Pre-conference workshops
Workshops will be held in the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 April 2012.
Workshop 1:
Alexandra D’Arcy (University of Victoria, Canada) For Ws and an H of mining corpora for discourse-pragmatic variation
Workshop 2:
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Historical corpus pragmatics: Methodological challenges
There will also be a workshop for English language teachers in the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 April 2012. The workshop entitled "Analysing Spoken English: Resources and techniques for teachers" is co-organized by Sue Fox (Queen Mary, University of London) and Heike Pichler (University of Salford), with contributions by the creators of the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE) (Newcastle University). The workshop aims at disseminating to English Language teachers the insights obtained from scholarly research into language variation and change, and to provide teachers with an overview of databanks and resources available on-line for use in the classroom. For further information about this workshop, please click here.
Workshop 1:
Alexandra D’Arcy (University of Victoria, Canada) For Ws and an H of mining corpora for discourse-pragmatic variation
Workshop 2:
Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Historical corpus pragmatics: Methodological challenges
There will also be a workshop for English language teachers in the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 April 2012. The workshop entitled "Analysing Spoken English: Resources and techniques for teachers" is co-organized by Sue Fox (Queen Mary, University of London) and Heike Pichler (University of Salford), with contributions by the creators of the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (DECTE) (Newcastle University). The workshop aims at disseminating to English Language teachers the insights obtained from scholarly research into language variation and change, and to provide teachers with an overview of databanks and resources available on-line for use in the classroom. For further information about this workshop, please click here.
