The corpus ‘Australia 2015/2016’ includes all articles from major Australian newspapers published from August 2015 to July 2016 that include the key term ‘Australia’ or ‘Australian(s)’ in the title. Altogether, the corpus contains over 7 million tokens in almost 13,000 articles from 18 newspapers. The corpus thus reflects one year of printed media coverage of
Job opening: PhD student or Postdoctoral researcher in English Corpus Linguistics Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany The DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (SFB 1102, http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/) is pleased to invite applications for a PhD or post-doctoral position (65%) within the project “Information Density and Scientific Literacy in English: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives”. The
The Spanish association for corpus linguistics is holding the 9th annual international conference on corpus linguistics in Paris May 31-June 2 2017. https://cilc2017.sciencesconf.org/ As part of AELINCO’s on-going programme of research activities and annual conferences, the broad aim of the CILC conferences is to provide language researchers an opportunity to present and communicate their work
Linguists dissected over 100,000 words from their speeches. By Cara Giaimo And Sarah Laskow JULY 21, 2016 The Republican National Convention is entering its final night, but people can’t stop talking about the words in Melania Trump’s Monday evening speech—because she borrowed a significant amount of them from a 2008 speech by Michelle Obama. After
VocUM 2016 – Language under scrutiny: technology and corpora Call for Papers We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 3rd edition of VocUM, which will take place at the Carrefour des arts et des sciences of the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada) on November 17th and 18th, 2016. VocUM is