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#Corpuslinguistics webinars today and tomorrow @Anne0Keeffe

Thanks to Anne O’Keeffe

FREE WEBINARS

13:00 GMT today 26th November, 2015
“‘Appropriate methodologies for studying classroom discourse”
Prof. Steve Walsh, Newcastle University
Link to webinar: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/maallearnerdiscourse/

17:00 GMT tomorrow 27th November, 2015
“Using corpora to inform teaching and materials development”
Prof. Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University

Link to webinar: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/maalissuesinlinguistics/
Recordings of these will be posted next week.

Recording of Prof. Ronald Carter’s webinar from yesterday on “From Spoken English to Written English: New worlds and new descriptions”
is available at: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/p1nz3skbvd6/

Corpus Apprenants norvégiens du français

Ce corpus, constitué à l’été 2015 par Catrine Bang Nilsen, présente 5 interactions spontanées d’environ une heure chacune entre apprenants norvégiens intermédiaires et avancés du français et francophones de France. Sa transcription par Clémence Michel et Jérôme Barbet suit les conventions du corpus CFPQ. Afin de respecter la confidentialité des informateurs, les films des interactions sont accessibles au CRISCO pour des fins de recherche scientifique.

Access here.

Thanks to Prof. Esch (U. Cambridge) for this pointer.

Deadline January 30 #CFP Young language Learners Symposium 2016 U. Oxford

Call for Papers for the forthcoming Young language Learners Symposium to be held in July 2016, at the University of Oxford.

Young Language Learners (YLL) Symposium 2016

Department of Education, University of Oxford University

July 6th – 8th, 2016

Email: YLL2016@education.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers

The organizing committee of the YLL Symposium 2016 invites the submission of abstracts on any research-oriented topic relating to the learning of a foreign, second or additional language by learners of primary school age or younger.

Presentation Format

Oral Presentations (individual or co-authored papers) to be given in a 20-minute oral presentation plus 10 minutes of discussion.

Poster Presentations (individual or co-authored papers). Posters should be prepared for A0 (841 x 1189 mm).

Submission Guidelines

• The word limit for abstracts is 350 words

• The total number of presentations per participant as first presenter should be no more than two, including a combination of oral presentation and/or poster presentation.

To submit an abstract please click here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yll2016 You will need to create an account if you do not already have one. This can be done here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 30th, 2016

Notification of acceptance: by March 14th, 2016

REAL GROUP: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/r-e-a-l/

For NALDIC, the subject association for EAL – www.naldic.org.uk

Young Language Learners 2016 Conference: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/research/applied-linguistics/the-young-language-learners-yll-symposium-2016/

CFP Pragmatic strategies in non-native Englishes

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pragmatic strategies in non-native Englishes
ESSE Conference 2016

Galway (Ireland), 22-26 August 2016

We are glad to announce a Call for Papers for the Seminar Pragmatic strategies in non-native Englishes (see description below) to be held at the ESSE-13 Conference in Galway (August 22-26 2016).

Interested authors must submit paper proposals (title and 250 word abstract) by February 28, 2016 to the two convenors:

Lieven Buysse, KU Leuven (University of Leuven). lieven.buysse@kuleuven.be
Jesús Romero-Trillo, UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). jesus.romero@uam.es
Paper acceptance will be notified by March 31, 2016.

Seminar description

Research on non-native speech has long been dominated by an emphasis on lexical and grammatical patterns. At the same time the various types of non-native varieties of English have often been treated from these perspectives too. To broaden the scope, this seminar wishes to explore the variety of discourse pragmatic strategies employed in non-native Englishes, encompassing second language (ESL), learner (EFL) and lingua franca varieties of English (ELF). Papers can focus on any pragmatic feature that helps to shape discourse and/or facilitates interaction (e.g. pragmatic markers, politeness phenomena, prosody). The research must be based on solid corpus data.

Australian Review of Applied Linguistics Vol 38, 1 out

Access this issue of the Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

(ISSN: 1833-7139) The Australian Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) is the journal of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA). The aim of the journal is to present research in a wide range of areas, but in particular research that is relevant to the particular region of the world that it covers. The journal aims to promote the development of links between language related research and its application in educational, professional, and other language related settings. Areas that are covered by the journal include first and second language teaching and learning, bilingualism and bilingual education, the use of technologies in language teaching and learning, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, translation and interpreting, language testing, language planning, academic literacies and rhetoric.

Non-obvious meaning in CL and CADS #cl2015

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 functions (Hoey, 2005: 13)

SiBol (Siena-Bologna) corpus of newspapers, judicial inquiries, press briefings. Link.

Rapid language change

Corpus methodology is useful in detecting absence, not only presence

Language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once (Sinclair 1991)

Qualitative: anaphoric, historic, past behaviour

Quantitative anaphoric and cataphoric; enough data with which to infer

If primed >> psychologically fixed >> reproduced

Evaluation as prototypicality: inner circle obvious, outer circle non-obvious

Prosody can depend on grammar (Louw 1993), pov, literal vs figurative use and on field of register

Embedding is an important factor to interpret prosody

The added value of CL in discourse studies

Looking at language at different levels of abstraction: overview & close reading

Data are not sacred

Much of textual meaning is accretional

Positive cherry-picking: find counter examples

Almost all explanation in DA is informed speculation: in human science this is the closest you get to explanation

Moral panics have evolved over the years (globesity in 2015)