Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature

Timetable

All sessions take place in the Isis room at Oxford University Computing Services. Lunch is served downstairs in the Turing Room.

Day one: Wednesday 17th May 2006

10:00Registration, coffee
10:30Welcome and introductions
10:45Lecture 1: Corpus linguistics and the language of literature - some introductory remarks, Ylva Berglund and Martin Wynne
11:15Coffee break
11:45Practical 1: Electronic texts and text corpora - warm-up exercises
12:45Feedback on Practical 1
13:00Lunch
14:00Lecture 2: A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays - an immodest proposal, Jonathan Culpeper
15:00Practical 2: Shakespeare exercises
15:30Coffee break
16:00Practical 2 continued
16:30Feedback on Practical 2
16:45Feedback on day and discussion
17:15end

Informal gathering in the Royal Oak on Woodstock Road from 6pm.





Day two: Thursday 18th May 2006

09:30Coffee
10:00Lecture 3: Corpus stylistics - methodology, theory and patterns in literary texts Michaela Mahlberg
11:00Practical 3: Using corpus linguistic techniques to study literature
11:30Coffee break
12:00Practical 3 continued
12:45Feedback on practical 3
13:00Lunch
14:00Lecture 4: Collocations, corpora and criticism, Bill Louw
15:00Practical 4: Finding and analysing collocations
15:30Coffee break
16:00Practical 4 continued
16:15Feedback on practical 4
16:30Round-up and discussion
17:00End of workshop