[Corpora-List] CADS International Conference, 13-14 September 2012

[Gabrielatos, Costas]

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

CADS International Conference
Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies:More than the sum of Discourse Analysis and computing?

University of Bologna,13-14 September 2012
Conference website: http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/blog/clb/?p=287 


 Featured speakers include: Michael Hoey (Liverpool), Paul Baker (Lancaster), Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston), Costas Gabrielatos (Lancaster), Alan Partington (Bologna)


The term corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) was coined ten years 
ago. Although such research dates back at least to Biber (1988) and 
Stubbs (1996), it was in those days still possible to lament: In 
comparison with the impressive strides corpus linguistics has made in 
the fields of lexicography, grammatical description, register studies 
etc, it has had relatively little to say in describing features of 
discourse, particularly of interaction, that is, the rhetorical aspects 
of texts. 
This is clearly no longer the case. In these ten years CADS has come of 
age with major projects under its belt on, among others, the reporting 
of immigration, reporting the Iraq conflict, White House press relations and perceptions of the EU. Language topics studied include evaluation, 
discourse organisation, facework/politeness, metaphor, irony, 
stylistics, diachronic linguistics, and many more. 
But new questions have arisen. Is CADS a coherent discipline? What are 
its methods? What are the overall objectives of CADS research(ers)? Has 
its focus altered over the years and is it likely to alter in the 
future? And, of course: is it more than just the sum of discourse 
analysis and computing? If so, what is its added value? 
We invite speakers to share their own experiences of using corpus 
techniques to shed light on discourse and to debate these fundamental 
questions
Talks will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
Abstracts
Please send abstracts to: catharina.solano2 at unibo.it
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (including references) and should specify five keywords.
The number of conference places is limited to 40.
Please supply abstract by e-mail without name with a separate document 
with name and affiliation. Address e-mail subject as “CADS conference”.
Abstracts will be sent for anonymous refereeing.

Scientific committee
Alan Partington (Bologna)
Anna Marchi (Lancaster)
Costas Gabrielatos (Lancaster)
Jane Johnson (Bologna)
Charlotte Taylor (Portsmouth)
Alison Duguid (Siena)
John Morley (Siena)
Federica Ferrari (Bologna)

Important dates
Deadline for abstract submission: May 7th 2012.
Notification of acceptance / non acceptance: May 20th 2012.
Registration begins & programme published: May 22nd 2012.
For further information please contact Anna Marchi (anna.marchi at unibo.it) 

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