[Corpora-List] 2nd CfP: Genre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual Corpora

[Marie-Aude Lefer]

Call for papersGenre- and Register-related Text and Discourse Features in Multilingual
CorporaOrganizers: The
Linguistic Society of Belgium and Institut Libre Marie Haps -
Brussels11-12 January 2013www.mariehaps.be/lsb2013The conference aims at bringing together researchers working on the
compilation and annotation of genre- and register-controlled multilingual corpora as well as specialists in
corpus-based contrastive linguistics and translation studies investigating genre- and register-related text
and discourse features from a multilingual perspective. Proposals dealing with the benefits of corpus-based
studies for translator training are also welcome, especially those that examine discourse features across
languages. Conference themesThe conference will mainly explore four areas. The conference themes include, but are not
restricted to, the following: - Lexical variation across genres and
registers:  how do lexemes and multi-word units contribute to the
(automatic) identification of genres and registers across languages? To what extent is
genre-/register-specific lexis similar in non-translated and translated language? - Text- and discourse-structuring features: Bottom-up approaches: What types of information packaging (topic-focus structure) are relevant to
genre and register identification? What lexico-syntactic features should be taken into account in text
segmentation across genres and registers and across languages (e.g. anaphoric chains, sequence-framing
adverbials)? What are the main challenges of multilingual multidimensional analysis (Biber
1995)?Top-down
approaches: What rhetorical moves (Swales 1990, 2002; Biber et al.
2007) are specific to what genres and registers? What moves are language-specific within the same genre and
register? What linguistic features are move-specific across languages? - Pragmatic features with and without discourse markers: e.g. epistemic modality and subjectivity,
evidentiality, attitude (value judgments, attenuation, etc.), argumentative value of
statements.- New corpus compilation and annotation projects: issues in the
compilation and linguistic (mainly pragmatic) annotation of multilingual genre- and/or register-controlled
corpora of written texts and/or audiovisual translation corpora. There will be two categories of presentation: - Full paper (25 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) - Poster For a more detailed version of the call for papers, see the conference website
www.mariehaps.be/lsb2013Keynote
speakersWe are pleased to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitation to give a
keynote presentation at the conference:Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University, USA)María de los Ángeles Gómez González (University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain)Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de
Louvain, Belgium)Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)Language of the conference: EnglishAbstractsYour abstract should be between 800 and 1,000 words (+ list
of references). Abstracts should be sent by email to lsb.conference at ilmh.be, before 1 June 2012. Please
mention your name and affiliation in the body of your email and name the attachment as follows:
abstract_yourfirstname_YOURLASTNAME.docAbstracts will be reviewed
anonymously by the scientific committee. You will be notified of the outcome of the review process by 30
June 2012.Organizing
committeeMarie-Aude Lefer (chair, Institut libre Marie
Haps)Svetlana Vogeleer (chair, Institut libre Marie
Haps)Lieven Buysse (HUB University College
Brussels)Sylvie De Cock (Facultés Universitaires
Saint-Louis)Gert De Sutter (University College
Ghent)Patrick Dendale (University of
Antwerp)Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de
Louvain)Christine Michaux (University of Mons)Scientific committeeKarin Aijmer (Göteborg University)Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna at Forlì)Lieven Buysse (HUB University College Brussels)Bruno Cartoni (University of Geneva)Jean-Pierre Colson (Institut libre Marie Haps)Sylvie De Cock (Université catholique de Louvain & Facultés
Universitaires Saint-Louis)Gert
De Sutter (University College Ghent)Bart Defrancq (University College
Ghent)Ilse Depraetere (University of
Lille 3)Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain)Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski (University of Lodz)Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo)Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University)Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ldt)Sara Laviosa (University of Bari)Raphael Salkie (University of Brighton)John Swales (University of Michigan)Richard Xiao (Edge Hill University)Sponsoring
optionsFor sponsoring options, please contact lsb.conference at ilmh.beContact and informationlsb.conference at ilmh.be

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