[Corpora-List] UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics (Lancaster): Call for Participation

[Hardie, Andrew]

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   UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics: 
             Call for Participation
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The UCREL research centre (Departments of Linguistics 
& English Language and of Computing, Lancaster 
University) is pleased to announce its first Summer 
School in Corpus Linguistics. This will take place on
Wednesday 13th, Thursday 14th, and Friday 15th July 
2011 (half-days Wednesday and Friday, full-day 
Thursday).

      http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool

The event is free to attend, but registration *in 
advance* is compulsory, as places are limited. We are
now inviting applications from anyone interested in 
participating.

The UCREL Summer School is intended primarily for 
postgraduate research students (and secondarily for 
Masters-level students and postdoctoral researchers) 
who require in-depth knowledge of corpus-based 
methodologies for their degree projects. It is not 
aimed at raw beginners, but rather at PhD students who
have at least some introductory experience of analysis 
using language corpora, and who wish to expand their 
knowledge of key issues and techniques in cutting-edge
corpus research.

The programme consists of a series of intensive 
two-hour sessions, some involving practical work, 
others more discussion-oriented. Sessions and tutors
are as follows:

* Paul Baker         Corpus-based discourse analysis
* Jonathan Culpeper  Pragmatics in (historical) 
                     corpus data
* Costas Gabrielatos Corpora and sociolinguistics: 
                     studying linguistic innovators
* Andrew Hardie      Designing and documenting a 
                     corpus
* Geoffrey Leech     Comparable corpora and recent 
                     changes in English grammar
* Tony McEnery       Ethical issues in corpus-based 
                     research
* Paul Rayson        Collocation across semantic 
                     categories in Wmatrix
* Andrew Wilson      Corpus statistics - more than just
                     the basics

A provisional programme is available via the event 
website.


How to register
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All PhD students who feel they would benefit from 
attending the UCREL Summer School are invited to apply
for a place. UK and overseas students are equally 
eligible.

Postdoctoral researchers and Masters-degree-level 
students are also welcome to apply, but in the event 
of excess demand, priority will be given to PhD 
students. Otherwise, places will be allocated on a 
first-come, first-served basis.

As noted above, there is no fee for attending; 
however participants will be responsible for arranging
their own travel, accommodation, and food (lunch will
be provided on the full day of Thursday 14th July). 
Some links to possibly useful information on travel 
and accommodation are given on the Summer School's
website.

To apply for a place in the Summer School, you should 
fill in the registration form, which can be found at

  http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/summerschool

in RTF format for completion on computer as well as
PDF format for printing out. Once you have completed 
the form, return it to Andrew Hardie by email 
(preferably; to a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk) or by post
(if necessary) at the following address:

  Department of Linguistics & English Language, 
  Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, 
  United Kingdom.

In addition to sending in the form, we also require 
your supervisor to write to us briefly, confirming 
that they support your application and that they 
expect your PhD research to benefit from attending the
UCREL Summer School. This letter in support should 
also be directed to Andrew Hardie, again preferably by 
email. (If you are a postdoctoral researcher, please 
ask your Principal Investigator or other research team
leader to write in support of your application.)

Your application is not complete until we have 
received *both* your form *and* the letter from your 
supervisor.

The deadline for registrations is the 31st March 2011.

Any queries about the UCREL Summer School can also be 
sent to Andrew Hardie who is the main contact person 
for the event.


A scheduling note
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The UCREL Summer School has been scheduled directly 
after Lancaster Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
and Language Teaching (Tuesday 12th July 2011), for 
the convenience of students who may wish to attend 
both events. 

However, there is no expectation that people 
attending the Summer School will *necessarily* also 
attend the conference. 

See also
  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/laelpgconference


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(Please circulate to any colleagues or students you 
think may be interested; apologies for cross-posting.)
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Lancaster University, UK
UCREL: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk
Linguistics & English Language: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk
Computing: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk



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