Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
2016 PLIN Day, hosted by the Linguistics Research Unit of UCLouvain in Belgium. After last year’s successful edition on Lexical complexity, this year’s topic is ‘Language and the new (instant) media’. The PLIN Day will take place on 12 May 2016 in Louvain-la-Neuve. More information and registration (free for all Belgian participants) The main objective … Read more
Sinclair, J. 2004. Trust the text. Language, corpus and discourse. London: Routledge.
Thanks to Anne O’Keeffe FREE WEBINARS 13:00 GMT today 26th November, 2015 “‘Appropriate methodologies for studying classroom discourse” Prof. Steve Walsh, Newcastle University Link to webinar: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/maallearnerdiscourse/ 17:00 GMT tomorrow 27th November, 2015 “Using corpora to inform teaching and materials development” Prof. Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University Link to webinar: https://mic.adobeconnect.com/maalissuesinlinguistics/ Recordings of these will … Read more
Ce corpus, constitué à l’été 2015 par Catrine Bang Nilsen, présente 5 interactions spontanées d’environ une heure chacune entre apprenants norvégiens intermédiaires et avancés du français et francophones de France. Sa transcription par Clémence Michel et Jérôme Barbet suit les conventions du corpus CFPQ. Afin de respecter la confidentialité des informateurs, les films des interactions … Read more
Through the Corpora list ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: The Windows program Collocate 1.0 is available for download at michaelbarlow.com. The software extracts collocations in various ways (including n-grams) and provides scores based on MI, t-score and Log Likelihood. This version of the software is now free. If you want to simply check out the functionality of the … Read more
Corpora and Discourse International Conference: Call for papers Siena University Pontignano Conference Centre June 30-July 2, 2016 (June 30 Conference workshop; July 1-2 Main Conference) Main Conference Plenary speakers: Michael Hoey (Liverpool), Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna, WU), Michael Stubbs (Trier) Corpus-based and corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) investigate the employment of corpus techniques to shed light … Read more