LINGUIST List 29.1298
Fri Mar 23 2018
Calls: General Linguistics/UK
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 20-Mar-2018
From: Rhys Sandow <rs411
sussex.ac.uk>
Subject:
Workshopping Words and Opening Dialogues: Postgraduate Forum in Linguistics
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Dialogues: Postgraduate Forum in Linguistics
Date: 10-Jul-2018 - 11-Jul-2018
Location: Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex,
United Kingdom
Contact Person: Sarah Fitzgerald
Meeting Email:
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https://workshoppingwords.wordpress.com/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 13-Apr-2018
Meeting Description:
Workshopping words is a free two-day
conference and workshopping event which will be held at University of Sussex on July
10-11. Each day will centre on a plenary talk and workshop designed by experts to
equip PhD students with cutting edge skills.
The first day of the event
will focus on public facing linguistics. Post graduate students often lack
opportunities for training in public engagement and can find it challenging to
satisfy the ‘impact’ criteria of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). As well as
providing an opportunity for PhD students to present on the intersection between
their research and public engagement, day one will feature a plenary talk from
Professor M. Lynne Murphy (University of Sussex) entitled ‘Linguistics for
everybody: Communicating with the public about language’. Professor Murphy, A.K.A
‘Lynneguist’, author of the hugely popular blog, ‘Separated by a Common Language’
(
www.separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk)
will also be running a practical workshop on public engagement on the first day of
the event.
On the evening of the first day there will be a conference
dinner in Brighton which all attendees are invited to.
Day two will focus
on corpus linguistics. In our current post truth climate, it is increasingly
desirable that humanities research is grounded in empirical evidence. Corpus
methodology is becoming increasingly important in linguistic research. In addition
to presentations from PhD students on their corpus based research, day two will
feature a plenary talk from Professor Bas Aarts (UCL), director of the Survey of
English Usage entitled ‘Methodology in Corpus Linguistics’. In addition, Professor
Aarts will run a workshop on corpus methodology using the cutting-edge tools he and
his team have developed for the ICE GB corpus (see
www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice.htm)..
This is a free event funded by the CHASE training and development fund,
however registration is essential. See our Eventbrite page for further details.
For further information please see our contact page or email Sarah FitzGerald
sf285
sussex.ac.uk.
Call for Papers:
Workshopping Words and Opening Dialogues: Postgraduate
Forum in Linguistics
Date: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 of July 2018
Location:
University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton.
We invite papers from Ph.D.
candidates to present at a themed conference entitled ‘Workshopping Words and
Opening Dialogues: Postgraduate Forum in Linguistics’. We are seeking abstracts
related to the themes of Corpus Linguistics and/or Public Facing Linguistics.
With public engagement becoming increasingly important as a required practice of
academic researchers, this event will provide a space for ideas and experiences to
be shared by early career linguists with a diverse range of interests and
specialisms. Early Career Researchers, often lack opportunities for training in
public engagement and can find it challenging to satisfy the ‘impact’ criteria of
the Research Excellence Framework (REF). We welcome papers on public dissemination
of linguistic research of any kind.
In our current post truth climate, it
is increasingly desirable that humanities research is grounded in empirical
evidence. Corpus methodology is becoming increasingly important in linguistic
research. It is a core methodology that transcends the many disciplines encompassed
by linguistics and connects otherwise disparate streams of research. However,
specialised conferences can result in niche conversations regarding methodological,
theoretical, or analytical developments. This conference provides an opportunity to
collectively consider approaches to corpus methods from various branches of
linguistics. We welcome papers on linguistic research incorporating corpus work,
corpus building, or methodological approaches.
Abstracts may be submitted
on either or both topics and on research either completed or ongoing. If you would
like to present, please send an abstract of 250 words to Sarah FitzGerald sf285
sussex.ac.uk. The
deadline for abstract submissions is 13 of April 2018. Successful applicants will be
contacted before the end of April 2018. For further details please see our website
https://workshoppingwords.wordpress.com/.
Participation at this event is free of charge. There will be free liquid
refreshments and a lunch provided on both days. On the evening of the first day of
the conference (July 10), there will be a conference dinner in Brighton which all
participants are invited to attend. However, registration is essential and will open
as soon as the programme is announced in early May. If you would like to be given
priority when registration opens then you can put yourself on the waiting list (
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshopping-words-and-opening-dialogues-postgraduate-forum-in-linguistics-tickets-43096825766),
this will give you 24 hours advanced notice of ticket releases.
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