[Corpora-List] Call for papers CADS conference 13-14 September 2012

[Anna Marchi]

*CALL FOR PAPERS *

*Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies: **More than the sum of Discourse
Analysis and computing?*
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 **University of Bologna, Palazzo Hercolani, Strada Maggiore 45
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 September 13-14 2012
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Conference website:
*http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/blog/clb/?p=287
<http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/blog/clb/?p=287>

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  *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.
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*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)
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*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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