CORPUS APPROACHES TO THE LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE
The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the Oxford Text Archive are
organising two events this year to take forward the study of the
language of literature using linguistic corpora.
** Oxford Workshop **
Call for participants (registration deadline 7th April 2006)
Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN.
Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th May 2006
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/litlangling/events/approaches/home.htm
** Joensuu Workshop **
Call for participants
Pre-conference workshop at PALA 2006, Joensuu, Finland
Tuesday 25th July 2006
http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/workshops.html
OXFORD WORKSHOP
'Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature' is a two-day workshop
in Oxford on the 17th and 18th May 2006. This workshop is aimed at
researchers and teachers in stylistics and literary studies who are
interested in acquiring more expertise in methods of analysis using
linguistic corpora, or sharing their experiences of work with corpora.
Invited speakers are Jonathon Culpeper (Lancaster University), Bill Louw
(University of Zimbabwe) and Michaela Mahlberg (University of
Liverpool). Full details and how to register are online at
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/litlangling/events/approaches/home.htm. There is
no registration fee for this event, but places are limited and you are
requested to apply for a place with a supporting statement.
The workshop will aim to exploit the potential for more widespread use
of corpora in the study of literature. It will be an opportunity to
disseminate and discuss examples of successful research which has shed
new light on literary texts through the techniques of corpus
linguistics. Participants will be armed with arguments, language
resources, tools and methods to take back to their departments to train
colleagues and to use in their research and teaching.
The workshop is one of a series of Advanced Workshops funded by the AHRC
ICT Methods Network (http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/).
JOENSUU WORKSHOP
There will also be an opportunity to discuss these issues and do the
hands-on practical work at a further one-day pre-conference workshop on
Tuesday 25th July at the PALA annual conference in Joensuu. This
workshop will be suitable both for people who come to the Oxford
workshop and want to take the discussion further, and for newcomers.
Invited speakers are Jonathan Culpeper and Michaela Mahlberg. Full
details of this event are on the conference website at
http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/workshops.html.
The PALA conference will be the most important stylistics conference
worldwide in 2006. Workshop participants are expected to register for
the ful conference, and there is an additional fee of 60 euros to
register for the workshop. The deadline for submission of papers to the
main PALA conference is 31st March 2006 (see
http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/).
For more details about either event, please contact the workshop email
workshop@ota.ox.ac.uk.
-- Martin Wynne Head of the Oxford Text Archive and AHDS Literature, Languages and LinguisticsOxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford UK - OX2 6NN Tel: +44 1865 283299 Fax: +44 1865 273275 martin.wynne@oucs.ox.ac.uk
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