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CFP 21st AELFE conference U. Zaragoza 28th – 30th June, 2023

This joint international conference brings together the 21st annual conference of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes (AELFE2023) and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association (LSPPC7). Both associations promote the use of languages for specific purposes and professional communication. The main goal of this joint conference is to create a meeting point for scholars (researchers and practitioners) and allow them to discuss and exchange their views on the conference theme with participants from different world regions and do so from multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives.

URL: https://aelfe-lsppcconference2023.com/

Important dates

Deadline for abstracts: January 15th, 2023

Notification of acceptance: January 30th, 2023

Registration starts: January 30th, 2023

Deadline for early bird registration: March 30th, 2023

Registration ends: June 20th, 2023

Métodos de investigación para los estudios del discurso y de traducción

Seminario de investigación del grupo de investigación autonómico CIRES (Comunicación Internacional y Retos Sociales), de la U. de Zaragoza.

Métodos de investigación para los estudios del discurso y de traducción , 27 de octubre

Pascual Pérez-Paredes (U. de Murcia): “Lingüística de corpus y análisis de registros y géneros profesionales”

Julia Valeiras (U. Jaume I): “Métodos de investigación en análisis multimodal del discurso de géneros orales”

Noa Talaván (UNED): “Métodos de investigación en traducción audiovisual didáctica: el proyecto TRADILEX”

Miguel Ángel Benítez (U. de Zaragoza): “Métodos de investigación en detección de emoción y opinión en discurso propagandístico”

Corpus linguistics and the discursive construction of migrants

Online talk November 9, 12:00 (Madrid time) / 11:00 (UK time)

Dr Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex

This talk is part of the Corpus & applied linguistics research 2022 online event.

Free registration link.

Abstract

The ways in which migration is framed in our public spaces influence who we think of when we think of migration, how we think about those people, and what kinds of responses are considered appropriate to their movement. In this paper, I want to show how corpus linguistics can be used to build a fuller picture of how migration is framed. I will start by addressing how corpus linguistics can help determine ‘who’ we should analyse when investigating the discursive construction of migrant groups. Then I will move on to what corpus linguistics, combined with discourse analysis can tell us about ‘how’ they are represented. Finally, I will discuss how we can use corpus linguistics to compare such representations across cultures and languages.

Charlotte Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics at the University of Sussex. Her work is broadly concerned with language and persuasion and the rhetorical uses of language. Her current project examines the role of memory in migration discourses and unpicks the ways in which our contemporary public discourses both recycle past frames, and elide and re-shape past experiences. She also has a keen interest in methodological issues in corpus and discourse work. Her book-length publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse (with Anna Marchi), Exploring Absence and Silence in Discourse (with Melani Schroeter), Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington & Alison Duguid) and Mock Politeness in English and Italian. She is working on a new monograph titled Migration Discourses and Memory which will be coming out in 2023.

You can check out the 2021 talks here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKIIQL6u1mXD2V9ZaT-_Q/featured

This online event is organized by the Universidad de Murcia and the E020-07 research group (Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento).

A corpus-friendly analysis of fragmentary constructions in English

Online talk. October 26, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time)

Prof Javier Pérez-Guerra, Universidade de Vigo

This talk is part of the Corpus & applied linguistics research 2022 online event.

Free registration link.

Abstract
The concept of ‘fragment’ covers a wide array of structures of a very diverse nature, from interjections and headings to lists. In this talk, ‘fragment’ is narrowed down to encompass only stand-alone constructions which, despite their reduced, non-canonical, fragmentary structure, convey a propositional meaning comparable to that of complete sentences, as in Well done to Giles! and Good old Hendon next stop. The talk presents a theoretical (couched within Cognitive Construction Grammar) and an empirical characterisation of fragmentary expressions in contemporary English, based on the corpus analysis of sentence fragments in written and spoken English in recent diachrony (BNC1994 and BNC2014).

Javier Pérez-Guerra is Professor in the English Department of the University of Vigo (Spain). Javier is the coordinator of the LVTC (Language Variation and Textual Categorisation) research group in this institution, and the principal investigator of a number research projects funded by mainly the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science. His areas of specialisation are information packaging in the clause, multidimensional approaches to register variation as applied to earlier periods of English, the study of grammatical variation between Early Modern and Present-day English by means of computational techniques, and the impact of performance preferences and ease of processing on the design of grammars.

You can check out the 2021 talks here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKIIQL6u1mXD2V9ZaT-_Q/featured

Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2022

“Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2022“ es un ciclo de conferencias organizado por la Universidad de Murcia entre el 5 y el 26 de octubre de 2022. Las conferencias tendrán lugar a las 18:00 (hora de Madrid) los días 5, 12, 19 y 26 de octubre via ZOOM.

–Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use,

Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster

October 5, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time)

–Obesity in the News: A Corpus Linguistics Perspective

Dr Gavin Brookes, University of Lancaster

October 12, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time)

–A corpus-friendly analysis of fragmentary constructions in English

Prof Javier Pérez Guerra, Universidad de Vigo

October 26, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time)

–Corpus linguistics and the discursive construction of migrants

Dr Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex

November 9, 12:00 (Madrid time) / 11:00 (UK time) New date!!!!!!

Registration link: https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ey8fEpC3RkC7_vAUKEpAgg

Tras la inscripción, se enviará un correo electrónico con el enlace del seminario web para las cuatro charlas.

Las charlas de la edición de 2021 se encuentran aquí:

You can check out the 2021 talks here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKIIQL6u1mXD2V9ZaT-_Q/featured

“Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2022“ está organizado por el grupo de investigación E020-07 de la Universidad de Murcia “Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento” y esponsorizado por la Facultad de Letras y el Departamento de Filología Inglesa de la Universidad de Murcia.

Para más información:

Corpus & applied linguistics research 2022

Texts, corpora, evidence: using a NLP pipeline to examine textual genres

Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Universitat Jaume I, 9 September 2022

In this workshop we will discuss how corpus approaches to textual analysis have increased our understanding of genres and registers. By looking at existing research designs, we will explore both what corpora can and can’t offer to researchers. The main focus of the workshop is to explore the use of ProTool GENTT, a natural processing (NLP) pipeline that makes use of basic machine learning algorithms.

Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research 2022

We can now confirm the lineup for the forthcoming edition of Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics research 2022. As in the previous 2021 edition, we are so lucky to have a fabulous group of scholars that will share their insights into the use of corpus linguistics methods in a range of applied linguistics research areas.

In this 2022 edition, the four talks will be given by:

Dr Gavin Brookes, University of Lancaster

Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster

Prof Javier Pérez Guerra, University of Vigo

Dr Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex

Further details about dates and titles will be provided shortly.

This online event is organized by the Universidad de Murcia and the research group E020-07 (Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento).