[Corpora] [Corpora-List] Workshop Announcement: Developing Corpus Linguistics in South, Asia, 9-11 February 2015, Islamabad

[Paul Thompson]

Announcement: 3 day workshop "Developing Corpus Linguistics in South 
Asia", 9-11 February 2015
Venue: International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Funded by: British Council Researcher Links Workshop Programme
Organisers: Dr Ayaz Afsar (IIUI, Pakistan), Dr Paul Thompson (University 
of Birmingham, UK)
Bursaries: see below

The purpose of this three day workshop is to bring together corpus 
researchers in South Asia and the UK in order to assess the current 
state of corpus linguistics in Asia, to identify the needs of corpus 
researchers in Pakistan and also to articulate a clear strategy for the 
development of resources and programmes for the study of national and 
regional varieties of English in the future.

The need for the program is rooted in the increasing demand for 
professionals and researchers in the field of corpus linguistics, which 
is at present a neglected area in Pakistan and other countries in South 
Asia. Corpus methodologies are growing increasingly important not only 
for the investigation of linguistic matters but also for an 
understanding of social, cultural, economic and political issues in 
which language plays a central role. Furthermore, there still exist no 
national corpus of Pakistani English nor one that represents the wide 
diversity of South Asian Englishes, and neither are there substantial 
corpora of regional languages such as Urdu. The current demand results 
from the increasing need for the use of corpus tools in an age of 
information technology with a substantial amount of digital data. The 
workshop will address these issues in the use of corpus linguistic tools 
and methods, and their application in diverse areas of social sciences, 
humanities and arts, such as critical discourse analysis, data mining 
and applied linguistics.

The workshop will consist of: a set of training sessions; panel 
discussions; and talks and poster presentations by participants.

Bursaries are available for early career researchers from the UK and 
Pakistan to attend this workshop. Applicants should send a brief CV 
(max. one page), a letter of support from a supervisor or head of 
department, a 300 word statement outlining your interest in the workshop 
and (separately) a 300 word abstract for a poster or short paper 
presentation. UK applicants should contact Paul Thompson 
(p.thompson at bham.ac.uk) with an initial expression of interest, and also 
should note that the bursary covers travel, visa and related expenses to 
a maximum of GBP1000 per participant; Pakistan-based applicants should 
contact Dr Ayaz Afsar (ayaz.afsar at iiu.edu.pk).

Researchers who are not 'early career' are also welcome to attend - for 
further information, please contact Paul Thompson.

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Dr Paul Thompson
Director, Centre for Corpus Research
Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics
University of Birmingham
52 Pritchatts Road
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Phone: +44 121 4145688

Co-Editor, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
URL: www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
Personal: www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx
To arrange a meeting: www.meetme.so/paulthompson
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