Category: applied linguistics

#CFP CLS12: Corpus studies at the lexis-grammar interface NEW deadline March 10

CLS12 will take place on Saturday 2 April 2016 at Edge Hill University.

The focus of CLS12 is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday’s view of lexis and grammar as “complementary perspectives” (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that “if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers” (1992: 64).

We welcome corpus-based papers which examine any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar, or to extend Halliday’s conception, studies which interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. The studies …

-may be located more towards the lexis end or the grammar end of the continuum.
-may be descriptive, theoretical or applied (e.g. related to language teaching).
-may (but don’t need to) be situated within any theoretical approach that recognises the combination or interaction of lexis and grammar (e.g. Construction Grammar, Lexical Grammar, Pattern Grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar).
-may be synchronic or diachronic.
We also welcome papers which discuss methodological issues related to the corpus-based study of the lexis-grammar interface.

Presentations will be allocated a total of 40 minutes (including at least 10 minutes for discussion).

Please send an abstract of 400-500 words (excluding references) to Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk). Please make sure to specify the research questions or hypotheses, the corpus and methodology, and the main findings.

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The deadline for abstract submission is 10 March 2016. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed.

More info: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/cls12/

New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

BAAL / Cambridge University Press Applied Linguistics Seminar Programme 2015-2016 and COST Action IS1306

New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges

New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st Century

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 26th & 27th May 2016

The 21st Century is witnessing increased discussions on immigration in local, national and international contexts. The aim of this seminar is to bridge the study of language and immigration and consider the extent to which immigrants learning new languages (which include learning majority, minority and/or heritage languages) may contribute to a more comprehensive and plurilingual view of integration today.

The proceedings will be directed by key themes and objectives as follows:
• What are the opportunities and challenges for immigrants who learn new languages?
• To what extent do immigrant speakers challenge current conceptions of integration, cohesion and citizenship?
• Which steps or initiatives could facilitate a more comprehensive view of integration, cohesion and citizenship in national and minority language contexts?

Confirmed plenary speakers:
Professor Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot-Watt University)
Professor Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow)

Round table discussion: Immigration in the 21st century: language, integration and citizenship
Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost (Cardiff University)
Professor Bernadette O’Rourke (Heriot-Watt University)
Dr Cassie Smith-Christmas (University of the Highlands and Islands)

Workshop: Immigrants, integration and multilingual practices in the UK
Ms Mirona Moraru (Cardiff University)

Fee: This is a free event and lunch will be provided on both days

Please submit an abstract of no more than 350 words (including references) by 29th February 2016 to baalcupseminar2016@gmail.com.

Contact details (name, affiliation and email address) should be included in the body of the email together with the title.

Please also indicate whether you wish to present a paper or a poster. We intend to publish an edited volume based on the seminar papers and therefore encourage participation from those who are in a position to contribute to the volume.

CFP Journal Research in Corpus Linguistics


Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL), issue 4 (2016)
(Official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO)

Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics AELINCO, is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published annually, aiming at the publication of original research based on corpus data from different languages and language families and from different theoretical perspectives and frameworks, with the goal of improving our knowledge about the linguistic theoretical background of a language, a language family or any type of cross-linguistic phenomena/constructions/assumptions.

RiCL invites previously unpublished research articles and book reviews in the field of corpus linguistics. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. The journal also publishes special issues on specific topics, with leading specialists in the field of corpus linguistics as guest editors.

Editors: Javier Pérez-Guerra (University of Vigo) and María José López-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Links:
– journal website: http://www.aelinco.es/ricl
– instructions for authors: http://www.aelinco.es/ojs/index.php/ricl/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

#CFP Learner Language, #corpuslinguistics and #mobilelearning deadline March 31

 

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Learner Language, Corpus Linguistics and Mobile Learning

at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, 20 July 2016

Pre-conference workshop of the 12th Teaching and Language Corpora Conference organised by the

Transforming European Learner Language into Learning Opportunities (TELL-OP) team

Call for Papers

TELL-OP is a Strategic Partnership that seeks to promote the take-up of innovative practices in European language learning (Data Driven Learning, DDL) by supporting personalised learning approaches that rely on the use of information and communication technology and open educational resources by bringing together the knowledge and expertise of European stakeholders in the fields of language education, corpus and applied linguistics, e-learning and knowledge engineering in order to promote cooperation and contribute to unleash the potential behind already available web 2.0 services to promote the personalised e-learning of languages in the contexts of higher and adult education, in particular, through mobile devices.

This pre-conference workshop will take place all day on Wednesday, 20 July 2016. It will start with an introduction to TELL-OP aims and outcomes including a beta version of the TELL-OP language learning application developed by the workshop organisers and end with a round table. As part of the workshop, we would like to invite stakeholders in the field to submit abstracts for paper presentations. We would like to invite educators, teachers, linguists, software developers, and second/foreign language researchers working at the interface of learner language, corpus linguistics and mobile learning.

Paper presentations will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Papers reporting on empirical research should represent either completed work, or work in progress where some results can be reported. Abstracts on all topics related to the connection between learner language, corpus linguistics and mobile learning are welcome, especially those focusing on one of the following topics:

  • (personalized) mobile learning
  • DDL and mobile learning
  • (learner) corpus research and their benefit for mobile learning
  • teaching with mobile learning applications
  • teaching and/or assessment with mobile learning devices
  • automatic feedback in mobile learning devices
  • corpus linguistics applications in mobile environments

We are welcoming paper presentations on any of these topics listed above. However, we are especially encouraging presentations that combine any of these topics. We request abstracts of 500 words (not counting the reference list) for paper presentations. Abstracts can be submitted to:

tellop@um.es

The deadline for abstract submission is 31 March 2016.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 30 April 2016, along with further information on the workshop.

We hope to see you in Giessen in July 2016!

The organising committee consists of:

Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Dogan Bulut, Baki Dursun, Ibrahim Ercan, Sandra Götz, Stefanie Hehner, Fanny Meunier, Carlos Ordoñana, Karin Puga, Julie Van de Vyver, Pilar Aguado, Gregorio Martínez and Purificación Sánchez.

E-mail: tellop@um.es