The course syllabus of Sino-UK School of Corpus Linguistics 2014

Chair of the Academic Committee of the School

Late Geoffrey N. Leech

Members of the Academic Committee of the School

Yueguo Gu, Chu-Rren Huang, Tony McEnery, and Elena Semino

Chair of the Organising Committee

Kaibao Hu

School coordinator (local organisation)

Fengchao Zhen (gavinzhen@sjtu.edu.cn)

School coordinator (course design)

Jiajin Xu (xujiajin@bfsu.edu.cn)

Time

Speakers

Lecture topics

Time

Hand-on sessions

09.00-09.50

Elena Semino

Corpus methods and metaphor in health communication

14.00-14.50

Corpus-based stylistics

10.00-10.50

Vaclav Brezina

Statistics in corpus linguistics

15.00-15.50

Building your own corpus

11.00-11.50

Dana Gablasova

Corpus linguistics and second language acquisition

16.00-16.50

Word lists for linguistic research and L2 pedagogy

Time

Speaker

Lecture topics

Time

Speakers

Hands-on sessions

08.30-11.30

Yueguo Gu

Introduction to multimodal corpus linguistics  and case studies

14.00-17.00

Yueguo Gu

And Yongwei Zhang

Using ELAN to transcribe and annotate multi-modal data

Time

Speaker

Lecture topic

Time

Lecture topic

08.30-12.00

Kaibao Hu

Corpus based translation studies: A historical and methodological survey and case studies (1)

14.00-17.00

Corpus based translation studies: A historical and methodological survey and case studies (2)

Time

Speaker

Topics

08.30-11.30

Xunfeng Xu

Development of Corpus Resources and Sharing at PolyU: 15 Years of Experience

1) PolyU Language Bank

2) Corpora of English for Specific Professions

3) Corpus of Spoken English for Healthcare Communication

14.00-17.00

Chu-Ren Huang

Chinese Corpus Linguistics:  A 25 year review

1. Corpora and other language resources: a brief survey

2. From segmentation to WordSketch: how to process and extract grammatical information from Chinese corpora

3. From Lexical Semantic Relation to Ontology: the conceptual underpinning of corpus linguistics