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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics:<br>
First Announcement and Call for Participation</span></b><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The UCREL research centre (Department of Linguistics & English Language and School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University) is pleased to announce its second annual
<i>Summer School in Corpus Linguistics</i>. This will take place on Tuesday 10</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">,
Wednesday 11</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">, and Thursday 12</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">
July 2012 (half-days Wednesday and Friday, full-day Thursday).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The event is free to attend, but registration
<b><i>in advance</i></b> is compulsory, as places are limited. We are now inviting applications from anyone interested in participating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The UCREL Summer School is intended primarily for postgraduate research students (and secondarily for Masters-level students and postdoctoral researchers) who require in-depth knowledge
of corpus-based methodologies for their degree projects. It is not aimed at raw beginners, but rather at PhD students who have at least some introductory experience of analysis using language corpora, and who wish to expand their knowledge of key issues and
techniques in cutting-edge corpus research.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The programme consists of a series of intensive two-hour sessions, some involving practical work, others more discussion-oriented. Tutors and their session titles are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">*
<b>Paul Baker</b>: <i>Corpus-based discourse analysis</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Jonathan Culpeper</b>: <i>Pragmatics in (historical) corpus data</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Costas Gabrielatos</b>: <i>Corpora and sociolinguistics: studying linguistic innovators</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Andrew Hardie</b>: <i>Designing and documenting a corpus</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Geoffrey Leech</b>: <i>Comparable corpora and recent changes in English grammar</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Tony McEnery</b>: <i>Ethical issues in corpus-based research</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">*<b> Paul Rayson</b>: <i>Collocation across semantic categories in Wmatrix</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">*
<b>Andrew Wilson</b>: <i>Corpus statistics – more than just the basics </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Please note that this is
<i>a repeat of the 2011 programme</i>, due to the high demand for places last year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/hardiea/ucrel-ss/provisional-programme-2012.pdf"><b><span style="color:#003AA1;text-decoration:none">A provisional programme can be accessed
via this link</span></b></a><b>.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">How to register</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">All PhD students who feel they would benefit from attending the UCREL Summer School are invited to apply for a place. UK and overseas students are equally eligible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Postdoctoral researchers and Masters-degree-level students are also welcome to apply, but in the event of excess demand, priority will be given to PhD students. Otherwise, places
will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">As noted above, there is no fee for attending; however participants will be responsible for arranging their own travel, accommodation, and food (lunch will be provided on the full
day of Wednesday 11</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> July).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">To apply for a place in the Summer School, you should fill in the registration form: available
<a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/hardiea/ucrel-ss/ucrel-ss-reg-form.rtf"><b><span style="color:#003AA1;text-decoration:none">in RTF format</span></b></a><b> for completion on computer,
<a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/hardiea/ucrel-ss/ucrel-ss-reg-form.pdf"><span style="color:#003AA1;text-decoration:none">in PDF format</span></a> for printing out.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Once you have completed the form, return it to Amanda Potts by email (preferably; to
<a href="mailto:a.potts@lancaster.ac.uk"><span style="color:#003AA1;text-decoration:none">a.potts@lancaster.ac.uk</span></a>) or by post (if necessary) at the following address:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Department of Linguistics and English Language,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YL, United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">In addition to sending in the form</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">, we also require your supervisor to write
to us <i>briefly</i>, confirming that they support your application and that they expect your PhD research to benefit from attending the UCREL Summer School. This letter in support should also be directed to Amanda Potts, again preferably by email. (If you
are a postdoctoral researcher, please ask your Principal Investigator or other research team leader to write in support of your application.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Your application is not complete until we have received
<i>both</i> your form <i>and</i> the letter from your supervisor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The deadline for registrations is the 25</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">
May 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Any queries about the UCREL Summer School can also be sent to Amanda Potts who is the main contact person for the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">A scheduling note</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The UCREL Summer School has been scheduled directly before the
<a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconference"><span style="color:#003AA1;text-decoration:none">Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching</span></a> (Friday 13</span><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">
July 2012), for the convenience of students who may wish to attend both events. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">However, there is no expectation that people attending the Summer School will
<i>necessarily</i> also attend the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Lancaster University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">UCREL:
<a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#003AA1">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Linguistics & English Language:
<a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#003AA1">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Computing & Communications:
<a href="http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#003AA1">http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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