#CFP AAAL Portland 2017

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AAAL PORTLAND 2017 – CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The 2017 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be held at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Oregon on March 18-21, 2017. The theme for the 2017 AAAL Conference is “Applied Linguistics and Transdisciplinarity”.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Li Wei, University College London/Institute of Education “Rethinking Language in Translanguaging: Implications for Learning, Use, and Policy”
Simona Pekarek-Doehler, Université de Neuchâtel “The Development of L2 Interactional Competence: Evidence from Longitudinal Research”
Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis “Doing Phenomenology with Words”
Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State University “Spatiolinguistics: Language Competence of Migrant Professionals from Transdisciplinary Perspectives”
Janet Wiles, University of Queensland “Talking with Robots”
Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University “New Challenges for Rhetorical Genre Studies: Multimodality, Methodology, Interdisciplinarity”

INVITED COLLOQUIA

“Sexuality and Applied Linguistics: Poststructuralist Perspectives” Organizers: Tommaso Milani, University of the Witwatersrand and Heiko Motschenbacher, Goethe University of Frankfurt
“Ethnographic Research in Applied Linguistics“ Organizers: Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia and Angela Creese, University of Birmingham
“Video Games, Literacy and Language Learning” Organizer: Christine Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Extending the Legacy of Leo Van Lier: Ecologizing Pedagogy” Organizers: Dwight Atkinson, University of Arizona and Steven L. Thorne, Portland State University
“Applied Linguistics and Conversation Analysis: Ways of Problematizing the Monolingual Standard” Organizers: Hansun Waring, Columbia University and John Hellermann, Portland State University

JOINT INVITED COLLOQUIA

“Language and Asylum in the Age of Suspicion” (AAA@AAAL) Organizers: Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna and Marco Jacquemet, University of San Francisco
“Multilingualism and Indigenous Language Education” (LSA@AAAL) Organizers: Teresa McCarty, UCLA, Carmel O’Shannessy, University of Michigan and Tiffany Lee, University of New Mexico
“Transdisciplinarity in Applied Linguistics” (AILA@AAAL) Organizers: Claire Kramsch, UC Berkeley, Marjolijn Verspoor, Groningen University and Daniel Perrin, Zurich University of Applied Science
“Creativity and Language Teaching” (TESOL@AAAL) Organizers: Rodney Jones, University of Reading, Julie Choi, University of Melbourne and Judy Sharkey, University of New Hampshire
“Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Challenges to Construct Definition in EAP/LSP Assessment” (ILTA@AAAL) Organizers: Cathie Elder and Ute Knoch, University of Melbourne and Barbara Hoekje, Drexel University

CONFERENCE CHAIR: Tim McNamara, University of Melbourne

Proposals are invited for individual papers, colloquia, posters, roundtable discussions and shared shorter paper sessions. Particularly welcome are proposals which address the conference theme, although this is not mandatory. The deadline for proposal submission is 5:00 p.m. on August 17, 2015 (EDT; UTC-4).

Proposals are welcome in the following topic strands:

Analysis of Discourse and Interaction (DIS)
Assessment and Evaluation (ASE)
Bilingual, Immersion, Heritage, and Minority Education (BIH)
Corpus Linguistics (COR)
Educational Linguistics (EDU)
Language and Cognition (COG)
Language and Ideology (LID)
Language and Technology (TEC)
Language Maintenance and Revitalization (LMR)
Language Planning and Policy (LPP)
Language, Culture and Socialization (LCS)
Pragmatics (PRG)
Reading, Writing, and Literacy (RWL)
Research Methods (REM)
Second and Foreign Language Pedagogy (PED)
Second Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition, and Attrition (SLA)
Sociolinguistics (SOC)
Text Analysis (Written Discourse) (TXT)
Translation and Interpretation (TRI)
Vocabulary (VOC)

Full details of how to submit proposals can be found at http://www.aaal.org/page/2017CFP
The proposal system will open on June 1.
Submission Deadline: August 17, 2016, 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) are addressed on the conference proposal website. For further questions regarding the academic aspects of the conference, including proposal submission policies, please contact conference@aaal.org For further questions regarding the practicalities of how to submit a proposal or other technical questions, please contact proposal@aaal.org

Corpus linguistics in the South 11, U. Sussex

 

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Freeman Centre, University of Sussex, 27 February 2016

Some of the presentations

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Lee Oakley, University of Birmingham
Some challenges when analysing a Census Corpus

The SexEd Corpus: a census corpus 1950-2014
93,202 words
11-16 year olds
Teenage readership
How are different sexualities presented to British teenagers?

Methodological approach to more qualitative analyses
All analysis is comparison

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Jill Bowie &  Sean Wallis, UCL

Investigating changes in structures and collocations, from a treebank to a megacorpus

Corpus: COHA (Davies 2012)

The to-infinitival perfect

80% decrease in use since 1820

402 verb lemmas in order of frequency

Top 30 collocates account for 95% of tokens (top 95% percintile)

Seem, Appear, Say, Ought, Be, Report, Claim

Seeming group

Cognition group

Cognition and saying group

Modality group

Grammatical change tends to be lexically constrained

Benefits of using dual corpora (ICE-GB + COHA)

We need open data to do more with the corpus data

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Taming the beast: getting to grips with a mega corpus.

Chris Turner, Coventry

Oxford corpus of English

some / any

Corpus of law reports

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Frequency and grammaticalization in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pdgin English

Gabriel Ozon, Sheffield

estimated 50% of the population use it

West of Cameroon

Stigmatised status

Pilot study: 30 hours recordings, British Academy

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How to use a nanocorpus. Enriching corpora of interpreting.
 
Camille Ciollard & Bart Defrancq
 
Female interpreters hedge more than male speakers
 
Use of the marker well
 

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Capturing the zoo: a system for downloading, preparing and managing corpus data from online forums.
 
Clausia Viggiana & John Williams
 

Open source tools 
Citizen science 
To capture and interrogate linguistic data form online CS forums: zooniverse
 

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How small corpora paradoxically uncovered the nexr quark in corpus studies.
 
Bill Louw, Coventry & Zimbabwe
 

Theory of scientific method, William Whewell, Trinity College, Colligation.
 
Text reads text
 

From EFL to EMI

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There is a fast-moving worldwide shift from English being taught as a foreign language (EFL) to English being the medium of instruction (EMI) for academic subjects” (Dearden, 2014, p. 2).

Dearden, J. (2014). English as a medium of instruction-a growing global phenomenon: Phase 1. London: British Council.

#CFP CLS12: Corpus studies at the lexis-grammar interface NEW deadline March 10

CLS12 will take place on Saturday 2 April 2016 at Edge Hill University.

The focus of CLS12 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 (lexicogrammar), in that “if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers” (1992: 64).

We welcome corpus-based papers which examine any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar, or to extend Halliday’s conception, studies which interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. The studies …

-may be located more towards the lexis end or the grammar end of the continuum.
-may be descriptive, theoretical or applied (e.g. related to language teaching).
-may (but don’t need to) be situated within any theoretical approach that recognises the combination or interaction of lexis and grammar (e.g. Construction Grammar, Lexical Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar).
-may be synchronic or diachronic.
We also welcome papers which discuss methodological issues related to the corpus-based study of the lexis-grammar interface.

Presentations will be allocated a total of 40 minutes (including at least 10 minutes for discussion).

Please send an abstract of 400-500 words (excluding references) to Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk). Please make sure to specify the research questions or hypotheses, the corpus and methodology, and the main findings.

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The deadline for abstract submission is 10 March 2016. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed.

More info: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/cls12/