The 7th summer school hosted by the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham will take place from 11th to 14th September 2023.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/event...

Who is it for? The summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own research. Our summer school aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-supported linguistic research. Building on the strengths of our Centre for Corpus Research (CCR)https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/index.aspx and our guest speakers, we strive to offer participants a learning experience that benefits their own specific research needs and enriches their experience as researchers more widely. There will be the opportunity for participants to present their own work and receive feedback from our expert team. Given the specialised nature of the programme, a basic understanding of corpus linguistics is highly recommended.

What’s the format? The summer school will be online and consist of synchronous and asynchronous elements. Prior to the synchronous part, participants will be expected to complete asynchronous activities consisting of self-study video lectures and hands-on materials. The synchronous part will take place from 11 to 14 September, 2023. Over the course of four days, participants will be actively involved in two kinds of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will put the emphasis on the learning of practical skills for the purpose of extracting and analysing corpus data of various kinds, and the application of this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research and theoretical foundations from our team.

What is it about? Topics typically covered in the programme include (non-exhaustive list and subject to change): Corpus linguistics for media analysis Analysis of spoken corpora CQPweb Introduction to R and tidyverse Web scraping with R Digital humanities and the study of fiction Sign language corpora Regular expressions Corpora and legal research Critical issues in keyness analysis Behavioral Profiles Machine learning in corpus linguistics Corpus-based discourse analysis Corpus linguistics and language learning

Who are the teachers? Our local team of corpus linguists includes Dagmar Divjakhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/divjak-dagmar.aspx, Natalie Finlaysonhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=203619, Jason Grafmillerhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=135409, Jack Grievehttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/grieve-jack.aspx, Michaela Mahlberghttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/mahlberg-michaela.aspx, Karen McAuliffehttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/law/mcauliffe-karen.aspx, Petar Milinhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/milin-petar.aspx, Akira Murakamihttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira.aspx, Florent Perekhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/perek-florent.aspx, Laurence Romainhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/romain-laurence.aspx, Adam Schembrihttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/schembri-adam.aspx, Paul Thompsonhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx, and Bodo Winterhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/winter-bodo.aspx.

Guest speakers will include Robbie Lovehttps://robbielove.org/ (Aston University), Stephanie Everthttp://www.stephanie-evert.de/ (FAU Erlangen), Alexander Piperskihttps://www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/person/alexander-piperski/ (FAU Erlangen) Sinclair lecture As every year, the annual Sinclair Lecture will take place during the Summer School. This year, the Lecture will be delivered on Monday 11 September by our very own Susan Hunstonhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/hunston-susan.aspx. The Sinclair lecture will be an in-person event.

Registration will open shortly via our webpage https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/event...

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See you there!