Category: corpus linguistics

Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on. A tribute to Douglas Biber

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 spoken registers, such as movies, music, magazine texts, student writing, social media, letters to the editor, and reports, in different languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) and contexts (engineering, journalism, the classroom, the entertainment industry, the Internet, etc.). The book also includes a personal account of the development of the method by its creator, Doug Biber, an introduction to MD statistics, as well as an application of MD analysis to corpus design. The book should be essential reading to anyone with an interest in how texts, genres, and registers are used in society, what their lexis and grammar look like, and how they are interrelated.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 60]  2014.  xxxviii, 328 pp.

CFP Current Work in Corpus Linguistics: Working with Traditionally-conceived Corpora and Beyond

 
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 Valladolid, Spain). The University of Valladolid is a public university located in North-west Spain. Established in the 13th Century, it is one of the oldest universities in the world. It offers over 100 degrees, 50 masters and doctorate programmes, boasting a broad network of international relations, research centres as well as sports and cultural facilities together with a rich architectural and documentary heritage.

The conference will be held at the Palacio de Congresos “Conde Ansúrez” at the heart of Valladolid from 5 to 7 March 2015. The Conference will focus on current work in Corpus Linguistics as well as future developments of the discipline, especially in connection with the coming of age of Big Data.

Abstracts must be sent in English or Spanish and must not exceed 550 words. The time allotted for the presentation is 20 minutes (with 5 minutes for discussion). Abstracts for poster sessions will also be accepted.

The abstract proposals should be related to one of the conference panels outlined by AELINCO. Each panel has a director who shall communicate the acceptance or rejection of the proposals after the evaluation by experts.

The first circular provides information about the submission of proposals.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 1 December 2014.

For further information:

http://aelinco-en.blogs.uva.es/  

Using Sketch Engine: some how-to resources

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 Complutense de Madrid, Junio 2011 (última revisión noviembre 2011)

Organizado por:

Doaa Samy (doaa_samy@hotmail.com) (doaasamy@cu.edu.eg)

Ana Fernández Pampillón Cesteros (apampi@filol.ucm.es)

Jorge Arús Hita (jarus@filol.ucm.es)

Receptive and productive mastery of different text varieties

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 style. CUP.