Call for papers for a special issue in Writing & Pedagogy (Equinox), (Winter 2017, 9:2) titled “Multimodality in electronic feedback on writing”.
It can be found under the following link:
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/WAP/announcement/view/130
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
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
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.
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.
New!!!!!!
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/
Source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Foreign_language_learning_statistics
Data extracted in January 2016. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database. Planned article update: January 2017.
CALL FOR PAPERS
BAAL / Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Programme 2015-2016 and COST Action IS1306
New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges
New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st Century
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 26th & 27th May 2016
The 21st Century is witnessing increased discussions on immigration in local, national and international contexts. The aim of this seminar is to bridge the study of language and immigration and consider the extent to which immigrants learning new languages (which include learning majority, minority and/or heritage languages) may contribute to a more comprehensive and plurilingual view of integration today.
The proceedings will be directed by key themes and objectives as follows:
• What are the opportunities and challenges for immigrants who learn new languages?
• To what extent do immigrant speakers challenge current conceptions of integration, cohesion and citizenship?
• Which steps or initiatives could facilitate a more comprehensive view of integration, cohesion and citizenship in national and minority language contexts?
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Professor Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University)
Professor Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)
Round table discussion: Immigration in the 21st century: language, integration and citizenship
Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost (Cardiff University)
Professor Bernadette O’Rourke (Heriot-Watt University)
Dr Cassie Smith-Christmas (University of the Highlands and Islands)
Workshop: Immigrants, integration and multilingual practices in the UK
Ms Mirona Moraru (Cardiff University)
Fee: This is a free event and lunch will be provided on both days
Please submit an abstract of no more than 350 words (including references) by 29th February 2016 to baalcupseminar2016@gmail.com.
Contact details (name, affiliation and email address) should be included in the body of the email together with the title.
Please also indicate whether you wish to present a paper or a poster. We intend to publish an edited volume based on the seminar papers and therefore encourage participation from those who are in a position to contribute to the volume.