[Corpora-List] 2011 Symposium on Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics, University of Alabama

Wed Oct 27 13:14:07 UTC 2010

Sorry for any cross posting. The deadline for proposals for the symposium is November 15. There is no registration fee for the symposium and those whose proposals are accepted will be provided with room and board free.

Dilin Liu

2011 Symposium on “Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics”

April 15-17

University of Alabama

Aim/Theme: This symposium aims to explore the boundaries and applications of corpus linguistics, especially its relationship with and application to neighboring disciplines such as cognitive linguistics, comparative linguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, historical linguistics, language learning/teaching, literary analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and writing (both academic and creative).

Keynote Speakers

Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics, Brigham Young University

Speech title: Change then and change now: Mapping linguistic changes in English with the Corpus of Historical American English and the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Professor Davies is the author of more than fifty publications on corpus design and use (including many studies on using corpora to look at changes in morphosyntax), and has received several large grants from the US government (National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation) to design and create large historical corpora. He is the creator of several corpora at corpus.byu.edu, which are used by 70,000-80,000 unique users every month. These include the 420 million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (1990-2010), the new 400 million-word Corpus of Historical American English (1810-2009), the 100 million-word TIME Corpus (1920s-2000s), the interface to the British National Corpus, the Corpus del Español, and the Corpus do Português.

Stefan, Th. Gries, Professor of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara

Speech title: Marrying corpus linguistics with cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics: Some whys and hows

Professor Gries is a quantitative corpus linguist at the intersection of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, who uses a variety of different statistical methods to investigate linguistic topics such as morpho-phonology, syntax and the syntax-lexis interface, semantics, first and second language acquisition, as well as corpus-linguistic methodology. Theoretically, he is a cognitively-oriented linguist (with an interest in Construction Grammar) in the wider sense of seeking explanations in terms of cognitive processes. Professor Gries has published extensively including three authored books and three co-edited books on cognitive linguistics/corpus linguistics, as well as numerous articles in leading journals in his specialization areas and other linguistic areas. Professor Gries is also the founding editor in chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, associate editor of Cognitive Linguistics, and

performs editorial functions for Constructions and Frames, Language and Cognition, and CogniTextes.

Michaela Mahlberg, Associate Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Speech title: Corpus Stylistics: What a corpus approach can tell us about fictional worlds

Professor Mahlberg specializes in corpus-based discourse and literary analysis. Her publications include two authored books English General Nouns: a Corpus Theoretical Approach and Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis (jointly with M. Hoey, M. Stubbs and W. Teubert) and three co-edited books, as well as many book chapters and journal articles. She is the editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (John Benjamins), and co-editor of the series Corpus and Discourse (Continuum). She is currently finalizing a book on Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction (Routledge).

Proposal Submission

The 2011 English Department Symposium on “Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics” is calling for proposals related to the theme of the symposium. Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for 30-minute papers on any topic suitable for the symposium including, but not limited to, the following: the use of corpora for the study of cognitive/comparative/forensic/historical/ sociolinguistic issues, discourse analysis, language learning/teaching, lexicography, literary analysis (i.e. the analysis of literary works in terms of genre and style), and register/genre variation; corpus creation for specific purposes; as well as the development and use of parallel corpora.

Abstracts are due November 15, 2010. Abstracts should be 200-300 words in length and be submitted to 2011 symposium2011 at as.ua.edu. Notification of decisions on proposals will be sent via email on December 15.

Registration: Registration is free. Those whose proposals are accepted will be provided with free hotel accommodation for two nights (April 15 and 16, double occupancy). The symposium will also provide transportation for speakers from the Birmingham airport to Tuscaloosa/UA where the symposium will be held.

Venue: The symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. For information about the University, please check http://www.ua.edu/

For information about the city of Tuscaloosa, please check http://www.ci.tuscaloosa.al.us/index.aspx?NID=134

Session Schedule: It will be available January 5, 2010.

For more information, please go to http://www.as.ua.edu/english/sym2011index.html

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