27.1835, Confs: English, Computational Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Subject: 27.1835, Confs: English, Computational Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus Ling/France

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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:19:31
From: Graham Ranger [Graham.Ranger at univ-avignon.fr]
Subject: New Approaches to Corpus in English Linguistics

New Approaches to Corpus in English Linguistics 
Short Title: nacla1 

Date: 09-Jun-2016 - 10-Jun-2016 
Location: Avignon, France 
Contact: Graham Ranger 
Contact Email: Graham.Ranger at univ-avignon.fr 
Meeting URL: http://nacla1.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

It is historically the case that linguists interested in pragmatic phenomena
-- whether in terms of speech act theory, relevance theory, argumentation,
enunciation, etc. -- have not always made use of corpora or, when they have
done so, have used them in a spirit of ''illustrative eclecticism'' (Kohnen
2015:56), drawing on genuine examples to illustrate a theoretical perspective.
In recent years various semasiological approaches have considered how the
apparent polysemies of a given marker can be fruitfully explained in terms of
complex configurations, as the postulated semantic potentials of cooccurring
items interact to generate contextually situated values. Such an approach
opens new perspectives for quantitative exploitation of corpus material in
theories which have traditionally stressed qualitative analysis of a limited
number of cases. The technology of corpus enquiry now enables us to conduct
sophisticated searches in terms of collocational affinities, bearing on data
which can -- according to how the corpus is tagged and marked up -- involve
linguistic and paralinguistic features both (pauses, overlaps, speakers'
identities, textual genres etc.).

The aim of the present conference is therefore to investigate the usefulness
and relevance of the quantitative analysis of corpus data of English and
Englishes, in those areas of linguistic research where a more qualitative,
fine-grained approach has traditionally prevailed. Issues addressed might
include:

- Semantico-pragmatic profiling of specific markers or configurations of
markers via quantitative corpus-based data
- Preprocessing requirements on corpora with a view to such research, i.e.
specific or ad hoc tagging or mark up conventions
- Types of corpus enquiry, tools, syntax and/or algorithms relevant to such
research

In keeping with the programme of our local research group Identité Culturelle,
Textes et Théâtralité, studies that address issues of corpus approaches to
linguistic identities are also encouraged.

We will be pleased and honoured to welcome as our guest speakers Professors
Lucie Gournay and Sebastian Hoffmann.

Lucie Gournay is Professor of Linguistics and director of a research group on
linguistics and language-teaching didactics, within the laboratory EA IMAGER,
at the University Paris-Est Créteil. She practises an enunciative approach to
linguistics, oriented in particular towards contrastive questions. Professor
Gournay will be considering corpus-building issues in the study of complex
syntactic constructions.

Sebastian Hoffmann is Professor of English Linguistics at Trier University.
His research predominantly focuses on the application of usage-based
approaches to the study of language.He is a co-author of BNCweb, a
user-friendly web-interface to the British National Corpus, which also forms
the basis for his textbook publication /Corpus Linguistics with BNCweb – a
Practical Guide /(Peter Lang, 2008; with S. Evert, N. Smith, D. Lee and Y.
Berglund-Prytz).

Supported by ICTT EA 4277 http://ictt.univ-avignon.fr, Agorantic
http://agorantic.univ-avignon.fr/ and the Université d'Avignon et des Pays de
Vaucluse www.univ-avignon.fr

Kohnen, Thomas. 2014. ''Speech Acts: a diachronic perspective'', in Corpus
Pragmatics. A Handbook. Aijmer, K. and Rühlemann, C. (eds.), Cambridge
University Press.
Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, Text/Corpus
Linguistics

Programme:

Introduction

NACLA1 aims to provide a space for dialogue between quantitative and
qualitative approaches to data generated from linguistic corpora of English.
The programme below groups together papers by topic area and the language in
which the paper is given.

Conference programme

9 June 2016

8h30-09h00    
Registration

9h00-09h30    
Presentation

9h30-10h40   
Keynote speaker : Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier) (0E32)

10h40-11h00 Coffee break

Contrastive approaches (0E32)

11h00-11h40    
Antonina Bondarenko (Université Paris Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP)
Verbless Sentences: A corpus-based contrastive study

11h40-12h20   
Laura Ascone (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, AGORA)
Action and interaction through the expression of emotions in CMC: a corpus
analysis of chats by English, French and Italian native speakers

12h20-14h00 Lunch at the refectory

Parallel session 1 : Issues in corpus design (0E32)

14h00-14h40    
Rossi Caroline (Université Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA4), Camille Biros (Université
Grenoble Alpes, ILCEA4), Hélène Schmutz, Christophe Roncato
The case for environmental justice: tracking variation in do-it-yourself vs.
web corpora

14h40-15h20    
Almaged Sadiq (Swansea University)
Bringing in Harmony: Data Representativeness in Corpus Linguistics and
Critical Discourse Analysis

Parallel session 2 : Markers in context (0E31)

14h00-14h40    
Saghie Sharifzadeh (Université Paris-Sorbonne, CeLiSo)
DO auxiliaire + prédicats d'action : une propension nulle en anglais
contemporain

14h40-15h20 Gilles Cloiseau (Université Orléans, LLL), François Nemo, Fanny
Krimou
Corpus oraux, prosodie et linguistique pragmatique : l'exemple de « yes »

15h20-15h40 Coffee break

Acquisition (0E32)

15h40-16h20    
Amandine Dumont (Université catholique de Louvain, Centre for English Corpus
Linguistics)
A corpus-driven approach to native and learner spoken fluency: The
contribution of pauses

16h20-17h00    
Takeshi Okada (Tohoku University)
Toward EFL Learner Annotated Corpora: A New Markup Convention

19h30 Dinner in town

10 June 2016

9h00-09h30 
Late registration

9h30-10h40    
Keynote speaker : Lucie Gournay (Université Paris Est, IMAGER) (0E32)

10h40-11h00 Coffee break

Parallel session 3 : Tools and applications (0E32)

11h00-11h40    
Guillaume Desagulier (Université Paris 8, UMR 7114 MoDyCo)
Solving long-standing semantic annotation issues with word vectors

11h40-12h20 Martin Weisser (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, CN
National Key Research Center for Linguistics & Applied Linguistics)
The DART Annotation Scheme: Form, Application & Appliability

12h20-13h00 Emma Moreton (Coventry University), Rachele De Felice (University
College, London)
Identifying speech acts in a corpus of historical migrant correspondence

Parallel session 4 : Discourse analysis, oral corpora (0E31)

11h00-11h40 Bonnot Charles (Université Paris Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP)
Etude quantitative des swearwords dans les documentaires musicaux : démarche
heuristique, questions méthodologiques et limites théoriques

11h40-12h20    
Ledouble Hélène (Université de Toulon, Babel), Emmanuel Marty (Université de
Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Analyse de la couverture médiatique des primaires américaines par ses
quotidiens nationaux : une approche lexicométrique

12h20-13h00    
Leonarduzzi Laetitia (Aix-Marseille Université, LPL), Sophie Herment
(Aix-Marseille Université, LPL), Gabor Turcsan (Aix-Marseille Université, LPL)
Constitution et exploitation de corpus oraux : illustration

13h00-14h20 Lunch at the refectory

Parallel session 5 : Contrastive approaches (0E32)

14h20-15h00    
Leszek Symanski (University of Zielona Gora)
The interrelation between the modal ''can'' and the grammatical aspect of the
main verb in contemporary American English ? an empirical contribution to
modality-aspect interaction studies.

15h00-15h40    
Alena Krivikhina (Université Paris Diderot)
Vagueness in Diplomatic and Normative Texts: a Parallel and Comparable
Corpora-Based Approach

Parallel session 6 : Corpus and affectivity (0E31)

14h20-15h00    
Léo Muelle (Université Paris Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP)
A corpus-based approach to emotions and pseudonymity in Computer Mediated
Communication

15h00-15h40    
Jamie McKeown (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Affective Sentiment in the Non-Adoption of Transmedia Texts: A Corpus Based
Investigation of Gender Difference

15h40-16h20 
Closing session

17h00-18h30   
Cultural visit of the Vaucluse Archives

Support

Supported by ICTT EA 4277 http://ictt.univ-avignon.fr, the SFR Agorantic
http://agorantic.univ-avignon.fr/, the Université d'Avignon et des Pays de
Vaucluse www.univ-avignon.fr and the MAIF www.maif.fr

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