ESRC seminar Interdisciplinary approaches to vocabulary - 11-12 January UWE Bristol

[Brian Richards]

MessagePlease see the announcement below from Jeanine Treffers-Daller.

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ESRC Seminar announcement: 

"Interdisciplinary approaches: Vocabulary in stylometrics, psycholinguistics, forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics and clinical linguistics - UWE, Bristol, 11-12 January 2007.

This meeting will focus on the assessment of vocabulary across a range of disciplines. As researchers are often unaware of the way lexis is analysed in neighbouring disciplines, the seminar will be set up to enhance exchanges of theories, hypotheses and methods of analysis.

 

Key questions are:

How can models and theories of vocabulary acquisition, lexical knowledge and lexical organisation from the different fields (corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, stylometry, clinical linguistics, psycholinguistics) be adapted to incorporate insights from neigbouring disciplines? 

How can methods used to investigate or assess vocabulary in one field be applied in other fields?

 

The seminar is part of an ESRC seminar series jointly organised by the University of the West of England, Bristol (Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Helmut Daller), The University of Swansea (Paul Meara, James Milton) and the University of Reading (David Malvern, Brian Richards).

 

The keynote speakers will be: 

Tony McEnery (Director of Research, AHRC) “Exploring epistemic modality in learner English”

John Read (Auckland, NZ; Visiting Scholar University of Michigan) “Re-examining the role of lexical measures in the field of language testing”

Sue Roulstone (UWE Bristol) “The vocabulary of speech and language therapy”

 

Please contact Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk or Helmut.Daller at uwe.ac.uk

 if you would like to participate. The seminar is sponsored by the ESRC and there will be no conference fee, but the number of participants will be limited to twenty maximum. It is possible to attend the seminar without giving a paper, but places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. Speech and language therapists and other practitioners working in related fields are particularly encouraged to attend.

If you wish to give a paper the deadline for receipt of abstracts is Monday 4 December 2006.

Format for abstracts: 300 words (Times New Roman 10 pts).

Venue:      UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus, School of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies - www.uwe.ac.uk

 


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Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Professor of Linguistics
University of the West of England, Bristol
School of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
Frenchay Campus
Coldharbour Lane
Bristol
BS16 1QY
tel. 0117- 3282390

 


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