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<p class="MsoNormal">Many apologies for the delay in posting updated information.
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Ramesh broke his right arm, and can therefore only use his left hand until at least 6th June).<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please check <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/SummerSchool.html">
http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/SummerSchool.html</a> for further updates.<o:p></o:p></p>
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A. PROGRAMME (on 10th Floor, North Wing of Main Building, Aston Uni): <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All sessions will be in the same computer lab, 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm, including practical exercises.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. INTRODUCTION TO CORPUS LINGUISTICS - Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston)
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(key concepts, history, design/creation/copyright, software, analysis, annotation, etc)
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2. DIACHRONIC CORPORA (Penn corpora) - Dr Carola Trips (Mannheim, Germany) <br>
3. KEYWORDS and LITERATURE (WordSmith Tools) - Dr Mike Scott (Aston) <br>
4. MULTILINGUAL and PARALLEL CORPORA (Multiconcord) - Philip King (Aston) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. TRANSLATION - Patricia Rodríguez-Inés (Barcelona, Spain)<br>
6. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, LANGUAGE & GENDER, FEMINISM - Dr Sylvia Jaworska (Queen Mary, London)
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7. EAP and LEXICOGRAPHY (SketchEngine) - Dr Iztok Kosem (Ljubljana, Slovenia) <br>
8. SPOKEN DATA (GeWiss project), LANGUAGE LEARNING/TEACHING (ACORN project) - Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston)
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9. METAPHOR – Klaus Thiele (Aston)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10. LEARNER CORPORA (ICLE) – Dr Cem Can (Adana, Turkey)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">B. REGISTRATION FEES: <br>
STANDARD FEE: £250; NON-ASTON STUDENTS: £200; ASTON STUDENTS: £150 <br>
1. Fee includes lunches and coffee/tea/etc; but NOT ACCOMMODATION, or evening social events.
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2. STUDENTS must be unwaged, and provide proof of status, e.g. scanned copy of student card emailed to r.powles@aston.ac.uk
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3. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: discount of £25 for online registration/payment before JULY 1st 2011
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4. Online registration form will be available very soon. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">C. ACCOMMODATION: click <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/accommodation2010.doc">
<span style="text-decoration:none">HERE</span></a> for information - note: 2010 prices - will be updated soon.
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D. REPORTS/FEEDBACK: <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/REPORT-2009.doc"><span style="text-decoration:none">Summer School 2009</span></a>,
<a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/REPORT-on-SummerSchool.docx"><span style="text-decoration:none">Summer School 2010</span></a>.
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NOTE: In 2012, we hope to resume the Aston Corpus Symposium and Postgraduate Conference, and introduce an Advanced Summer School.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ramesh Krishnamurthy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Visiting Academic Fellow, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Room: NX01. Tel: 0121-204-3812. <br>
Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): <a href="http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Project Investigator, GeWiss project: <a href="http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/">
<span style="color:blue">http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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