Granchester Meadows, 11 March 2017
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Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy
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
Theresa May’s Brexit Speech Key concepts semantic keyword analysis @perayson Wmatrix #corpuslinguistics
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.
#CFP Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar Edge Hill University
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
My top 10 impromptu reading list on corpus-based research
One of my RSLE students asked me if I could provide her with a reading list on corpus based research. Her interests are within teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The list is for obvious reasons far from comprehensive. I’ve decided to choose those resources I’ve used in the past and which I have found … Read more
Deadline of the CfP for LCR 2017 extended to 31 Jan 2017 #corpuslinguistics
The deadline of the CfP for LCR 2017 has been extended to Tuesday, 31 January 2017 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, Bolzano/Bozen, 5-7 October 2017 Call for Papers Following the successful conferences in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in 2011, Bergen (Norway) in 2013 and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) in 2015, the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference will be hosted … Read more