<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Corpus Linguistics 2013: <br>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The seventh international <b>Corpus Linguistics</b> conference (<b>CL2013</b>) will be held at Lancaster University from Tuesday 23<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">rd</span></font></sup> July 2013 to Friday 26<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup> July 2013. The main conference will be preceded by a workshop day on Monday 22<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">nd</span></font></sup> July.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The goals of the conference are as follows.</p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">To gather together current and developing research in the study and application of corpus linguistics;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">To push the field forwards by promoting dialogue among the many different users of corpora across interconnected sub-disciplines of linguistics – be they descriptive, theoretical, applied or computational;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">To explore new challenges both within corpus linguistics, and in the extension of corpus approaches to new fields of study.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">With these goals in mind, we invite contributions on as broad and inclusive a basis as possible. The areas in which we particularly welcome submissions include but are not limited to:</p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span>Critical explorations of existing measures and methods in corpus linguistics;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span>New methods and techniques in corpus development, annotation and analysis;</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></font></span>Corpus approaches to the study of new media;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">New tools and techniques developed in corpus-based computational linguistics;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The application of corpus approaches in the social sciences and humanities;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The extension of corpus linguistics to an ever-wider range of (non-English) languages;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The interface between corpus and theory;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The use of corpora in discourse analysis;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The use of corpora in second language acquisition studies and language pedagogy.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The following speakers have accepted our invitation to give plenary lectures at CL2013:</p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Karin Aijmer<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Guy Cook</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Michael Hoey</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Ute Römer</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">With this announcement, we issue our main <i>Call for Papers</i>, and provide notice of workshops being held on Monday 22<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">nd</span></font></sup> July.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>Call for abstracts for papers, posters and panels<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">We invite submission of abstracts for papers, posters and panels on any topic relevant to the conference themes.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">For this conference, we are requesting <i>extended abstracts</i> (750-1500 words), as we do not plan to produce a volume of conference proceedings. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the conference programme committee.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>Paper presentations</b> will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note: paper submissions should present <i>either</i> complete research, <i>or</i> research in progress where at least some substantial results have been achieved. Work in progress which has yet to produce results can be submitted as a poster abstract – see below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Submissions for <b>panel discussions</b> should take the form of a single 1500 word abstract on behalf of all speakers to be on the panel. The abstract should include a note to specify whether the panel is intended to be 1 hour or 1.5 hours in length.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Submissions for <b>poster presentations</b> should be shorter (400-750 words). We especially welcome poster abstracts that (a) report on innovative research that is in its very earliest phases (b) report on new software or corpus data resources.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">We especially encourage abstract submissions from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">All abstracts must be submitted via the conference website; the submission system will be live from 18<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup> November 2012. A template file, containing instructions for laying out abstracts, is available for download from the submission page.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>Key dates</b></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">18<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup> November 2012 – abstract submission opens via conference website<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">8<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup> January 2013 – deadline for abstract submission</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">15<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup> February 2013 – notification of the outcome of peer review; early bird registration opens.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">1<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">st</span></font></sup> April 2013 – early bird registration closes</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">30<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">th</span></font></sup> June 2013 – final deadline for registration</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">22<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">nd</span></font></sup> / 23<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">rd</span></font></sup> July 2013 – workshop day / main conference begins.</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>Pre-conference workshops<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">On Monday 22<sup><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">nd</span></font></sup> July, the following pre-conference workshops will be offered:</p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; "><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Evaluative Language and Corpus Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Web as Corpus Workshop</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Corpus Analysis with Noise in the Signal</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Annotating Correspondence Corpora</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Compiling and analysing a spoken academic corpus</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">A Fully-annotated Pragmatic Corpus – the SPICE-Ireland Corpus</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">More information – including detailed workshop descriptions and a provisional schedule – will be published as it becomes available on the CL2013 workshop webpage (<a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php</a><span style="color: black; ">)</span>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b>General information<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The conference will be held on the Lancaster University campus; see <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/contact-and-getting-here/maps-and-travel/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/contact-and-getting-here/maps-and-travel/</a> for information.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">For all further information, see the conference website: <a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The conference is hosted by the <b>UCREL</b> research centre (<a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk</a>), which brings together the <b>Department of Linguistics and English Language</b> (<a href="http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/</a>) with the <b>School of Computing and Communications</b> (<a href="http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/</a>).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The <b>local organising committee</b> of CL2013 is made up of: Amanda Potts, Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery, and Paul Rayson.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Visit the committees page (<a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/committee.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/committee.php</a>) for a list of members of the <b>programme committee</b> of CL2013.</p></div></body></html>