{"id":245,"date":"2020-02-21T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2020-09-07T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T11:55:56","slug":"mark-iten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/mark-iten\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Iten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/files\/2020\/03\/Iten_Mark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" width=\"169\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/files\/2020\/03\/Iten_Mark.jpg 260w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/files\/2020\/03\/Iten_Mark-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am currently working as a PhD-Student in the SNSF-funded research project&nbsp;<em>The Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England<\/em>. Besides the main aim of the project (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/project-description\/\">project description<\/a>), the aim of my work is to investigate the pauper petition letters from a normative perspective, by (a) comparing the lower-class language \u2013 in terms of orthography and selected linguistic variables (subjunctive, preposition placement,&nbsp;<em>shall\/will<\/em>, negation,&nbsp;<em>do-<\/em>periphrasis, strong\/weak verbs, adjective\/superlative) \u2013 to the language of letters by the contemporary middling sorts and the elite, and by (b) taking the socio-historical context into consideration, i.e. education opportunities and literacy levels between the different social orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before starting this position, I completed both my Bachelor\u2019s (2018) degree in English and German, as well as my Master\u2019s (2020) degree in English and Linguistics at the University of Lausanne. In 2019, I have received the Prix de Facult\u00e9, \u00e9tudiant en mobilit\u00e9 OUT, for my exchange year at Texas A&amp;M University. I wrote my Master\u2019s thesis on&nbsp;<em>The Representation of Migrants in U.S. Newspapers from 1798-1990: A Historical Analysis of Metaphors and Pronominalization in the Discourse of Migration.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently working as a PhD-Student in the SNSF-funded research project&nbsp;The Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England. Besides the main aim of the project (see project &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001230,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/lalp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}