22.2213, Confs: Text/Corpus Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 22.2213, Confs: Text/Corpus Linguistics/UK

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Date: 25-May-2011
From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy [r.krishnamurthy at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Aston Corpus Summer School

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:14:01
From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy [r.krishnamurthy at aston.ac.uk]
Subject: Aston Corpus Summer School

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Aston Corpus Summer School 

Date: 01-Aug-2011 - 05-Aug-2011 
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom 
Contact: Ramesh Krishnamurthy 
Contact Email: r.krishnamurthy at aston.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/SummerSchool.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Introduction to the use of corpora in various areas: language learning/teaching, lexicography, translation, literary stylistics, metaphor, critical discourse analysis, etc using various types of data: monolingual, multilingual, parallel, diachronic, annotated, etc. Including practical, hands-on exercises with various software tools and datasets. 

1. Introduction To Corpus Linguistics - Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston) 	(key concepts, history, design/creation/copyright, software, analysis, annotation, etc) 
2. Diachronic Corpora (Penn corpora) - Dr Carola Trips (Mannheim, Germany) 
3. Keywords and Literature (WordSmith Tools) - Dr Mike Scott (Aston) 
4. Multilingual and Parallel Corpora (Multiconcord) - Philip King (Aston) 
5. Translation - Patricia Rodríguez-Inés (Barcelona, Spain)
6. Critical Discourse Analysis, Language & Gender, Feminism - Dr Sylvia Jaworska (Queen Mary, London) 
7. EAP and Lexicography (SketchEngine) - Dr Iztok Kosem (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 
8. Spoken Data (GeWiss project), Language Learning/Teaching (ACORN project) -Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston) 
9. Metaphor - Klaus Thiele (Aston)
10. Learner Corpora (ICLE) - Dr Cem Can (Adana, Turkey)

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