Semantic keyword analysis comparing Theresa May’s Brexit speech of 17 January 2017 against the BNC Spoken context-governed Sampler (Info here)
I used Wmatrix 3 for this: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix3.html
Info on the USAS Tag here.
Here are the semantic tags with LL >6
The symposium will take place on Saturday 10 June 2017 at Edge Hill University.
The focus of the Symposium 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 papers reporting on corpus-based studies which examine any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar, or discuss methodological issues related to the corpus-based study of lexicogrammar (e.g. annotation, metrics). We are particularly interested in studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. The studies may …
focus more on the lexis or grammar end of the continuum, or adopt an integrative approach.
offer different interpretations of the nature of lexicogrammar.
examine any language, or compare different languages.
examine L1 and/or L2 use.
adopt a synchronic or diachronic approach.
operate within any theoretical approach that takes into account the interaction of lexis and grammar (e.g. Construction Grammar, Lexical Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar, Valency Grammar).
discuss the implications of a lexicogrammatical approach for applied linguistics (e.g. lexicography, language teaching, translation, (critical) discourse studies).
develop relevant research/teaching resources.
Presentations will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Please send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk). Please make sure that the abstract clearly specifies the research questions or hypotheses, the corpus and methodology, and the main findings.
The deadline for abstract submission is 12 March 2017. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and decisions will be communicated by 9 April 2017.
Programme Committee
Federica Barbieri (Swansea University)
Tine Breban (University of Manchester)
Kristin Davidse (University of Leuven)
Belen Diaz-Bedmar (University of Jaén)
Eva Duran Eppler (University of Roehampton)
Lise Fontaine (Cardiff University)
Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain)
Nick Groom (University of Birmingham)
Glenn Hadikin (University of Portsmouth)
Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University)
Sebastian Hoffmann (University of Trier)
Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University)
Gabriel Ozon (University of Sheffield)
Michael Pace-Sigge (University of East Finland)
Magali Paquot (Université catholique de Louvain)
Pascual Perez-Paredes (University of Cambridge)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
Ute Römer (Georgia State University)
James Thomas (Masaryk University)
María Sánchez-Tornel (University of Murcia)
Benet Vincent (Coventry University)
Stefanie Wulff (University of Florida)
Participation is free. Coffee/tea and a light buffet lunch will be provided, but participants are expected to cover their travel and accommodation costs. Please note that the number of places is limited, and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
If you have any questions, please contact Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk).
URL: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/lxgr2017/
One of my RSLE students asked me if I could provide her with a reading list on corpus based research. Her interests are within teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The list is for obvious reasons far from comprehensive. I’ve decided to choose those resources I’ve used in the past and which I have found of interest in my learning and research. I’ll keep this list simple and so I’ve just included 10 references. So here it is.
Introductions to Corpus Linguistics
McEnery, T., & Hardie, A. (2011). Corpus linguistics: Method, theory and practice. Cambridge University Press.
Sinclair, J. (1991). Corpus, concordance, collocation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Corpus linguistics and linguistic research
Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Corpus linguistics and language teaching
Aijmer, K. (Ed.). (2009). Corpora and language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
O’Keefe, A., McCarthy, M., & Carter, R. (2007). From corpus to classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sinclair, J. M. (Ed.). (2004). How to use corpora in language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis
Baker, P. (2006). Using corpora in discourse analysis. London: Continuum.
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., Khosravinik, M., Krzyżanowski, M., McEnery, T., & Wodak, R. (2008). A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. Discourse & Society, 19(3), 273-306.
Chinese corpus-based linguistic research
Xiao, R., & McEnery, T. (2004). Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Learner language research
Granger, S. Gilquin, G. & Meunier, f. (eds). (2015) The Cambridge Handbook of Learner Corpus Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
International Conference Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology. Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches.
London, 13-14 November 2017
Conference topics
The forthcoming international conference âComputational and Corpus-based Phraseology: recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches will take place in London on 13 and 14 November, 2017.
The conference will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to phraseology and will invite submissions on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to: corpus-based, psycholinguistic and cognitive approaches to the study of phraseology, the computational treatment of multi-word expressions, and practical applications in translation, lexicography and language learning , teaching and assessment.
Submissions and publication
Submissions will be full-length papers not exceeding seven pages; each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. The first call for papers will provide details on the submission procedure and on the conference schedule, including submission and notification deadlines.
It is our intention to have the proceedings published as a volume and also in the form of e-proceedings which will be available at the conference.
Programme Committee
The Programme Committee features experts in different aspects of corpus-based and computational phraseology and includes:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Institute for Computational Linguistics
Jean-Pierre Colson, Université catholique de Louvain
Gloria Corpas, University of Malaga
Dimitrij Dobrovolskij, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Language Institute
Thierry Fontenelle, Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Cyprus
Patrick Hanks, University of Wolverhampton
Ulrich Heid, University of Hildesheim
MiloÅ¡ JakubÃÄek, Sketch Engine
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin
Simon Krek, University of Ljubljana
Pedro Mogorrón Huerta, University of Alicante
Johanna Monti, University of Sassari
Sara Moze, University of Wolverhampton
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Michael Oakes, University of Wolverhampton
Magali Paquot, Université catholique de Louvain
Carlos Ramisch, Laboratoire dâInformatique Fondamentale de Marseille
Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva
Yvonne Skalban, University of Wolverhampton
Kathrin Steyer, Institute of German language
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Michael Zock, Laboratoire dâInformatique Fondamentale de Marseille
Conference Chair
The conference Chair is Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton.
Organisation and sponsors
The forthcoming international conference Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology Recent advances and interdisciplinary approaches is jointly organised by the European Association for Phraseology EUROPHRAS, the University of Wolverhampton (Research Institute of Information and Language Processing) and the Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics.
Europhras and the Sketch Engine are the official sponsors of the conference.
Further information and contact details
The first call for papers is expected in January 2017 and registration will be open as from April 2017.
The conference website (http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/europhras2017/) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email europhras2017@wlv.ac.uk.
To register for this event, please send an email to Rachelle Vessey (r.vessey@bbk.ac.uk) and include the following details:
Name
Affiliation
Email address
Please also indicate if you would like to join in the group lunch, which will be at Byron (https://www.byronhamburgers.com/store-street/).
There are limited spaces available for this event and also limited availability for lunch. Registration and reservations for lunch will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Practical information
In the tradition of all Corpus Linguistics in the South events, there will be no charge for participation or attendance. Coffee and refreshments will be provided and participants will be welcome to attend an optional lunch (cost approximately £15). Please note we do not have any funds from which to assist with transport or accommodation. Birkbeck, University of London is located in the heart of Bloomsbury and is easily accessible by public transportation. More details on our central London campus can be found here.
This event is being organised by Rachelle Vessey.
The Graphic Online Language Diagnostic (“GOLD”) is a corpus tool that allows language educators to submit and analyze language data. GOLD was developed by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (“CALPER”) at The Pennsylvania State University (“PSU”), University Park, PA, USA under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI, P229A060003 and P229A020010).
Link here: http://gold.gwserver1.net