Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
From the wp.lancs.ac.uk site: Geoff Leech was born in Gloucester in 1936. He studied at University College London for his BA, MA, and PhD, and taught there as a lecturer. He came to Lancaster in 1969 as one of the first language specialists in the English Department, and in 1974 he became the first Head … Read more
Submissions for a Special Issue of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, entitled “Under-resourced Languages, Collaborative Approaches and Linked Open Data: Resources, Methods and Applications”. Important: More detailed information will be made available in September 2014. For more information please contact the guest editors. PRELIMINARY SUBMISSION DATE: November 15, 2014 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONSUnder-resourced languages are … Read more
Edited by Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto São Paulo Catholic University Approximately a quarter of a century ago, the Multi-Dimensional (MD) approach—one of the most powerful (and controversial) methods in Corpus Linguistics—saw its first book-length treatment. In its eleven chapters, this volume presents all new contributions covering a wide range of written and … Read more
Current Work in Corpus Linguistics: Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond Welcome to Valladolid for the CILC2015, the seventh edition of the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics organized by AELINCO, the Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics and hosted this year by the Department of English and the International Centre for Lexicography (University of de … Read more
General SKE Youtube Channel Brief overview Creating your corpus and data upload Finding metadata for source documents in the Sketch Engine Concordancer Using the Expert option: ‘Context’ in the Sketch Engine Thinning down your concordance output Using Sketch Difference for lexical disambiguation Taller sobre herramientas de análisis textual: La herramienta Sketch EngineFacultad de Filología, Universidad … Read more
Receptive mastery of different text varieties increases access to information, while productive mastery increases the ability to participate in varying communities. And if you cannot analyze a variety that is new to you, you cannot help yourself or others learn to master it. Biber & Conrad (2009:4) Biber, D. & Conrad, S. 2009.Register, genre and … Read more