[Corpora-List] Meeting vs Symposium vs Conference

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi

A discussion-list is not the best place to find defintions of words -

as you will see from the many postings about the meaning of 'corpus'! :)



If you are simply interested in meaning, then dictionaries are probably

a good place to start.



If you are interested in the actual usages of these words, then look in corpora.



If you want to know the usage within a particular technical field, look within

that field. For example, if you want to know the usage within corpus linguistics,

you could go to the searchable archives of corpora-list, listed at

http://www.hit.uib.no/corpora/

and search each of the terms.



>>From my initial intuition, I think:

a) meeting - the most widely used term, for a number of different events, with many different

variables (casual/arranged, number of participants, restrictions on who can attend, etc etc)

b) conference - widely used, especially within specialised fields, interest groups, and academic/scientific disciplines,

for annual/periodic meetings of specialists; attendance may be restricted by membership,

prior application/selection, etc

c) symposium - a conference that tends to focus on expert speakers, rather than contributions

from a wider range of people; attendance may be restricted as with conferences



best

Ramesh



Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:02:52 +0330
From: Majid Laali <mjlaali at gmail.com>
Subject: [Corpora-List] Meeting vs Symposium vs Conference
To: corpora at uib.no

Hi,

Do meeting, symposium and conference have the same meaning and are they interchangeable? If not, what is the difference in meaning between them?

Thanks in advance,
Majid Laali



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