Corpora: Corpora and Conversation: A Symposium

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    CORPORA AND CONVERSATION:
    ASPECTS OF PRAGMATIC ANNOTATION IN SPOKEN CORPORA

    A Seminar Series, Spring 2000

    While recent years have seen a rise in the use of corpus evidence in spoken
    language studies, the use of such evidence remains controversial,
    particularly with reference to pragmatic and discoursal categories. In this
    series, we address a range of issues concerning corpus data and the
    analysis of the spoken language, focussing on such topics as theoretical
    implications of discoursal and pragmatic annotation; discoursal and
    pragmatic annotation in relation to the transcription and mark-up of spoken
    data, and the
    feasibility of corpus data in pragmatic and discoursal analyses of
    conversation and other forms of spoken language.

    Speakers:

    January 26
    Susan Mandala (Royal Holloway): Discourse Coding and Spoken Corpora: The
    State of the Field
            
    February 9
    Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Speakers, Hearers and Annotation - Why
    it's
    Difficult to do Pragmatics with Corpora

    February 23
    Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire) Discourse Prosody and
    Spoken Corpora

    March 8
    Jenny Thomas (University of Wales, Bangor) TBA

    March 22
    Bas Aarts and Gerald Nelson (Survey of English Usage, University College
    London) Annotation Systems

    Time: 4-6 pm
    Venue: Institute of English Studies, 3rd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street,
    London WC1E 7HU
    Enquiries: Institute of English Studies; Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8675; Fax: +44
    (0)20 7862 8672; email: ies@sas.ac.uk

    Organisers:
    Susan Mandala, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London;
    Bas Aarts, Survey of English Usage, University College London, University of
    London; Gerry Nelson, Survey of English Usage, University College London,
    University of London

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