The International Conference of Corpus Linguistics 2005 was held jointly by Birmingham and Lancaster Universities at Birmingham during 14-17 July. Over 220 people attended the conference. The conference proceedings will be published online at:
www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC
which is not available at the moment but will be announced shortly.
There were four keynote speakers at the conference. Alison Wray from Cardiff talked about corpus research from a psychological perspective; Mike Scott from Liverpool demonstrated the power of keyword analysis; Anna Mauranen from Helsinki introduced her research in ELF (English as a linga franca); and finally Tony McEnery from Lancaster talked about text reuse, keyword analysis and MDA in news studies.
In a parallel session, I presented a contrastive study of passive constructions in English and Chinese, the PPT slides of which are now available at the following link:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/xiaoz/papers/cl2005.ppt
There is also a speaker from China, ZhANG Yang from the University of electronic Science and Technology of China. He compiled a corpus using new the national syllabus and a new set of college English coursebooks.
Interestingly, while Professor Hongyin Tao was absent from the conference, I was happy to see that Alison cited in her plenary speech his work (in collaboration with Charles Meyer) in preparation: Genre-based distribution of gapping in ICE-GB.
www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/PCLC
which is not available at the moment but will be announced shortly.
There were four keynote speakers at the conference. Alison Wray from Cardiff talked about corpus research from a psychological perspective; Mike Scott from Liverpool demonstrated the power of keyword analysis; Anna Mauranen from Helsinki introduced her research in ELF (English as a linga franca); and finally Tony McEnery from Lancaster talked about text reuse, keyword analysis and MDA in news studies.
In a parallel session, I presented a contrastive study of passive constructions in English and Chinese, the PPT slides of which are now available at the following link:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/xiaoz/papers/cl2005.ppt
There is also a speaker from China, ZhANG Yang from the University of electronic Science and Technology of China. He compiled a corpus using new the national syllabus and a new set of college English coursebooks.
Interestingly, while Professor Hongyin Tao was absent from the conference, I was happy to see that Alison cited in her plenary speech his work (in collaboration with Charles Meyer) in preparation: Genre-based distribution of gapping in ICE-GB.
