[Corpora-List] ASTON CORPUS EVENTS 2009: First announcement and call for papers

[Elizabeth Tanguay]

ASTON CORPUS EVENTS 2009
Sponsored by ISLS - Institute for the Study of Language and Society School
of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University, Birmingham, UK

•Aston Corpus Conference for Postgraduate Researchers:
  Thursday 21   May 2009
•Aston Corpus Symposium: Friday 22 May 2009
•Aston Corpus Summer School: Mon 27 July – Friday 31 July 2009

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ASTON CORPUS CONFERENCE FOR POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS: THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The objective of the Corpus Conference for Postgraduate Researchers,
organized by the ACORN project team of the School of Languages and Social
Sciences at Aston University, is to enable postgraduates to present their
corpus-related research in a friendly environment. As with last year, we
are combining the conference with the Aston Corpus Symposium, which will
take place on the following day. Postgraduates will thus have the
opportunity to hear experts talk about their past and current projects.

Abstracts written in English of max 300 words (with bibliographical
references) for a 20 minute paper should be sent by 1 February 2009 to
tanguaye at aston.ac.uk . The preferred file formats are .doc and .pdf.
Author's name, affiliation, and contact details should be provided in a
separate attachment.

Presenters will also be invited to submit a 3,000-word conference paper to
be published in the online conference proceedings.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 1 March 2009.

Presentations can focus on any corpus-related topic.

http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/postgraduate_conference.html

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ASTON CORPUS SYMPOSIUM: FRIDAY 22 MAY 2009
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
After two very successful events in 2007 and 2008, Aston Corpus Symposium
returns for its third year in 2009. The Symposium aims to bring together
experts in various corpus-related fields. The programme will consist of
presentations by distinguished speakers in the field.

Confirmed Speakers:
•  Nick Groom (University of Birmingham)
•  Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography MasterClass)
•  Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston University, Birmingham)
•  David Oakey (University of Birmingham)
•  Ute Römer (University of Michigan)
•  Mike Scott (University of Liverpool)

http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/symposium.html


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NEW!!
ASTON CORPUS SUMMER SCHOOL: MONDAY 27 JULY – FRI 31 JULY 2009

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
We will be holding the first Aston Corpus Summer School Linguistics from
27 – 31 July 2009. The summer school will involve a number of lectures and
hands-on sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to work with
leading researchers, such as Eric Atwell (Leeds), Ramesh Krishnamurthy
(Aston), Michaela Mahlberg (Liverpool), Paul Rayson (Lancaster), Michael
Rundell (Lexicography MasterClass), Mike Scott (Liverpool), Anne Wichmann
(Central Lancashire), as well as to meet other students.


The programme has not yet been finalised, but here are some of the topics
that will probably be covered during the week.

•	Introduction to corpora
•	Stylistics
•	Using Wordsmith Tools
•	Spoken corpora
•	Learner corpora
•	Lexicography
•	Corpora in second language teaching/learning

http://corpus.aston.ac.uk/SummerSchool.html

Apologies for any cross-postings

Kind regards
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Elizabeth Tanguay
PhD student in Corpus Linguistics
School of Languages and Social Sciences (LSS)
Aston University
Birmingham, B4 7ET



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