Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
This free MOOC Offers practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities. It is an 8-week course and is run by Lancaster University. More information here.
An NPR feature which disccusses W. Pennebaker contribution to human use of words. This was also the subject of my own contribution to the 2010 World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies within the session “Interdisciplinary research between Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology” at Boston University, MA.
From the wp.lancs.ac.uk site: Geoff Leech was born in Gloucester in 1936. He studied at University College London for his BA, MA, and PhD, and taught there as a lecturer. He came to Lancaster in 1969 as one of the first language specialists in the English Department, and in 1974 he became the first Head … Read more
Submissions for a Special Issue of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, entitled “Under-resourced Languages, Collaborative Approaches and Linked Open Data: Resources, Methods and Applications”. Important: More detailed information will be made available in September 2014. For more information please contact the guest editors. PRELIMINARY SUBMISSION DATE: November 15, 2014 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSUnder-resourced languages are … Read more
Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto São Paulo Catholic University Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and … Read more
Current Work in Corpus Linguistics: Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond Welcome to Valladolid for the CILC2015, the seventh edition of the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics organized by AELINCO, the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics and hosted this year by the Department of English and the International Centre for Lexicography (University of de … Read more