New Trends in Corpus Linguistics for Language Teaching and Translation Studies

In Honour Of John Sinclair

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME 1. General plenary sessions tackling theoretical issues in Corpus Linguistics. 2. Parallel talks and discussions focusing on relevant aspects of corpus-based work on language teaching and translation studies. 3. Parallel hands-on sessions (workshops) looking into practical aspects of corpus-based applications and software demonstration. 4. Final panel discussion chaired by eminent scholar with the contribution of guest speakers. 5. Presentation of research projects by participants. CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Elena Tognini-Bonelli (University of Siena) Mona Baker (University of Manchester) Anthony Baldry (University of Messina) Claudio Bendazzoli (University of Bologna) Sabine Braun (University of Surrey) José María Bravo Gozalo (University of Valladolid) Daan Broeder (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Angela Chambers (University of Limerick) Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) Stig Johansson (University of Oslo) Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University) Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd.) Saturnino Luz (Trinity College Dublin) Pascual Pérez Paredes (University of Murcia) Paul Rayson (University of Lancaster) Mariachiara Russo (University of Bologna) Annalisa Sandrelli (University of Bologna) Federico Zanettin (University of Perugia) Call for Papers We welcome papers focusing on research projects in the field of Corpus Linguistics, especially those concerned with innovative uses of data-driven studies and leading-edge technologies for language teaching and translation studies. Thus, we invite submissions for research papers (of approximately 20 minutes) and poster presentations. Seminar language will be English but presentation of research may be in English, Spanish or Catalan. Abstracts should be 300 words maximum. Full CFP (PDF) can be downloaded here [url=http://www.ugr.es/local/newtrends/callpapers.php]http://www.ugr.es/local/newtrends/callpapers.php[/url] PUBLICATION We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Translation and the Language Forum have invited us to publish a selection of papers in two edited volumes: one for Translation Studies and one for Language Teaching.