Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
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 BBC website.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
The 14th meeting of Corpus Linguistics in the South will be held on Saturday March 4, 2017 at Birkbeck, University of London. 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 … Read more
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 … Read more