Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
perezparedes From the Forensic Linguistics e-mail list :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Symposium on “Expertise in Language and Law” will take place on Friday 27th November 2015. This Symposium is part of the Advanced Research Residency in Language and Law which takes place at Cardiff University from October to December this year. The full program me of events is … Read more
Link here. This course teaches scientists to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing faster and with less anxiety, the format of a scientific manuscript, and issues in publication and peer review. Students from non-science disciplines can benefit from the training provided in the … Read more
Through the EUROCALL list Provisional Book Title: Learner Autonomy and Web 2.0 Call for Abstracts The 2017 CALICO Monograph, published by Equinox, aims to explore how the notion of learner autonomy is being reshaped within Web 2.0 environments. In early definitions, dating from the 1980s, learner autonomy was largely conceived of in terms of individuals working … Read more
Shelley Staples; Jesse Egbert; Geoff LaFlair A multi-dimensional comparison of oral proficiency interviews to conversation, academic and professional spoken registers MELAB : Michigan Engish Language Battery 989 OPIs in 2013 OPI used for academic and profesional purposes Only transcribed the first 5 minutes 55 linguistic features TagCount FA 6 factor solution Dimensions interpreted functionally Dimension scores Differences across … Read more
Plenary session: Alan Partington Non-obvious meaning in CL and CADS: from ‘hindsight post-dictability’ to sweet serendipity Chair: Amanda Potts http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/blog/clb/ Introspection & intuition Processes of inference from the linguistic trace left by speakers/writers Shared meaning Idiom principle Complexity of common grammatical items Colligation: every word primed to occur in or avoid certain grammatical positions and … Read more
Doug Biber; Jesse Egbert; Mark Davies Panel: A linguistic taxonomy of registers on the searchable web: Distribution, linguistic descriptions, and automatic register identification Abstract book pp 52-54 Doug Biber Oral-literate dimensions & Narrative dimension remain constant in all MDA across languages and registers Oral-literate dimensions 3 dimensions here Pronouns & questions, verbs, dependent clauses crucial in … Read more