Category: Announcements

LEARN TURKISH IN ISTANBUL THIS SUMMER

The Language Center at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey runs a yearly intensive summer program in Turkish, and this year the program will take place between June 15 and August 3, 2017. The program provides intensive instruction in Turkish to adult learners while offering them an opportunity to have first-hand experience with the Turkish culture. Coursework is 9-1 on weekdays plus an hour of free conversation a day. The website for the program has further information.

GOODBYE, 2016!

As we all prepare for the end of the term and year, on behalf of the department, we at WHASC would like to wish you all a wonderful — safe, happy, relaxing, productive, cheery — break. See you in 2017 and Winter quarter!

BURNETT TALKIN’ ‘BOUT STYLE TODAY AT 11:30

Heather Burnett (CNRS/Paris 7) will be talking in S-Circle TODAY at 11:30 in the CAVE (special date, time, and location!). An abbreviated abstract of her talk, “Signaling Games, Sociolinguistic Variation and the Construction of Style”, is below:

In this presentation, I introduce social meaning games (SMGs), which are developed for the analysis of the strategic aspect of sociolinguistic variation (in the sense of Labov 1963, Labov 1966, et seq.), such as the use of the English (ING) suffix. SMGs unify the Third Wave approach to the meaning of sociolinguistic variation (see Eckert 2000, 2008, 2012) with signalling games (Lewis 1969) and a Bayesian approach to speaker/listener reasoning (see Oaksford & Chater 2007 for a review). I define the games and then show the predictions of this framework for both linguistic production and interpretation, as exemplified by the modeling of six empirical studies.

SUNNY, WITH A HIGH CHANCE OF STATISTICS

This Friday is also Statistics Day at UCSC. Our friends in AMS have the following announcement:

The Statistics Group in AMS will have a half-day long event where we present our research by faculty members and our graduate students, followed by panel discussion (possibly by our alumni and us).

The date is Nov 18th, from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. We will have three sessions for presentation (each is about 35 mins) and the last 40 min
for panel discussion. In between, we have a coffee break. The place is E2-180.

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