Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature

Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN.

Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th May 2006

This was one of a series of Advanced Workshops organised by the AHRC ICT Methods Network.

Information about the workshop

• Final timetable
• Public workshop webpages on the AHDS website

Reading

• Encyclopedia article on Corpus Stylistics
• Background reading on searching and concordancing in corpora

Workshop exercises

• Practical exercises sheet one, also in PDF
• Practical exercises sheet two, also in PDF
• Practical sheet three

Presentations

• Martin Wynne's introductory slides
• Jonathan Culpeper's presentation
• Michaela Mahlberg's presentation

Online resources

1. Sara registration
2. Sara exercises
3. VIEW - Variation in English Words and Phrases:
4. PIE - Phrases in English
5. OXLIP - online resources in the Oxford Libraries
6. LION - Literature Online
7. EEBO - Early English Books Online
8. ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online
9. OEC - Oxford English Corpus (access limited - ask for a password)
10. Xaira English grammar exercises
11. Cobuild online
12. Birmingham 2005 workshop webpages
13. EUROCALL 2003 workshop webpages

Information about resources

• The Nameless Shakespeare
• Shakespeare First Folio filenames
• Dickens filenames

Supporting organisations

This event will bring together people and expertise from several key national and international organisations, namely:

• Arts and Humanities Data Service
• AHRC ICT Methods Network
• Oxford Text Archive
• Poetics and Linguistics Association

One of the aims of this workshop is to attempt to join up these various infrastructures, organisations and associations.

These will be the founding event for 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 May 17th, 2006