LINGUIST List 15.1830

Thu Jun 17 2004

FYI: Text, Discourse and Corpora; New Dialect Survey

Editor for this issue: Anne Clarke <annelinguistlist.org>

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1. Michaela Mahlberg, Michael Hoey Lectures at U of Saarbruecken
2. Bert Vaux, New Dialect Survey from U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Thanks to support from Macmillan Publishers, Professor Michael Hoey
from the University of Liverpool joins the team of lecturers for the
short intensive course:

TEXT, DISCOURSE AND CORPORA: corpora in linguistics and related fields

14/09 - 18/09/2004 

University of Saarbruecken, Germany 


The other lecturers are:

Prof. John Sinclair (TWC Italy) 
Prof. Wolfgang Teubert (Birmingham) 
Michaela Mahlberg (Saarbruecken) 

Guest lectures by: 

Prof. Michael Stubbs (Trier) 
Prof. Erich Steiner (Saarbruecken) 
Dr. Silvia Hansen-Schirra (Saarbruecken)

Registration forms are available on the web now

http://fr46.uni-saarland.de/tdc2004/ 

Our new and improved English dialect survey is now ready for the
taking at:

http://www3.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/linguistics/survey/

This survey contains about 550 questions, compared to 120 in the one
we ran last year. It also enables us to map responses from outside the
contintental US, so we will be including maps for Canada and Great
Britain as soon as we receive a sufficient number of responses. As
before, all of the questions are suitable for consumption by
non-linguists, so please encourage your students, friends, and
relatives to take it as well.

Thanks,

Bert