[Corpora-List] The Tuscan Word Centre Courses 2003

[T.W.C. - Information]

First Announcement:  THE TUSCAN WORD CENTRE

Courses  2003
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The Courses at The Tuscan Word Centre are intensive
residential workshop/seminar-style events, restricted
to around twenty participants or fewer.  Topic Leaders
with international reputations are available throughout
in an informal atmosphere, amid the Tuscan countryside.
Accommodation is simple and comfortable and the meals
show Tuscan country cuisine at its best.

Early application is recommended.  Contact John Sinclair:

mailto:courses at twc.it  website http://www.twc.it

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19th-22nd May 2003
HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK

Guest Topic Leaders:
Prof Geoffrey Leech, University of Lancaster
Mr Martin Wynne, Oxford Text Archive
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26th-29th May 2003
HOW TO USE CORPORA IN LANGUAGE WORK – multilingual focus

Guest Topic Leaders:
Prof. Wolfgang Teubert, University of Birmingham
Prof. Yang Hui-Zhong, Jaio Tong University, Shanghai

Guest Lecturer: Prof. Alan Partington,
University of Camerino
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Resident Team - both courses:
Prof Elena Tognini Bonelli, University of Lecce
Prof John Sinclair, The Tuscan Word Centre
Dr Pernilla Daniellson, University of Birmingham

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Each full day includes two presentations by topic leaders,
two "hands-on" sessions related to the topics
and opportunities for interventions by participants.
The computer laboratory is open from 0800-2300 daily.


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TWC runs such a course every year; it is open to
advanced students and researchers, and workers
in the language industries, and it is relevant to
  all who are interested in the present state of
corpus work and the potential for the future.

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Topics to be covered - Provisional List:

Developing Linguistic Corpora:
Use of corpora in syntax studies.
Diachronic changes in recent English.
Functionally-complete Units of Meaning:
A contextual theory of meaning
Software for corpus access and analysis
Lexical items and phraseology

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    +            MULTILINGUAL FOCUS             +
    +          26th-29th May inclusive          +
    +         (arrive 25rd, depart 30th)        +
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This course is designed for people who study languages
either academically or professionally, and who see the
need to understand the value of text corpora in their
work. With its multilingual focus it is particularly
suitable for translators, lexicographers and language
teachers.

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Course Content

Topics to be covered: provisional list

Corpora and discourse
Types of computer corpora
Corpus Management and Use
Learner corpora
Parallel corpora and alignment
Functionally-complete Units of Meaning
A contextual theory of meaning
Lexical items and phraseology

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The Tuscan Word Centre

For further information about the courses,
about TWC, its superb location and facilities,
refer to the website http://www.twc.it
or send an e-mail to mailto:courses at twc.it


The overall cost of each course is 1500 euros
This includes:
    -participation
    -accommodation
    -all meals
    -local transport
There is a strict limit on the number of places,
so please apply early.

**fee reduction for anyone taking both courses**

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