Announcement of the second call for papers for a seminar on "Corpora in
Discourse Analysis and in Language Teaching"
Seminar to be held at the ESSE 9 conference in Aarhus, Denmark, 22-26 August 2008 (European Society for the Study of English, http://www.esse2008.dk/)
About the seminar:
The seminar explores the nexus of three areas related to linguistics:
corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and ELT/ESP. It approaches the corpus as a resource rather than as a goal, focusing on the various ways corpus-based methods are employed in discourse analysis and in teaching/learning. This involves asking what types of structures and levels of language can be explored using corpora; what corpora can tell us about interaction; what the roles and mutual relationships of general and specialized corpora are; what corpus tools and interfaces are needed; as well as what dangers we face when working with corpora.
Seminar convenors:
Dr. Markéta Malá (Charles University), e-mail: Marketa.Mala@ff.cuni.cz
Dr. Paul Thompson (University of Reading), e-mail:
p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk
Call for proposals:
Those wishing to present a paper at this seminar are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to /both/ convenors of the seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008.
Please note that authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not more than 15 minutes' duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud. Convenors should ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and convenors should plan so that there is time for discussion between speakers and with the audience.
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Dr Paul Thompson
School Director of Postgraduate Studies
Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and European Studies
HumSS Building
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA, UK
Phone: +44 118 3786472
URL: www.reading.ac.uk/app_ling
Hon. Secretary of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
URL: www.baal.org.uk
Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG
URL: corpus-sig-baal.org.uk/
Editorial Board member, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
URL: www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
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Discourse Analysis and in Language Teaching"
Seminar to be held at the ESSE 9 conference in Aarhus, Denmark, 22-26 August 2008 (European Society for the Study of English, http://www.esse2008.dk/)
About the seminar:
The seminar explores the nexus of three areas related to linguistics:
corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and ELT/ESP. It approaches the corpus as a resource rather than as a goal, focusing on the various ways corpus-based methods are employed in discourse analysis and in teaching/learning. This involves asking what types of structures and levels of language can be explored using corpora; what corpora can tell us about interaction; what the roles and mutual relationships of general and specialized corpora are; what corpus tools and interfaces are needed; as well as what dangers we face when working with corpora.
Seminar convenors:
Dr. Markéta Malá (Charles University), e-mail: Marketa.Mala@ff.cuni.cz
Dr. Paul Thompson (University of Reading), e-mail:
p.a.thompson@reading.ac.uk
Call for proposals:
Those wishing to present a paper at this seminar are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to /both/ convenors of the seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008.
Please note that authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not more than 15 minutes' duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud. Convenors should ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and convenors should plan so that there is time for discussion between speakers and with the audience.
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Dr Paul Thompson
School Director of Postgraduate Studies
Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and European Studies
HumSS Building
University of Reading
Reading RG6 6AA, UK
Phone: +44 118 3786472
URL: www.reading.ac.uk/app_ling
Hon. Secretary of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
URL: www.baal.org.uk
Convenor, BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG
URL: corpus-sig-baal.org.uk/
Editorial Board member, Journal of English for Academic Purposes
URL: www.elsevier.com/locate/jeap
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