[Corpora-List] Fourth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative langauge

[Alan Wallington]

Since the inception of the biennial Corpus Linguistics Conferences in 
2001, we have held an accompanying workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches 
to Figurative Language and we would like to hold a similar 
workshop/colloquium to accompany the 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference 
being held in Liverpool, UK, on the 20th-23rd July. 
http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/index.htm. Our workshop/colloquium 
would take place on Monday the 20th.

(See  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/CorpusLinguistics05.html for details 
of the third workshop and 
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/CorpusLinguisticsWorkshopProgramme.html 
for links to the papers).

Unfortunately,  we were unable to hold an accompanying workshop last 
time in 2007 and so our last workshop was in 2005. Given this hiatus, we 
would like to check before proceeding that there is still interest in a 
workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language. 
Consequently, we are asking people who might be interested in submitting 
a paper to contact us by Wednesday the 21st of January. Such an 
expression in no way commits you to actually making a submission. If the 
numbers are reasonable, we will hold another workshop.

As in previous years we intend to have a mixture of long papers (30 mins 
+ 10 mins discussion) and short papers/poster. There will be a general 
theme for the workshop and preference will be given to papers exploring 
the theme, but we will also accept good papers examining any aspect of 
figurative language from a corpus-based perspective.

This year the theme will be variation and variability in metaphor. This 
is a broad topic which could, for example, encompass papers looking at 
variation in particular types of metaphor, such as temporal metaphors, 
across different genres; degrees of entrenchment or conventionality in 
metaphor, again possibly across different genres/registers, and how to 
use a corpus to get at this information; the nature of mixed metaphors; 
and other possibilities.

If there is sufficient interest, further details will be published next 
month.

Please send expressions of interest to

A.M.Wallington at cs.bham.ac.uk

An approximate title would be very welcome, but not required, and we 
emphasise again that expressing interest entails no commitment to 
submitting a paper or poster. Also, if you are interested in attending 
the workshop, but probably will not submit a paper or poster, could you 
also let us know.

DEADLINE FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

21 JANUARY


Regards,

Alan Wallington

School of Computer Science,
University of Birmingham


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