[Corpora-List] corpus linguistics

[Khurshid Ahmad]

Dear Antoinette
Congratulations on assuming the presidency of ICAME. I am afraid I cannot
agree with you.  You publish a book and you can post it on your LIST; you
have a new journal and you can post that on the list.  The other name of
such an act is sometimes called product placement - public service
broadcasters in the UK are not allowed to do this kind of stuff.

And, now we have something interesting and, in my view main stream corpus
linguistics stuff.  It is very rare that people come out of their silos
and start talking about grammar, syntax and EVIDENCE in corpora.

The spirit of any internet based activity is that people vote with their
keyboard and if there are only two protagonists, then people tend to get
bored.   Rob is replying to Yorick and then John Sowa joins in: I have
learnt a lot and thanks to your List and long may it continue.

Yours truly

Khurshid
> Antoinette
> The problem with the Freeman-Sowa debate is that it actually was
> about corpus linguistics because Rob F has a view of how to extract
> patters and significance from corpora
> that got tangled up with VERY abstract concepts. But those who cannot
> stand those abstract words should remember where the debate started
> and what Rob's motivation was--something quite close to home--just
> look at his website! I think if people can't follow the hard bits
> they should be a bit tolerant, and/or just not read them and wait for
> a bit they like to come by--as opposed to trying to shut people down.
> Best
> Yorick
>
>
> On 14 Sep 2007, at 14:09, Antoinette Renouf wrote:
>
>> Dear List members,
>> Corpora-list was set up by ICAME (International Computer Archive of
>> Modern and Mediaeval English) to impart information and discuss
>> matters
>> of relevance to the field. We have been receiving complaints that
>> Corpora-list has recently been dominated by 3 or 4 people talking
>> about
>> topics having little to do with corpus linguistics. Far be it from
>> me to
>> spoil the fun or stifle debate, but we are all anyway swamped with
>> information beyond our capacity to process, so please do restrict your
>> comments to issues of more central relevance to the particular list
>> community, and/or consider whether private emails might be a more
>> appropriate mechanism for continuing debate once you have found a
>> conversation partner.
>> All good wishes
>> Antoinette Renouf
>> Chair of ICAME
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Antoinette Renouf
>> Professor of English Language and Linguistics
>> School of English
>> University of Central England in Birmingham
>>
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Khurshid Ahmad

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