[Corpora-List] Birmingham Short Course: Corpora and Translation

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Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 17:17:57 MET DST

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    Short course: Corpora and Translation
    Decemebr 13-15, 2004

    Centre for Corpus Research
    School of Humanities
    University of Birmingham

    This 3-day workshop provides an intensive introduction to the
    use of corpora in the field of translation studies, focussing on the
    exploitation of monolingual and parallel (translation) corpora. In
    addition to learning about the application of corpus linguistics
    techniques to translation studies, participants will learn about the
    compilation, alignment, and investigation of parallel corpora in
    translation studies and will have the opportunity for hands-on practice
    using MonoConc, ParaConc, Multiconcord, Lookup and Vanilla Aligner. The
    format of the workshop will be a mix of lectures and practice sessions.

    Presenters: Michael Barlow, Dorothy Kenny and Pernilla Danielsson.

    Michael Barlow is Associate Professor of Applied Language
    Studies at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is the creator
    of the software programs MonoConc and ParaConc and has given
    presentations and workshops on corpus linguistics in a variety of
    different countries around the world.

    Dorothy Kenny is Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Language and
    Intercultural Studies at Dublin City
    University and a founder member of the Centre for Translation and
    Textual Studies. She is author of Lexis and Creativity: A Corpus-based
    Study (St. Jerome, 2001) and co-editor of Unity in Diversity: Current
    Trends in Translation Studies.

    Pernilla Danielsson teaches postgraduate modules on Research methods in
    Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham and is Academic
    Director of the Centre for Corpus Research. She has written many
    articles on corpus analysis and is the co-creator of Vanilla Aligner.

    For more information about the course and how to register, please see
            www.corpus.bham.ac.uk/courses/corptrans.htm
             

    -- 
Dr Pernilla Danielsson

    Centre for Corpus Research
Department of English/school of Humanities
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom

    Tel: +44 (0)121 414 56 88
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 60 53
email: pernilla@ccl.bham.ac.uk

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