corpus linguistics

Language is never, ever, ever random

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“Language is never, ever, ever random” (Kilgarriff, 2005), not in its usage, not in its acquisition, and not in its processing. (Nick C. Ellis, 2017, p. 41) Nick C. Ellis (2017). Cognition, Corpora, and Computing: Triangulating Research in Usage-Based Language Learning. Language Learning 67(S1), pp. 40–65

Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE)

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The Corpus of North American Spoken English (CoNASE), a 1.25-billion-word corpus of geolocated automatic speech-to-text transcripts, is now available in a beta version. URL http://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats/CoNASE.html for more information. The corpus was created from 301,847 ASR transcripts from 2,572 YouTube channels, corresponding to 154,041 hours of video. The size of the corpus is 1,252,066,371 word tokens. … Read more

Jornada de difusión online proyecto de investigación Nutcracker, 24-25 junio 2021

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NUTCRACKER: Sistema de detección, rastreo, monitorización y análisis del discurso terrorista en la Red Funded by: MINECO. 2017-2020. FFI2016-79748-R Proyectos I+d+I – Programa estatal de investigación, desarrollo e innovación orientada a los retos de la sociedad. “Nutcracker: System for Detection, Tracking, Monitoring and Analysis of the Discourse of Terror on the Net” LINK 24 JUNE … Read more

Where´ is home? EU citizens as migrants.

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Approaches to migration, language and identity 2020 AMLI Conference (www) University of Sussex, Wednesday 9 – Friday 11 June 2021 Book of abstracts. Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Elena RemigiUniversidad de Murcia / The In Limbo Project When? Thursday June 10, Panel A: Foregrounding migrant perspectives 11:25 UK time Abstract Since January 2021, UK and EU citizens can no longer … Read more

How learners are using corpora in EMI contexts

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This talk was part of Cambridge University Press ELS Insights on Demand. You can download my presentation slides here. Here´s a list of the references I used in this presentation: Biber, D. (2019). Text-linguistic approaches to register variation. Register Studies, 1(1), 42-75. Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2009). Register, genre, and style. Cambridge University Press. Brian, A. (2020). A case study of corpus-informed ESP language learning materials for EMI psychology students at the University of Padova. Curry, N. & Pérez-Paredes, P. (2021). Understanding Lecturers’ Practices and Processes: A Qualitative Investigation of … Read more