[Corpora-List] *FINAL* CfP: Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies 2014

[Hardie, Andrew]

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The 4th Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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Conference website: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uccts4 

The fourth international *Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation 
Studies* conference (UCCTS4) will be held at Lancaster University from 
Thursday 24th July 2014 to Saturday 26th July 2014.

This announcement contains the second and final Call for Papers for
UCCTS4. The deadline for submissions is **10th JANUARY 2014**.

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Call for Papers
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We invite submissions of papers that report on research in using corpora 
in contrastive linguistics and translation studies. UCCTS4 covers, but 
is not limited to, papers on the following topics:

* Using corpora in translation studies and teaching
* Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with 
  translation studies
* Using corpora in comparing and contrasting languages or language 
  varieties
* Register and genre variation in translation studies
* Corpus-based research of interface between contrastive and translation 
  studies
* Design and development of comparable and parallel corpora
* Processing of multilingual corpora
* Bilingual or contrastive terminology, lexicology and lexicography

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 
minutes for questions and discussion. We request abstracts of 750 words, 
excluding references, for paper presentations.


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About the conference
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UCCTS is a biennial international conference which was launched in 2008 
to provide an international forum for the exploration of the theoretical 
and practical issues pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in 
contrastive and translation studies. The conference is hosted by the 
UCREL research centre, which brings together the Department of 
Linguistics and English Language with the School of Computing and 
Communications at Lancaster.

We are happy to announce that the following speakers have accepted our 
invitation to give plenary lectures at UCCTS4:

* Silvia Bernardini (Bologna University, Italy)
* Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)
* Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University, Ireland)
* Béatrice Lamiroy (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
* Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

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Key Dates
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* 10th January 2014  - DEADLINE for abstract submission
* 28th February 2014 - notification of the outcome of peer review & 
                       early bird registration opens
* 15th April 2014    - early bird registration closes
* 30th June 2014     - final deadline for registration & final deadline 
                       for cancellation with refund of registration fees
* 24-26th July 2014  - conference

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Committees
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The local organising committee is made up of:

* Peter Stevens
* Andrew Hardie
* Tony McEnery
* Richard Xiao

The UCCTS scientific committee consists of:

* Michael Barlow (University of Auckland, Australia)
* Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Bart Defrancq (Ghent University, Belgium)
* Federico Gaspari (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK)
* Sara Laviosa (University of Bari, Italy)
* Defeng Li (SOAS, University of London, UK)
* Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK)
* Paul Rayson (Lancaster Univresity, UK)
* Daniel Van Olmen (Lancaster University, UK)
* Kefei Wang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
* Richard Xiao (Lancaster University, UK)

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Contact Us
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Email: uccts2014 at lancaster.ac.uk



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