CFP #Grammar of #genres and #styles: which approaches to prefer? 16 Jan 2015

Grammar of genres and styles: which approaches to prefer? ConSciLa (Confrontations en Sciences du Langage),Paris, France,Friday 16 January 2015(the place will be announced later) Organization———–Thierry Charnois (University of Paris 13, LIPN),Sascha Diwersy (Universität zu Köln),Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi),Dominique Legallois (University of Caen, Crisco) Call for participation—————– Modern syntactic research consists generally of studies that are … Read more

#CFP #BigData in a Transdisciplinary Perspective

(Through the Corpora-List) Herrenhausen Conference, March 25-27, 2015, Hanover, Germany Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective Large amounts of data, a variety of sources, high speed production, but also high speed processing – these are the basic characteristics of Big Data. The amount of data that is generated and collected in each second grows exponentially. … Read more

Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC): Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests @NPR

An NPR feature which disccusses W. Pennebaker contribution to human use of words. This was also the subject of my own contribution to the 2010 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies within the session “Interdisciplinary research between Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology” at Boston University, MA.