[Corpora-List] Short Intensive Course

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Short intensive course:

TEXT, DISCOURSE AND CORPORA:
corpora in linguistics and related fields

Corpus linguistics has opened new ways of studying and
describing language and corpora continue to offer
innovative paths in various fields. In addition to
general aspects of corpus linguistics, this course
gives special emphasis to meaning in texts as units
of discourse.

The course is a joint project by the Tuscan Word Centre
and the University of Saarbrücken

Dates: SEPTEMBER 14th - 19th 2004

Place: Medienzentrum, Saarland University,
Saarbrücken, Germany

Topic leaders:
Prof. John Sinclair  (TWC Italy)
Prof. Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham)
Michaela Mahlberg  (Saarland University)

Guest lecturers:
Prof. Michael Stubbs (University of Trier)
Prof. Erich Steiner (Saarland University)
Dr. Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Saarland University)

The course will give an overview of the main topics in
corpus work, e.g. corpus design and compilation,
research tools, corpus linguistic approaches to the
description of language, monolingual and multilingual
corpora, applied corpus linguistics (ELT, translation
studies, literary studies, etc.). On the one hand the
course aims to provide a basis that will prove useful
to the individual work of participants. On the other
hand, the course offers a forum to discuss innovative
approaches in corpus linguistics and to establish
interdisciplinary links. A recent development in corpus
linguistics is the application to textlinguistics and
discourse studies. In this area the course will present
cutting-edge research. A corpus linguistic approach to
the properties of texts will illustrate how corpora can
provide a link between different research fields
concerned with language. The expertise of international
lecturers ensures a high-level course and intensive
coverage of the topics.

Detailed course information available at
http://fr46.uni-saarland.de/tdc2004/

Enquiries to Michaela Mahlberg,
m.mahlberg at mx.uni-saarland.de

Information on the Tuscan Word Centre at
http://www.twc.it

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