Events In 'CCR events' EventsSinclair open lecture series Back to 'Centre for Corpus Research' The Centre for Corpus Research organises research events such as conferences and seminars, and it also runs workshops and training events. We are proud to offer a series of events throughout the academic year including the annual John Sinclair Lecture. This year’s Sinclair Lecture was given by Susan Hunston on 11th September 2023. Her lecture was entitled ‘From Pattern to System: an exploration in lexical grammar'. Upcoming events New events will appear here shortly Past events 2024 15th July - Applying Corpus Linguistics: impacts of corpus research in a minoritised language context15th-18th July - Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2024 2023 11th September - From Pattern to System: an exploration in lexical grammar11th-14th September - Corpus Linguistics Summer School 202311th-14th September - Want to learn more about RC21?4th July - Computer assisted concordance reading 2022 11th-15th July - Birmingham Statistics for Linguists Summer School 20224th July - The Sinclair Lecture 2022: Professor Monika Bednarek, University of Sydney 2021 8th July - The Sinclair Lecture 2021: Professor Dagmar Divjak8th July - Linguistics for MFL teachers: Teachers and PGCE students' online CPD event9th June - Corpus Linguistics with WordSmith 8: An interview and webinar with Mike Scott 2020 4th December - Heroes Story Writing Competition29th April - Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research15th January - The Language of Julia Donaldson: Rhetoric, style and cognition 2019 4th December - Introduction to Regular Expressions27th November - Introduction to AntConc20th November - Introduction to Sketch Engine24th June - Look Closer: Insight and Impact in Corpus Analysis of Discourse24th-28th June - Corpus Linguistics Summer School 201917th-21st June - Birmingham Statistics for Linguists Summer School 201930th May - Heroes, heroines and gender inequality in children's fiction5th April - Pretty girls & brave boys. Fiction and the real world in children's literature 2018 10th December - The Future of Language Change4th December - "Poor little snowflake, are you 'grossly' offended?": Quantifying the communicative styles of Twitter trolling28th November - Data visualisation with R27th November - Deception Detection by Linguistic Means21st November - Sketch Engine – an online corpus tool20th November - Construction Grammar and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis14th November - Advanced searches with regular expressions13th November - Gendered social structure in 19th century children's literature: A corpus linguistic approach7th November - AntConc – exploring your own corpus30th October - Language full of character: computational stylistics, authorship and genre30th-31st July - Sign CAFÉ 16th July - CLiC for 19th century scholars25th June - The Hermeneutic Cyborg25th-29th June - Corpus Linguistics Summer School 201815th June - Inequality Discourses in the Media symposium4th-8th June - Birmingham Statistics for Linguists Summer School28th March - Corpus stylistics workshop for Year 8 pupils15th March - Introduction to Antconc8th March - Regular Expression for Corpus Linguistic Analysis6th March - Does scene description guide perception? Investigating construal in language with eye-tracking2nd March - Introducing AntConc 3.5: A response to some common issues and challenges in corpus analyses20th February - Frequency is overrated: Using text dispersion to measure word importance 2017 1st December - CLiC Dickens Day1st December - CLiC Dickens Evening22nd November - CLiC workshop for CARE visitors15th November - Introduction to the new CLiC release: a corpus tool for literary texts8th November - Introduction to CQPWeb25th October - Introduction to Sketch Engine18th October - Introduction to AntConc and to corpus development27th July - Sinclair Lecture 201724th-28th July - Corpus Linguistics Conference 201716th June - Corpus stylistics for the English classroom22nd March - Using corpus tools to analyse characterisation in literary texts: the example of Dickens8th March - Laurence Anthony's AntTools27th February - Why do metaphors work? The power of metaphor in everyday communication22nd February - Getting to grips with BNCweb21st February - More different than you might think: variation in student writing as revealed by a new MDA analysis of BAWE7th February - Modelling constructional change with distributional semantics31st January - A corpus stylistic approach to the sermons of John Donne and his contemporaries24th January - The discursive construction of inequality: a corpus approach16th January - Empirical insights into Cohesion. Contrasting English and German across Modes10th January - Rethinking words and patterns and applying this to a local grammar of evaluative meaning 2016 30th November - Discourse and dialogue: Annotating and aggregating corpus data28th November - The uses and limitations of current sign language corpora16th November - Introduction to Sketch Engine9th November - Introduction to AntConc4th November - A corpus-based perspective on the US presidential election through a FireAnt analysis of candidates' social network interactions2nd November - Introduction to Web as Corpus26th October - Speech presentation in 19th century literature: A hands-on approach3rd October - Exploring frequency and textual units20th June - Sinclair Lecture 201620th-24th June - Corpus Linguistics Summer School 20164th June - Hot Off The Press17th May - Can you shut off the first language in a second language?31st March - Text-patterning in legal texts17th February - Implications and applications of dependency-based phraseology extraction11th February - Launching the Corpus Statistics Group26th January - Some possibilities for data-driven analysis of multimodal narratives 2015 10th December - Simple visualisations of corpus data using R Studio26th November - Analyse your own corpus with AntConc16th November - Using corpus linguistic methods in the classroom: A one-day workshop for A-level teachers12th November - Advanced CLiC - User-defined annotation29th October - Using CLiC to study literature2nd September - Sinclair Lecture and Seminar 201518th March - Centre for Corpus Research special seminar 2014 8th May - Sinclair Lecture 2014 and CfBT Education Trust Open Lecture 2013 9th May - Sinclair Lecture 2013 2012 9th May - Sinclair Lecture 2012 2011 20th-22nd July - Centre for Corpus Research, Birmingham: CL 201119th July - Python programming language workshop11th July - CARE and the Centre for Corpus Research joint event