<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span>First announcement<br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span><span>Corpus</span> <span>Linguistics</span> <span>in</span>
<span>the</span> <span>South</span> 9 </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span>Computation, Corpora and Critique</span></i><br>
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<span>We are pleased to announce that <span>the</span> ninth CLS event will take place on <b>Saturday, 18 April 2015</b> at <b><span>Oxford Brookes University</span></b>.
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<span><span>Twenty years after the publication of the seminal
paper by Hardt-Mautner (1995), the use of computer-aided methods and
increasingly large corpora to analyse issues at the discourse/society
interface is well established. The aim of this workshop is to invite
exploration and discussion of the key methodological, theoretical and
practical issues in this burgeoning field. <br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span>In particular, w</span></span><span>e welcome proposals for papers that:</span><br>
</p><ul><li>c<span>onceptually examine </span>the issues raised in
employing automated procedures for the analysis of social semiotic
issues. Does it remain true that the ‘historical knowledge and
sensitivity’ required for critical interpretation ‘can be possessed by
human beings but not by machines’ (Fowler 1991: 68)?</li><li><span>discuss
innovations in methods and techniques (of annotation, classification,
inference, etc.) that have enhanced the possibilities for critical
analyses of language and discourse.</span> How far have we moved from<span><span><span><span>Fowler and Kress's (1979: 197) assertion that</span></span> ‘there is no analytic routine through which a text can be run with a critical description issuing automatically at the end’?</span></span></li><li><span>present specific cases of corpus-based critical studies of discourse, </span><span>reflecting on the advantages and limitations of the approach</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal">
<span>Presentations should be 30 minutes in length, and will be followed by 15 minutes
for discussion.
Please send your abstract to <a href="mailto:alischinsky@brookes.ac.uk" target="_blank">alischinsky@brookes.ac.uk</a> by 14th March 2015. Acceptance of submitted abstracts will be notified by the end of March. </span><br>
<br><span>In</span> keeping with prior <span>Corpus</span> <span>Linguistics</span> <span>in</span> <span>the</span> <span>South</span> events,
participation <span>in</span> <span>the</span> workshop is free. Please be aware that <span>the</span> number of
places is limited, and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Best wishes,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><br>
Andrea, Paul and Alon<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></p><div class=""><div id=":2nm" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">-- <br><div>Dr Alon Lischinsky<br>Senior Lecturer in Communication & Discourse<br><br>Dr Paul Wickens,<br>Senior Lecturer in English Language and Communication<br><br><div>Dr Andrea Macrae</div>
<div>Senior Lecturer in Stylistics</div><br>Oxford Brookes University</div></font></span></div>