Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes Sketch Engine online CQL manual/tutorial here. CQL basics Search structures Word Sketches in CQL
All writing is rewriting. […] If words you have set down puzzle you once you have forgotten how they came to your mind, they will puzzle the stranger and you must do something about them – rediscover your meaning and express it, not some other or none at all (p.227).
Jacques Barzun. Simple & Direct.
Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-18:30 Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3. Link Cognitive Discourse Functions (CDFs; Dalton-Puffer 2013) designed to serve as a research heuristic as well as a development tool. CDF construct … Read more
Semantic keyword analysis comparing Theresa May’s Brexit speech of 17 January 2017 against the BNC Spoken context-governed Sampler (Info here) I used Wmatrix 3 for this: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix3.html Info on the USAS Tag here. Here are the semantic tags with LL >6 BBC website.
The symposium will take place on Saturday 10 June 2017 at Edge Hill University. The focus of the Symposium is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum … Read more
