Hilary Nesi was the opening plenary speaker at the 6th Learner Corpus Research Conference, held at the Università degli Studi di Padova, 22nd-24th September 2022, in conjunction with the international Learner Corpus Association (see http://www.maldura.unipd.it/lcr-2022/). The conference attracted participants from all over the world, with talks concerning topics such as …
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 …
The aim of this one-day event was to discuss the role corpora play in EAP teaching (morning session), and to plug the current gap in documentation relating to core corpus skills for academic purposes (afternoon session). Abstracts, slides and videos for the morning talks can be downloaded below. Schedule – …
Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing A corpus-pragmatic and contrastive approach to identifying and analysing direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish Niall Curry, CAW / CAMC Weds 7 October 2020 (see below for recording) Corpus research on questions as reader engagement markers in academic writing …
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 …
Transcribear – Introducing An Online Automated Transcription & Annotation Tool Yuhua Chen 12 Feb 2020 16:00-17:00, GE403 Reliable transcription and annotation (also known as “coding”) is essential for research in many areas of Humanities and Social Sciences, where data is often collected through interviews, focus groups, meeting or classroom observations, …
Abstract: The British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus is a collection of almost three thousand successful university student assignments from four universities in England. This paper outlines its composition, and explains how 13 genrefamilies were identified in the corpus, informed by ‘top-down’evidence from the local and national contexts, and a …
