The Corpus Connections symposium organised by Sheena Gardner took place on Wed. 13th July, with a particular focus on corpus markup and analysis. The symposium included presentations by PGRs Cipto Wardoyo and David Beauchamp, by CAMC colleagues Hilary Nesi and Benet Vincent, and by Visiting Scholar from the Spanish Applied …
James just had the corrections to his thesis ‘Writing at the crossroads: A linguistic analysis of academic business report writing at a modern UK university’ accepted by the University of Birmingham. James’ research focused on the ‘case study report’ genre of student writing and compared report texts produced in a …
Welcome, and congratulations, to David Beauchamp who was awarded the Coventry University Communicating COVID studentship to build a corpus of COVID related communications and examine the messages from the Downing Street briefings. He is supervised by Sheena Gardner and Benet Vincent through CAMC. David joins us from Cambridge Assessment where …
Congratulations are due to Christopher Turner, corrections to whose thesis ‘Towards a New Pedagogical Approach to Some and Any Based on Large-Scale Corpus Analysis’ were accepted this week. This work took an in-depth look at some and any,contrasting their usage in a L1 English corpus (the Oxford English Corpus) before …
Imane, who has recently completed her PhD, will be giving the following talk as part of the Coventry University School of Humanities Research Talks Series on Weds 11 March 16:00-17:00 in the George Eliot building GE403: Rethinking Marginal Otherness: An Integrated Approach to Disability as a Social Construct in Faulkner’s …
Congratulations are due to Priya Mathew and Fares Rezoug, who both recently had their PhD corrections accepted and who will graduate in July. Priya’s thesis is entitled ‘An investigation of student writing in Civil Engineering: A corpus linguistics case study in the Middle East’. Priya is a Senior Lecturer in …
