Category: applied linguistics

CFP Pragmatic strategies in non-native Englishes

 

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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.

CFP New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice @Telecoll2016

 

Call for Abstracts for the conference “New Directions in Telecollaborative Research and Practice”, Trinity College Dublin, 21-23 April 2016: http://www.tcd.ie/slscs/telecollaboration2016/

This conference builds on the great success of the first conference on telecollaboration held in León, Spain, in 2014, as part of the INTENT project (http://www.intent-project.eu/intent-project.eu/index.htm; http://uni-collaboration.eu/ ), and reflects the growing interest in this pedagogical model.

Submission of abstracts is now open at http://www.tcd.ie/slscs/telecollaboration2016/submissionForm.php – DEADLINE 1 DECEMBER.

Conference registration will open shortly: look out for the further notification, to be circulated soon.

Keynote talks by:

Professor Celeste Kinginger, Penn State University
Professor David Little, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Dr. Andreas Müller-Hartmann, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg

Information and communication:

Website: http://www.tcd.ie/slscs/telecollaboration2016/
Email: telecoll2016@tcd.ie
Twitter: @telecoll2016

Hope to see you in Dublin!

Kind regards,

Breffni O’Rourke, on behalf of the academic committee

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Multi-dimensional analysis of oral proficiency interviews #cl2015

 

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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 registers (ANOVAs and post hocs)

 

6 dimension

1. Explicit stance: private verbs, that deletion, lower rates of implicit stance that the Longman corpus

3. Speaker-centered informational vs listener centered involvement: pro1, subject-conj.causative, nn, amplifiers,

4. Extended informational discourse: word length, prep, jj atr, that rel, negative features: all pronouns

6. Implicit stance: higher rates of implicit stance that the Longman corpus

 

 

Non-obvious meaning in CL and CADS #cl2015

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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)

 

 

 

Representation of benefit claimants in UK media #cl2015

 

Ben Clarke
The ideological representation of benefit claimants in UK print media

2010 – 2014

2.3 M corpus

benefits clsimant(s) search criteria

Adjectival constructions

Adjective lemmas are ranked

hard number 40

tough number 53

enTenTen13 score

Tough on is significant in the corpus

Tough patterns

Benefit claimants: scroungers

tougher conditions, curbs on

Prepositions and ideology: on here as a Goal PR in a Material PT (impacted/affected entity)