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CORPUS APPROACHES TO THE LANGUAGE OF LITERATURE

There are still places available at the workshop in Oxford on May 17-18th 2006, organised by the Oxford Text Archive, the Arts and Humanities Data Service and the AHRC ICT Methods Network. There are also still places at the workshop at the PALA conference in Joensuu in Finland in July - see the foot of this message.

** Oxford Workshop - no registration fee! ** Call for participants Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN. Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th May 2006 http://www.ahds.ac.uk/litlangling/events/approaches/home.htm

** Joensuu Workshop ** Call for participants Pre-conference workshop at PALA 2006, Joensuu, Finland Tuesday 25th July 2006 http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/workshops.html

OXFORD WORKSHOP

'Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature' is a two-day workshop in Oxford on the 17th and 18th May 2006. This workshop is aimed at researchers and teachers in stylistics and literary studies who are interested in acquiring more expertise in methods of analysis using linguistic corpora, or sharing their experiences of work with corpora. No corpus or computational experience is required, but those with experience are very welcome. Invited speakers are Jonathon Culpeper (Lancaster University), Bill Louw (University of Zimbabwe) and Michaela Mahlberg (University of Liverpool). Full details and how to register are online at http://www.ahds.ac.uk/litlangling/events/approaches/home.htm. There is no registration fee for this event, and there are still places available.

The workshop will aim to exploit the potential for more widespread use of corpora in the study of literature. It will be an opportunity to disseminate and discuss examples of successful research which has shed new light on literary texts through the techniques of corpus linguistics. Participants will be armed with arguments, language resources, tools and methods to take back to their departments to train colleagues and to use in their research and teaching.

The workshop is one of a series of Advanced Workshops funded by the AHRC ICT Methods Network (http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/).

JOENSUU WORKSHOP

There will also be an opportunity to discuss these issues and do the hands-on practical work at a further one-day pre-conference workshop on Tuesday 25th July at the PALA annual conference in Joensuu. This workshop will be suitable both for people who come to the Oxford workshop and want to take the discussion further, and for newcomers. Invited speakers are Jonathan Culpeper and Michaela Mahlberg. Full details of this event are on the conference website at http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/workshops.html.

The PALA conference will be the most important stylistics conference worldwide in 2006. Workshop participants are expected to register for the ful conference, and there is an additional fee of 60 euros to register for the workshop (see http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/pala2006/).

For more details about either event, please contact the workshop email workshop@ota.ox.ac.uk.