Our recent PhD graduate, Yan Yan Yeung, is giving a talk about her fascinating PhD work as part of the Warwick University Applied Linguistics series Language. Culture. Matters today Weds 8 May. Details below… Place: Online MS Teams: Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 339 024 274 131 Passcode: tK5zsv Room S0.08, Social Sciences Building
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 …
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 …
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 …
