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FYI: John Swales Conference Corpus transcripts available online
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John Swales Conference Corpus transcripts available online
Message 1: John Swales Conference Corpus transcripts available online
Date: 09-Feb-2009
From: Ute Römer <uroemerumich.edu>
Subject: John Swales Conference Corpus transcripts available online
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Dear all,
The John Swales Conference Corpus (JSCC) is now freely available fordownload from http://jscc.elicorpora.info/download (click on the ''Downloadthe corpus'' button).
The corpus contains the transcribed proceedings (presentations and Q&Asessions) of a conference that took place at the University of Michigan,Ann Arbor in June 2006 to celebrate the official retirement of ProfessorJohn Swales. It is the first publically available corpus of its kind.
I would like to thank a number of people who were involved in thecompilation of the JSCC:
- Begoña Bellés-Fortuño, Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A.Räisänen for video-taping the conference presentations that comprise the JSCC,
- Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, for providing part of thefunding for the transcription of the JSCC recordings,
- Stephen DiDomenico, Caitlin Gdowski, Reese Havlatka, Kristen Keller, andMercedes Querol-Julián and other researchers from GRAPE (Group for Researchon Academic and Professional English, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón,Spain) for creating the transcripts,
- former and present ELI Corpus Linguistics post-doctoral research fellowsStefanie Wulff and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, and ELI Corpus Linguisticsresearch assistants Miranda Kozman and Jesse Sielaff for checking thetranscripts against the audio files and for doing the XML encoding andvalidation,
and, of course, John Swales for supporting the project at all stages!
A first journal article (by Stefanie Wulff, John Swales and Kristen Keller)based on the JSCC will be published in the next issue of /English forSpecific Purposes/ and I look forward to seeing more studies that explorethe language of the JSCC presentations and Q&A sessions! I would appreciateit if you let me know (or email elicorporaumich.eduPhone: +1 734 763 7133Fax: +1 734 763 0369http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/http://www.uteroemer.com
MICASE: http://legacyweb.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/index.htmMICUSP: http://www.micusp.orgGeneration 1.5: http://gen15.micusp.org/JSCC: http://jscc.elicorpora.info/download
Surface mail address:Dr. Ute RömerUniversity of MichiganEnglish Language Institute500 E. Washington StreetAnn Arbor, MI 48104-2028USA
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Text/Corpus Linguistics
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