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1Register now! 4th Corpus Linguistics in the South 04/03/2017 Birkbeck Uni

 

The 14th meeting of Corpus Linguistics in the South will be held on Saturday March 4, 2017 at Birkbeck, University of London.

To register for this event, please send an email to Rachelle Vessey (r.vessey@bbk.ac.uk) and include the following details:
Name
Affiliation
Email address

Please also indicate if you would like to join in the group lunch, which will be at Byron (https://www.byronhamburgers.com/store-street/).

There are limited spaces available for this event and also limited availability for lunch. Registration and reservations for lunch will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.

 

Practical information

In the tradition of all Corpus Linguistics in the South events, there will be no charge for participation or attendance. Coffee and refreshments will be provided and participants will be welcome to attend an optional lunch (cost approximately £15). Please note we do not have any funds from which to assist with transport or accommodation. Birkbeck, University of London is located in the heart of Bloomsbury and is easily accessible by public transportation. More details on our central London campus can be found here.

This event is being organised by Rachelle Vessey.

This is the most dangerous time for our planet by Stephen Hawking

 

Stephen Hawking on our world today, from economy to Brexit, from Trump to inequality.

Fascinating read on The Guardian and on https://www.unlimited.world

[…] we need to break down, not build up, barriers within and between nations. If we are to stand a chance of doing that, the world’s leaders need to acknowledge that they have failed and are failing the many. With resources increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, we are going to have to learn to share far more than at present.

We can do this, I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year. To learn above all a measure of humility.

Corpus linguistics in the south 13: presentations #cls13

 

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Corpus Linguistics on the South 13

The Hillary Clinton emails: corpus linguistics meets the real world

Rachele de Felice, University College London

Link

AntFileConverter: Pdf to plain text

Redactions. Materially annoying, so much is deleted that POS tagging becomes problematic.

Lots of repeated materials because of e-mail chains.

What about names and entities? H, HC, Hillary, MS is the same referent.

Which device was used? iPad, desktop, phone?

What about times?

Unique Ids for everything (G. Garretson): each e-mail given unique id

 

Grain and scale: Looking at small data sets in broader sociocultural contexts

Colleen Cotter, Lisa McEntee-Atalianis and Danniella Samos
Queen Mary University of London and (LMA) Birkbeck, University of London

Tracing the migrant voice in UK media

Voice: linguistic construction of social personae (Keane 2003: 268)

They looked at quotations.

Jan-Dec 2015; migrants & Calais; Lexis Nexis

Investigating obesity

Corpus linguistics and news representations: a corpus-assisted framing analysis of mental health and arts participation messages in the British press
Dimitrinka Atanasova and Nelya Koteyko, Queen Mary University of London

Framing analysis: QUAL Framing is selecting aspects of reality and make them more salient (Entman 1993)

Keywords play a role in both framing analysis and corpus linguistics

Recovery was the most prominent frame

CL gives more opportunities to look at a wider range of articles (i.e. local newspapers cater for smaller communities).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphic Online Language Diagnostic

 

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The Graphic Online Language Diagnostic (“GOLD”) is a corpus tool that allows language educators to submit and analyze language data. GOLD was developed by the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research (“CALPER”) at The Pennsylvania State University (“PSU”), University Park, PA, USA under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Title VI, P229A060003 and P229A020010).

Link here: http://gold.gwserver1.net