Taller práctico presencial de Lingüística de Corpus sobre AntConc: “A Corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis” impartido por el profesor Pascual Pérez Paredes.
Organizado por el Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas de la Comunitat Valenciana
Lugar y fecha: Universidad Jaume I, Castellón, 16 diciembre 2022
Inscripción: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjn84Nq8UeBJNJC84ll7FSQ2APA09nNdW5cglZYKM7_7jJJQ/viewform
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.
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!!!!
–Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of L2 Spoken and Written Texts
Dr Kris Kyle, University of Oregon
26 October, 19:00 (Madrid-Paris-Brussels-Berlin time) Zoom registration link
Productive lexical proficiency has been an important topic in applied linguistics for over 25 years (e.g., Crossley et al., 2011; Kyle & Crossley, 2015; Laufer & Nation, 1995). During this time, word frequency measures have played a dominant role (Laufer & Nation, 1995). While word frequency is undoubtedly important, a number of recent studies have demonstrated that lexical proficiency is most accurately modeled when multiple lexical and lexicogrammatical features are used (e.g., Kim et al., 2018; Kyle et al., 2018;). In this talk, an overview of selected measures of lexical proficiency at the word (e.g., concreteness, contextual diversity, lexical access, etc.) and lexicogrammatical (i.e., n-gram, dependency relations and verb-verb argument construction strength of association) level is provided. The use of these features is then highlighted in two learner corpus research studies.
Kristopher Kyle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. His research interests include second language acquisition, second language writing, and second language assessment. He is addresses these topics using corpus linguistic methods through the adaptation and development of natural language processing tools.
Coordination: Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes
This event is sponsored by the Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia, and the English Department, Universidad de Murcia.
–Corpus linguistics and the analysis of language ideology
Dr. Rachelle Vessey, Carleton University, Canada
20 October, 19:00 (Madrid-Paris-Brussels-Berlin time) Zoom registration link
In this presentation, I will introduce the notion of ‘language ideology’ and how it can be studied using corpus linguistics. Although the notion of ‘ideology’ is widely associated with discourse and is analyzed in various discourse analytic approaches (including corpus-assisted discourse approaches), the concept of language ideology is more specific and has been less frequently tackled using corpus linguistic methods. In this paper, I show how corpus linguistic methods can help identify and examine language ideologies in both their implicit and explicit manifestations. Moreover, I argue that language ideology provides a critical reflexive lens, enabling corpus linguists to (re)consider the nature of the data they examine. To highlight the opportunities and challenges, I draw on examples from research on the United Nations, newspaper articles, and Twitter.
Rachelle Vessey is an Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University (Canada). Her research centres on language ideologies and how these manifest in discourse. She is particularly interested in how beliefs about language contribute to social inclusion and exclusion. She has examined language ideologies in large corpora of (English and French) Canadian newspapers, online forums, interviews with domestic workers, United Nations official documents and extremist magazines.
Coordination: Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes
This event is sponsored by the Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Murcia, and the English Department, Universidad de Murcia.
–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.
ReCALL special issue Researching uses of corpora for language teaching and learning, edited by Alex Boulton and Pascual Pérez-Paredes, is now available online.