ORGANISING COMMITTEE Santiago Posteguillo (Universitat Jaume I) Alicia Bolaños (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) Amparo Alcina (Universitat Jaume I) María José Esteve (Universitat Jaume I) Elena Ortells (Universitat Jaume I) Jordi Piqué (Universitat de València) José Ramón Prado (Universitat Jaume I)  Mª Lluisa Gea Valor (Universitat Jaume I)              For further information contact: Nuria Edo Marzá at al019166@alumail.uji.es Website design and updating: Esther Blázquez Chaves  estherbchaves@yahoo.es

ORGANISING INSTITUTIONS   Departament de  Filologia Anglesa i Romànica

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET AND LANGUAGE 18TH, 19TH AND 20TH SEPTEMBER 2003 UNIVERSITAT JAUME I, CASTELLÓ, SPAIN       1er Congreso Internacional  de Internet y Lenguaje 1er Congrés Internacional  d'Internet i Llenguatge

 
 
 
 

AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We are organising the 1st International Conference on Internet and Language. This is intended as a forum of discussion for linguists and researchers in areas such as Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Literary Studies or Translation, among other disciplines, who are involved in the use or study of Internet, either as a research or teaching resource or as a linguistic phenomenon in itself. We have received papers in relation to the panels listed below:  Internet and Literary Studies Internet and Translation Internet and Language Use / Linguistics and Digital Genres. Internet and language for Specific Purposes. Internet and Foreign Language Teaching /  Second Language Acquisition.   PLENARY SPEAKERS: Prof. Santiago González y Fernández-Corugedo (Universidad de Oviedo)  Prof. Naomi S.Baron (American University, Washington, DC)  Dr Francisco Yus (Universidad de Alicante)  Dr Rafael Alejo (Universidad de Extremadura)

Thursday, 18 Septenber 09:00  Registration  09:30  Opening ceremony 10:00  Parallel sessions 11:30  Coffee Break 12:00  Plenary Lecture: "The future of Written Culture". Keynote speaker: Naomi S. Baron (American University). 14:15  Lunch 16:00  Parallel sessions 17:30  Coffee Break 18:00  Parallel sessions Friday, 19 September 09:30  Parallel sessions 11:30  Coffee Break 12:00  Parallel sessions 13:00  Plenary Lecture: "From DOS incantations to Ordinary Speech via Newspeak (1983-2003): Or how to throw away most of what we have learned in the past 20 years". Keynote speaker: Santiago González y Fernández-Corugedo (Universidad de Oviedo) 14:15  Lunch 16:00  Parallel sessions 18:00  Coffee Break 18:30Plenary Lecture: “ La contextualización en la comunicación por Internet. La esencia lingüístico-cognitiva de la comunidad virtual” Keynote speaker: Francisco Yus (Universidad de Alicante) 21:00Conference dinner

Saturday, 20 September 09:30 Parallel sessions 11:30 Coffee Break 12:00 Plenary lecture: “Metatext on  the web: a linguistic study of the links  used in commercial web  sites”Keynote speaker: Rafael Alejo  González (Universidad de Extremadura) 13:15 Closure Saturday afternoon: Optional trip to Valencia (Oceanogràfic)