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Video: Corpus linguistics and the analysis of political discourse 13 October 2021

–Corpus linguistics and the analysis of political discourse

Prof. Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio, Universidad de Granada
13 October 2021, 19:00 (Madrid time) Registration link

Sala de Grados Jorge Guillén, Facultad de Letras (aforo muy reducido), Murcia

After two decades looking at political discourse in different contexts, written in several languages and from various complementary perspectives, I would like to think that I have been able to grasp the nettle, and expose the essential tricks of such an important, at points bombastic, at points ineffective, cultural product. I have analysed the impact of gender in political speeches, politicians’ metaphorical construal of the concept “nation”, how fallacies are articulated in argumentation, body language and trustworthiness in politics, the language of evaluation in populism, you name it. That is why I thought I definitely had the clue to its essence. Nevertheless, I couldn’t be more wrong. The very persuasive and performative nature of politics makes political discourse look something slippery, with still too many angles unseen to uncover. In this presentation, I will try to show how corpus methods can help to proceed in this direction; by avoiding any bias possible, we will hopefully see how concordances, sketches, semi-automatic annotation, etc. can shed light on what patterns can be present in, for example, right- and left-wing radicalism, and subsequently reflect upon why they are, interestingly enough, the same ones.

Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio is Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Granada, Spain. Her main research area is corpus-based CDA, where she focuses on the notions of representation and power enactment in public discourse.

Coordination: Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes

This event is sponsored by the Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia, and the English Department, Universidad de Murcia.

Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC)


The different subcorpora of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC), now all online and open acess at the Repository of the University https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/21846?locale-attribute=en, were accompanied by a volume with methodological and pilot studies. John Benjamins has just published a book about the last of the corpora uploaded, the Corpus of English Life Science Texts (CELiST).

All families and genera. Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts. Edited by Isabel Moskowich (University of A Coruña), Inés Lareo (University of Vigo) and Gonzalo Camiña (University of Nantes)
https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.237

For more info check out the Research Group on Multidimensional Corpus Based Studies in English @MuStE_UdC

Video: Researching writing development with a corpus – 6 October 2021

–Researching writing development with a corpus
Dr Phil Durrant, University of Exeter
6 October 2021, 19:00 (Madrid time) – Register

Corpus research methods have much to offer the study of writing development, enabling reliable analysis of large samples of authentic learner writing and highlighting subtle developmental patterns that are difficult to detect by other means. While the increasing availability of corpora and of software for analysing them are opening up exciting new research possibilities, it is important to reflect on the methodological nature of such work and to consider what corpora can and cannot tell us about writing development. Drawing on both a large-scale literature review and a recent corpus project on school children’s writing in England, this presentation will explore how corpus measures of written language use can be employed and interpreted to inform studies of first and second language writing development. 

Phil Durrant is Associate Professor of Language and Education at the University of Exeter. He previously taught English at language schools and universities in Turkey and the UK. 

Coordination: Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes

This event is sponsored by the Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia, and the English Department, Universidad de Murcia.

Registration links for Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research online event – October 2021

–Researching writing development with a corpus
Dr Phil Durrant, University of Exeter
6 October 2021, 19:00 (Madrid time) – Register

–Corpus linguistics and the analysis of political discourse
Prof. Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio, Universidad de Granada
13 October 2021, 19:00 (Madrid time) – Register

–Corpus linguistics and the analysis of language ideology
Dr. Rachelle Vessey, Carleton University, Canada
20 October, 19:00 (Madrid time) – Register

–Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of L2 Spoken and Written Texts
Dr Kris Kyle, University of Oregon
26 October, 19:00 (Madrid time) – Register

For more information visit https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2021lectures/

All talks will start at 19:00 (Madrid-Paris-Brussels-Berlin time)

This event is sponsored by the Facultad de Letras and the English Department at Universidad de Murcia. Event organized by the The Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering research group  at Universidad de Murcia.

Updated 20/09/2021

Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research October 2021 free Zoom event

Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research examines areas of intersection between research in applied linguistics and the use of techniques and methods of corpus linguistics. This first 2021 edition will feature the following topics:

-corpus linguistics and studies of first and second language writing development,

-critical discourse analysis,

-language ideology and corpus linguistics,

-the analysis of English as a second/foreign language from a computational perspective.

Speakers and dates

–Researching writing development with a corpus
Dr Phil Durrant, University of Exeter
6 October 2021, 19:00

–Corpus linguistics and the analysis of political discourse
Prof. Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio, Universidad de Granada
13 October 2021, 19:00

–Corpus linguistics and the analysis of language ideology
Dr. Rachelle Vessey, Carleton University, Canada
20 October, 19:00

–Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of L2 Spoken and Written Texts
Dr Kris Kyle, University of Oregon
26 October, 19:00

Information and registration

For more information and instructions to register visit https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2021lectures/

The talks will start at 19:00 (Madrid-Paris-Brussels-Berlin time)

This event is sponsored by the Facultad de Letras and the English Department at Universidad de Murcia. Event organized by the The Languages for specific purposes, language corpora, and English linguistics applied to knowledge engineering research group  at Universidad de Murcia.

Updated 15/09/2021