[Corpora-List] Workshop Announcement (2nd call) Lexical Priming - how corpus linguistics can assist in the understanding of texts

Wed May 8 12:24:07 UTC 2013

Dear CorporaList - can you please circulate the following:

Lexical Priming - how corpus linguistics can assist in the understanding of texts

12th of June 2013. ). 9.00 am prompt until 12.00 noon.

Dr Michael Pace-Sigge, University of East Finland

Katie Patterson, University of Liverpool

This workshop will very briefly look at a number of language issues that have been brought to light through corpus-led investigations (Sinclair, Louw, Stubbs, Hoey).

          The major aim of the workshop is to introduce the Theory of Lexical Priming (LPT), and to discuss in how far the theory can be explored through corpus studies. This theory explores the relationships between lexical items and grammatical patterns and argues for a psychological association of such patterns that prime the reader/listener into understanding them.

          The workshop will also provide a framework  for employing  LPT within Stylistics, focussing on 19th century British Literature (Dickens and Hardy). It will be discussed in how far LPT allows for a social and cognitive based analysis of metaphorical language, focusing on frequency of real-world usage and reader/listener expectations when in contact with particular types of metaphors.  

              Finally, the session will provide a   ‘hands-on’ laboratory, using the corpus software WordSmith 5 (Scott, 2010): Starting with creating Wordlists, participants will look into a number of concordances and will be asked to  create keyword lists and key clusters lists in order to investigate in how far their results can be seen to  support the  Lexical Priming Theory.”

This hands-on workshop is as part of the  ‘SALC IV 2013’ Conference

(Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition)

University of Eastern Finland - June 12-14th

To enrol, follow this link: https://elomake.uef.fi/lomakkeet/6027/lomake.html

Workshop participation only requires no payment.

For any further information see https://www.uef.fi/salc2013

or email: michael.pace-sigge at uef.fi

Dr. Michael Pace-Sigge
Senior Lecturer,
Room 155 Agora
Tel.+ 358 (0) 294452154

School of Humanities
University of Eastern Finland
P.O. Box 111
FI-80101 Joensuu
Finland
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