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.
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).
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.
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).
“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!!!!!!
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.
The 7th edition of Writing Science in English aims to provide participants with strategies to write in a clearer and more academic way in English.
In this edition, we will delve into the use of digital resources that allow us to achieve these goals. To this end, we will combine theoretical sessions with practical activities.
The course will be conducted in English and will be taught by specialist teachers from various universities in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain.
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).