CLaC members Sheena Gardner and Benet Vincent are happy to share that they have been invited to talk at the Air University Islamabad international conference ‘Unity in Diversity for National Cohesion‘ on Tuesday 30 April. They will be talking on the topic of ‘Coercion or persuasion: A corpus analysis of …
CLaC was delighted to welcome Mathias Russnes on 10 April to talk about his PhD research into ‘Semantic prosody, register and polysemy’. This was a very thought-provoking talk open to staff and students of the School of Humanities and associated research centres, the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities and …
This talk, given by Benet Vincent and Sheena Gardner, was based on a paper (written with David Beauchamp) which they recently submitted to the volume Applying Systemic Functional Linguistics to Meet the Challenge of Change, edited by Vinh To, Eric Cheung and Jonathan Webster. In the talk, Benet and Sheena …
Chao Han and Sheena Gardner have recently had their third article based on transition markers in the Han CH-EN corpus accepted for publication in JEAP. The Han CH-EN corpus is a subset of the BAWE corpus in which each text by a Chinese speaking Chinese educated student is closely matched …
Professor Wasima Shehzad from the Corpus Research Centre at AIR university in Islamabad recently visited Coventry University as part of the PAK Mobility project. CLaC has longstanding links with this Corpus Centre, with members of CLaC having visited, examined and being on advisory boards there. Wasima (on the right) is …
CLaC is excited to issue a reminder about this call for abstracts for a Special Issue of the Journal of Methods in Applied Linguistics, guest edited by Aysel Şahin Kızıl (İzmir Bakırçay University – recently a visiting scholar with CLaC), Lee McCallum, and Benet Vincent. We are hoping to publish our …
CLaC was delighted to host two well-attended talks on Wednesday 5 April. In the first of these, Benet Vincent talked about recurrent issues in N-gram / Lexical Bundle research, chief amongst them the confusion of method (lexical bundle analysis) with the phenomenon being investigated (phraseology, formulas). Benet aims to develop …
CLaC is delighted to welcome Dr Hülya Mısır for a two-week research training visit on corpora funded by an Erasmus grant from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Türkiye. Hülya recently gained her doctorate from METU. She has also worked at Cappadocia University, Florida International University and Ufuk University. …
CLaC is delighted to welcome Aysel Şahin Kızıl from İzmir Bakırçay University, Turkey as a visiting researcher. Aysel is an experienced educator and researcher with research interests in two main areas, computer assisted language learning and the use of corpus linguistics in language teaching & learning. In the area of …
CLaC is excited to announce that member Benet Vincent has a new chapter out (co-written with Jim Clarke) – ‘The Colours of the Real World Only Seem Really Real When You Viddy Them on the Screen’: The Adaptation of Nadsat in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in the collection Anthony …
