[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - UCCTS4 (4th Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference, Lancaster University, UK; 24th to 26th July 2014)

[Hardie, Andrew]

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4th Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies Conference:
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uccts4

We are pleased to announce the fourth international *Using Corpora in 
Contrastive and Translation Studies* conference (UCCTS4) to be held
at Lancaster University, UK, from Thursday 24th July 2014 to Saturday 
26th July 2014

This is our first CALL FOR PARTICIPATION. 

Registration is now open via the following link:

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uccts4/register.php

Discounted EARLY BIRD RATES are now available, until April 14th:

 - GBP 230 (normal rate)
 - GBP 155 (reduced student rate)
 
On-campus accommodation can be booked when you register; see the 
website for full details. For any queries related to registration, 
email: uccts2014 at lancaster.ac.uk

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About the conference
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UCCTS is a biennial international conference which was launched in 
2008 to provide an international forum for the exploration of the 
theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the creation and 
use of corpora in contrastive and translation studies. The 
conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre, which brings 
together the Department of Linguistics and English Language with 
the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University.

Topics include:

 Using corpora in translation studies and teaching
 Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with 
 translation studies
 Using corpora in comparing and contrasting languages or language 
 varieties
 Register and genre variation in translation studies 
 Corpus-based research of interface between contrastive and 
 translation studies
 Design and development of comparable and parallel corpora
 Processing of multilingual corpora
 Bilingual or contrastive terminology, lexicology and lexicography

We are happy to announce that the following speakers have accepted 
our invitation to give plenary lectures at UCCTS4:

  * Silvia Bernardini (Bologna University, Italy)
  * Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway)
  * Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University, Ireland)
  * Béatrice Lamiroy (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
  * Stella Neumann (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

A **draft** programme for the conference is now available online:

  http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/uccts4/programme.php

Please note that all details in the draft programme are subject to 
change.

Key Dates:

  * 15th April 2014 - early bird registration closes
  * 30th June 2014 - final deadline for registration & final deadline 
    for cancellation with refund of registration fees
  * 24th-26th July 2014 - conference 

Organising committee:

  * Richard Xiao (chair)
  * Andrew Hardie (acting chair)
  * Tony McEnery
  * Paul Rayson
  
Programme committee:

  * Michael Barlow (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
  * Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna, Italy)
  * Bart Defrancq (Ghent University, Belgium)
  * Federico Gaspari (University of Bologna, Italy)
  * Volker Gast (University of Jena, Germany)
  * Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK)
  * Sara Laviosa (University of Bara, )
  * Defeng Li (SOAS, University of London, UK)
  * Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK)
  * Paul Rayson (Lancaster Univresity, UK)
  * Daniel Van Olmen (Lancaster University, UK)
  * Kefei Wang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
  * Richard Xiao (Lancaster University, UK)



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