similarly, although context has played a prominent role in sociolinguistics and pragmatics, for instance in the study of indexicality, context analysis and the role of context models account for a more explicit focus on the ways discourse structures, including structures of professional discourse, are adapted to the communicative context and thus define their appropriateness. Examples of professional discourse will be used to show the analytical relevance of these theoretical notions.