Workshops and Seminars

Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature Programme

10.00	Registration, coffee
10.30	Welcome and introductions
10.45	Lecture 1: Corpus linguistics and the language of literature - some introductory remarks, Ylva Berglund and Martin Wynne
11.15	Coffee break
11.45	Practical 1: Electronic texts and text corpora - warm-up exercises
12.45	Feedback on Practical 1
13.00	Lunch
13.30	'In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus' - Mike Scott
14.00	Lecture 2: A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays - an immodest proposal, Jonathan Culpeper
15.00	Practical 2: Shakespeare exercises
15.30	Coffee break
16.00	Practical 2 continued
16.45	Feedback on day and discussion
17.15	End

9.30	Coffee
10.00	Lecture 3: Corpus stylistics - methodology, theory and patterns in literary texts Michaela Mahlberg
11.00	Practical 3: Using corpus linguistic techniques to study literature
11.30	Coffee break
12.00	Practical 3 continued
12.45	Feedback on Practical 3
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Lecture 4: Collocations, corpora and criticism, Bill Louw
15.00	Practical 4: Finding and analysing collocations
15.30	Coffee break
16.00	Practical 4 continued
16.30	Feedback on practical 4
16.45	Round-up and discussion
17.15	End