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 ([email protected]) - 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.
  • 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.
  • 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


Free corpus stylistics resources for PALA members: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.