Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
14th American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL) Conference – September 20-22, 2018 in Atlanta, GA CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL (http://alsl.gsu.edu/) at Georgia State University (GSU) is excited to host the 14th Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL), 20-22 September 2018 on the GSU main campus in downtown Atlanta, GA. … Read more
Sketch Engine online CQL manual/tutorial here. CQL basics Search structures Word Sketches in CQL
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