REGISTER VARIETIES AND VARIATION in ENGLISH and Generative Multimodal Large language models

Starting date
June 30, 2023
Duration (months)
24
Departments
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Managers or local contacts
Zanfei Anna
Keyword
English language, variation, varieties, AI-generated multimodal text

The project REGISTER VARIETIES AND VARIATION in ENGLISH and Generative Multimodal Large Language Models intends to investigate register varieties as defined by Douglas Biber and their variations in English language use. The study of variation in English is the study of language use, and to narrow the purpose of this investigation, I will focus my attention on the concept of convergence and divergence applied to registers of professional sectors and persuasive registers. Furthermore, this study will consider variation in both the context of use and communicative goals (and sub-goals) in social practices and the classroom. This last part is defined theoretically by the extensive study that M.H. Long dedicated to focus-on-form and communication (including feedback) in the classroom. The tools I will use are available corpora, open-source APIs and datasets available to the public, and, generally, Generative Multimodal Large Language Models such as Claude by Anthropic.

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Funds: assigned and managed by the department
Funds: assigned and managed by the department

Project participants

Anna Zanfei
Associate Professor
Research areas involved in the project
Lingua e linguistica inglese
English Discourse Analysis and Text Linguistics
Lingua e linguistica inglese
English Language

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