<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><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Registration is now open for the seventh international Corpus Linguistics</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">conference (CL2013), which will be held at Lancaster University from</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Tuesday 23rd July 2013 to Friday 26th July 2013. The main conference will</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">be preceded by a workshop day on Monday 22nd July.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">We are pleased to issue our first official call for participation, which</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">includes details on registering for the workshop day and the main</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">conference, discounted on-campus accommodation, and the first announcement</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">of bursaries available to postgraduate students attending CL2013.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">WORKSHOP DAY</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">We invite registration for the pre-conference workshop day. You can</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">register for this day either in addition to or separately from the main</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">conference. Participants have the choice of the following CL2013 workshops:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* Full day: Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* Full day: Workshop on Arabic Corpus LInguistics</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* Full day: Web as Corpus Workshop</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* Full day: A Fully-annotated Pragmatic Corpus – the SPICE-Ireland Corpus</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* Full day: Annotating Correspondence Corpora</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">* Two half-day sessions:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Compiling and Analysing a Spoken Academic Corpus (mornining) and/or</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "> * Corpus Analysis with Noise in the Signal (afternoon)</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">A reduced registration fee for postgraduate students is available. Please</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">visit <a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/workshops.php</a> for more details.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">MAIN CONFERENCE</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The main conference will run over four days, and will include plenary</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">lectures from Karin Aijmer, Guy Cook, Michael Hoey, and Ute Römer.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Participants are invited to register for the full conference. It is also</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">possible to register for a single day (or days) of the conference. Reduced</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">postgraduate rates are available, and early bird rates are in effect until</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">15th April 2013. Please see our website for full detais.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">We are pleased to announce that we are able to offer a limited number of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">bursaries to postgraduate students attending the conference. Bursaries</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">will cover the cost of registration to the workshop day; the full main</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">conference; and up to five nights' on-campus accommodation. Holders of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">bursaries must, however, cover all their own travel costs. To qualify, you</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">must be a current full-time research student at any university worldwide.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Applications will be considered complete if two email messages have been</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">received at <a href="mailto:cl2013@lancaster.ac.uk">cl2013@lancaster.ac.uk</a>, before 15th April 2013:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">1) One message from the applicant stating name, department, university,</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">degree, and field of research. In this email, please be sure to include</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">proof of your student status (e.g. a letter from your department, or a</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">scan of your student identification card or document);</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">2) A letter of support from your academic supervisor, stating how they</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">believe you would benefit from winning a bursary and attending the</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">conference.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">All postgraduates attending the conference are welcome to apply, but</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">priority will be given to applicants presenting papers or posters at the</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">main conference.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">CL2013 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">********************</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Please visit <a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php</a> to register for</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">CL2013.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">All registration fees include daily lunch and dinner, and participants</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">attending the full conference will receive a complimentary subscription to</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Corpora journal.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Reduced-rate on-campus bed and breakfast accommodation can also be booked</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">using this service.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Early bird rates are available until 15th April 2013.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">We look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">Amanda Potts, Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery, and Paul Rayson</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">The CL2013 Organising Committee</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013">http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013</a></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:cl2013@lancaster.ac.uk">cl2013@lancaster.ac.uk</a></div></div></body></html>