It’s been an exciting edition with four amazing talks and great audience engagement. Over 950 listened to the talks online and almost 1,800 signed up to the webinars and webinars alerts. This shows the interest in corpus linguistics (CL) research methods and its impact on the wider field of applied linguistics.
In the 2022 edition, we have looked at the contributions of corpus linguistics in SLA and have come to understand some of the complexities involved in using CL methods in this field; we have dived into health-related discourses and how corpus methods afford extraordinary insights into the use of language to talk about and represent obesity and gender. We’ve looked at how fragmentary constructions are pervasive in English, and not only in spoken texts! We’ve also examined central and peripheral perspectives in researching migration-related discurses using corpora.
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Thanks to our four speakers: Prof McEnery, Dr Brookes, Prof Pérez-Guerra and Dr Taylor. Their talks have inspired both early and not so early career researchers. Their insights have surely benefitted all of us. As one of the participants let me know: “These talks allowed me to listen to the people I read for my PhD and engage with them as if I was attending the conferences I cannot afford to attend myself”. Or this other testimony: “The event that you organized empower linguists to keep on doing research meaningfully”.
So thanks to the almost 1,000 people that attended the four talks and contributed to the conversation.
Thanks to our wonderful chairs Dr Pilar Aguado, Dr Joyce Lim and Ms Jiaqi Guo. I can´t forget here the support provided by the English Department at U. Murcia and the Facultad de Letras at U. Murcia.
Make sure you check out our series website and the 2021 and 2022 recordings.
We’ll hopefully see you next year!!!!
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