PALA Corpus Stylistics SIG
Welcome to the home page of the PALA Corpus Stylistics Special Interest Group.
This group is interested in promoting and exploring the possibilities for the use of language corpora and corpus linguistic techniques in the analysis of the language of literature.
There is an email discussion list (corpus-style@jiscmail.ac.uk) - go to the jiscmail web page to join. Everyone is welcome.
The following workshops have been organised by the group, under the banner of 'Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature':
- A colloquium at the Corpus Linguistics 2009 conference in Liverpool - Corpus Linguistics and Literature and call for papers (deadline now expired).
- A pre-conference workshop at the annual PALA conference in Kansai Gaidai on the 29th and 30th July 2007. The invited speakers included Geoffrey Leech, Lisa-Lena Opas-Hänninen, Mick Short and Martin Wynne. More details can be found on the conference website
- A symposium at the Corpus Linguistics 2007 Conference at the University of Birmingham, organised by Ylva Berglund, with papers from Beatrix Busse, Michaela Mahlberg and Bettina Fischer-Starcke.
- Pre-conference workshop at Joensuu, July 2006
- AHRC Methods Network workshop in Oxford, May 2006
- Pre-conference symposium in Birmingham, July 2005
Further exercises are also available in the webpages from a workshop held at the Eurocall conference in Limerick in 2003 - Eurocall 2003 workshop.
Free corpus stylistics resources online
- Encyclopedia article on Corpus Stylistics
- An introduction to searching and concordancing in corpora
- A corpus stylistics bibliography (2006)
Contributions and suggestions to add items to this list, and to update the bibliography, are welcome.
Please contact martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk with any suggestions, news or queries, or just to express your interest in being involved.