Gender and Corpus Linguistics
Tuesday March 30th 2010
Lancaster University
Corpus linguistics involves the use of large collections of naturally occurring texts, encoded in electronic form so that they can be analysed with the help of computer software to extract linguistic patterns. In recent years, this approach has begun to be utilised by linguists who are interested in analysing issues relating to gender. This BAAL event aims to bring together researchers working in the field, as well as showcasing recent corpus-based gender research, and enabling debate on best practice.
Invited speakers include Bandar Al-Hejin (Lancaster), Cinzia Bevitori (Bologna), Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Brona Murphy (Edinburgh), Louise Mullany (Nottingham), Michael Pearce (Sunderland), Costas Gabrielatos (Lancaster) and Eivind Torgersen (Lancaster).
For a list of abstracts click here
The event will be divided into corpus studies of usage/variation and corpus studies of discourse/representation. The former could be characterised by the question 'are there differences/similarities between male and female language use?', while the latter focuses on differences in the ways that males and females are represented via language.
Anyone with an interest in gender and corpus linguistics is welcome.
Registration deadline is 28 February 2010. Registration is GBP20 (via our online store).
If you require more information, please contact Paul Baker p.baker@lancaster.ac.uk
(Attendees may also be interested in a workshop at Lancaster University the following day (March 31st) on Using Corpora in the Classroom, as part of the Northwest Network for English and Linguistics Pedagogy. For more information contact Kevin Watson k.d.watson@lancaster.ac.uk).
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/galsig/events.htm
Tuesday March 30th 2010
Lancaster University
Corpus linguistics involves the use of large collections of naturally occurring texts, encoded in electronic form so that they can be analysed with the help of computer software to extract linguistic patterns. In recent years, this approach has begun to be utilised by linguists who are interested in analysing issues relating to gender. This BAAL event aims to bring together researchers working in the field, as well as showcasing recent corpus-based gender research, and enabling debate on best practice.
Invited speakers include Bandar Al-Hejin (Lancaster), Cinzia Bevitori (Bologna), Tony McEnery (Lancaster), Brona Murphy (Edinburgh), Louise Mullany (Nottingham), Michael Pearce (Sunderland), Costas Gabrielatos (Lancaster) and Eivind Torgersen (Lancaster).
For a list of abstracts click here
The event will be divided into corpus studies of usage/variation and corpus studies of discourse/representation. The former could be characterised by the question 'are there differences/similarities between male and female language use?', while the latter focuses on differences in the ways that males and females are represented via language.
Anyone with an interest in gender and corpus linguistics is welcome.
Registration deadline is 28 February 2010. Registration is GBP20 (via our online store).
If you require more information, please contact Paul Baker p.baker@lancaster.ac.uk
(Attendees may also be interested in a workshop at Lancaster University the following day (March 31st) on Using Corpora in the Classroom, as part of the Northwest Network for English and Linguistics Pedagogy. For more information contact Kevin Watson k.d.watson@lancaster.ac.uk).
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/galsig/events.htm
