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 | |
| 10:00 | Registration, coffee |
| 10:30 | Welcome and introductions |
| 10:45 | Lecture 1: Corpus linguistics and the language of literature - some introductory remarks, Ylva Berglund and Martin Wynne |
| 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:45 | Practical 1: Electronic texts and text corpora - warm-up exercises |
| 12:45 | Feedback on Practical 1 |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Lecture 2: A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays - an immodest proposal, Jonathan Culpeper |
| 15:00 | Practical 2: Shakespeare exercises |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Practical 2 continued |
| 16:30 | Feedback on Practical 2 |
| 16:45 | Feedback on day and discussion |
| 17:15 | end |
Informal gathering in the Royal Oak on Woodstock Road from 6pm.
Day two: Thursday 18th May 2006 | |
| 09:30 | Coffee |
| 10:00 | Lecture 3: Corpus stylistics - methodology, theory and patterns in literary texts Michaela Mahlberg |
| 11:00 | Practical 3: Using corpus linguistic techniques to study literature |
| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | Practical 3 continued |
| 12:45 | Feedback on practical 3 |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Lecture 4: Collocations, corpora and criticism, Bill Louw |
| 15:00 | Practical 4: Finding and analysing collocations |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Practical 4 continued |
| 16:15 | Feedback on practical 4 |
| 16:30 | Round-up and discussion |
| 17:00 | End of workshop |