News Back to 'Centre for Corpus Research' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed Towards One Thousand Constructions: rethinking the learner's understanding of lexis and grammar DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston is giving a plenary talk at this year's Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC), which will take place on 18-21 July 2018 at the University of Cambridge.Date:11/07/2018 Trust management strategies in business communication DescriptionDr Matteo Fuoli invited to give a plenary talk at this summer's Association for Business Communication Regional Conference for Europe, Africa, and Middle East.Date:02/07/2018 The Hermeneutic Cyborg DescriptionProfessor Stefan Evert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) delivered the 2018 Sinclair Lecture.Date:26/06/2018 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 Displaying 1 to 10 of 97 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next