News Back to 'Centre for Corpus Research' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed CLiC on tour in China DescriptionIn June Professor Michaela Mahlberg, who has been leading the CLiC project, will give a keynote at the 4th Corpus Linguistics in China Conference and then speak at Beihang University (Beijing) and Southwest University (Chongqing).Date:25/05/2018 CCR at ICAME 39 in Tampere, Finland DescriptionSeveral members of the Centre for Corpus Research will be presenting their most recent work.Date:17/05/2018 University of Birmingham's CLiC web app featured in Babel – The Language Magazine DescriptionRead more for details on the CLiC article in Babel and an announcement of a Digital Reading Competition.Date:11/05/2018 The fuzzy boundaries of language and literature DescriptionProfessor Michaela Mahlberg will be giving a plenary at CILC this week.Date:10/05/2018 Dickens, wooden legs and the Dickensian cyberspace DescriptionIn this post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, Emma Curry demonstrates how different materials across the 'Dickensian Cyberspace' can be cross-referenced to inform research – with a case study of Dickensian wooden legs.Date:12/04/2018 Revising Frankenstein with CLiC Dickens DescriptionIn the run-up to the GCSE English exams, teacher Beth Kemp provides an example on the of how the CLiC web app can aid revision. Read her case study of Frankenstein on the CLiC Dickens Blog.Date:05/04/2018 Wicked witches and evil queens: why children's books need more female villains DescriptionIn their Conversation article, Dr Anna Cermakova and Prof Michaela Mahlberg write about gender imbalance in children's literature – with examples from the ChiLit corpus.Date:28/03/2018 What's in a Word: Exam-ready with CLiC Description"With less than fifty days until the Literature exams, this exciting new approach could not have fallen into teachers' hands at a better time!" In her guest post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, teacher Katherine Howard (Brockington College, South Leicestershire) writes about using the CLiC web app for GCSE English revision with a case study of 'A Christmas Carol'.Date:28/03/2018 CLiC web app listed as a digital literary stylistics resource on the SIG_DLS Blog DescriptionThe CLiC web app has been featured as a resource by the Digital Literary Stylistics Special Interest Group at the University of Basel's Digital Humanities Lab. Check out the guest post introducing CLiC on the accompanying SIG_DLS (Doing Digital Literary Stylistics) Blog.Date:28/03/2018 Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar DescriptionDr Nicholas Groom, Professor Susan Hunston and Dr Florent Perek will be participating in the Colloquium 'Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar' at AAAL 2018, Chicago, Sunday 25 March 2018.Date:21/03/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 95 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next