LINGUIST List 8.242

Thu Feb 20 1997

Confs: Corpus Seminar, Rhetorical Typology

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1. Chris Gledhill, BAAL / CUP: Register and Corpus Dynamics
2. Michael Darnell, 24TH UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM

B.A.A.L. / CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Seminar programme.
2nd Aston Corpus Seminar.
Friday 11th April 1997, Aston University.

"Register and Corpus Dynamics"

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Thank you to all of you who enquired about the forthcoming seminar.
Receipts, a full programme and conference details will be sent to you
soon. Bookings for accommodation have been made: please advise on any
changes.

There are five free places left for the seminar (including those
reserved for full and student members of B.A.A.L). Full price 15 GBP
and concessions 6 GBP. Cheques payable to Aston University, please.

Dr Chris Gledhill (organiser)
LES, Aston University
Birmingham UK
B4 7ET
c.j.gledhillaston.ac.uk. / +44 121 359 3611

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME:

09h00 Refreshments

09h30 Introduction: Wolfgang Teubert (Int. Journ. Corpus Linguistics /
Mannheim).

10h15 Ylva Berglund (Uppsala) The compilation of a subcorpus: working
on the BNC.

11h00 Coffee / Tea

11h15 Laura Gavioli (Bologna): Learning genre conventions through
small corpora concordancing: an experiment in a language course for
interpreters and translators.

12h00 Christina Su-Hsun Tsai (London): A Comparative Analysis of
Computer mediated Communication (CMC) Versus Non CMC Texts Along the
Dimension of Abstract vs. Non-Abstract Information.

12h45 Lunch

13h15 Marco Rocha (Sussex): A description of an annotation scheme to
analyse anaphora in dialogues.

14h00 Hans Lindquist (Va'xjo'): The genitive versus the
of-construction in different text types.

14h45 Magnus Ljung (Stockholm): Sources.

15h30 Coffee / Tea

15h45 Patricia Thomas (Geneva): Small is beautiful: properties of
restricted corpora of medical research.

16h30 Marc Weeber (Groningen) Information on Side Effects in Medical
Corpora: Differences between Side Effect Words.

17h45 Rochdi Oueslati (Strasbourg): Terms and patterns analysis in
sublangages.

18h30 Closing remarks.

		PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
			FOR
	THE 24TH UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE
		LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM

This announcement is being circulated simply so you may mark your
calendars if you are interested. Further announcements will appear
with details regarding speakers, scheduling, and the submission of
abstracts. We apologize for multiple postings.

The dates for the symposium are APRIL 23TH through APRIL 25TH, 1998

The theme of our 24th symposium is

	CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC and RHETORICAL TYPOLOGY

These two areas of research constitute complementary fields of
investigation into influences on text production. Contrastive
Rhetoric has focused on cultural and rhetorical expectations
in different languages and cultures, with an emphasis on the
resulting influences on ESL composition. Rhetorical typology
has investigated the effects of lexicalization typologies on
the patterns of sentence and discourse content in different languages.

This symposium will afford researchers in both areas the opportunity
to meet and exchange ideas and information. As well, this symposium
may be of importance to those interested in ESL pedagogy and/or
composition and rhetoric.

For further information, please contact

Michael Darnell
e-mail: darnellcsd.uwm.edu
by post:
	Michael Darnell
	Dept. of English
	P. O. Box 413
	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
	Milwaukee, WI
	53201-0413