Joensuu University, Finland
Tuesday 25th July 2006
This is a pre-conference workshop at the annual PALA conference. See the main conference website. The tutorial materials for this workshop were developed for one of a series of Advanced Workshops funded by the AHRC ICT Methods Network in the UK, and held at Oxford University Computing Services in May 2006.
The workshop will take place in rooms HS21 and HS22 in the Agora building at Joensuu University. Tea and coffee in the breaks and lunch will be provided, and are included in the registration fee.
Tuesday 25th July 2006 | |
| 09:00 | Registration, coffee |
| 09:30 | Welcome and introductory remarks, Martin Wynne |
| 09:45 | Practical 1: Electronic texts and text corpora - warm-up exercises on Jane Austen texts |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays - an immodest proposal, Jonathan Culpeper |
| 12:00 | Practical 2: Shakespeare exercises |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Corpus stylistics - methodology, theory and patterns in literary texts Michaela Mahlberg |
| 15:00 | Practical 3: Dickens exercises |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Practical 3 continued |
| 16:30 | Discussion |
| 17:00 | end |
Slides from the presentations will be posted here immediately after the workshop.
This workshop would not be possible without the direct and indirect support of the following organisations:
Workshop participants are encouraged to get involved with the PALA Corpus Stylistics Special Interest Group (SIG). Anyone interested in joining PALA and the Corpus Stylistics SIG, is welcome to contact Martin Wynne (martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk). A new mailing list has been set up for this group, corpus-style at jiscmail.ac.uk.
2006 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Oxford Text Archive.
Created on July 17th, 2006