Corpus Linguistics & Digital Humanities Conference
July 14th, 2017
Last year, Chemnitz and Dresden linguists joined forces and presented their research colloquium together for the 1st time in Heizhaus. This year, we open our discussions for all BA/MA and PhD students in the wider area who use digital linguistics and humanities methodologies in the widest sense.
This year the Conference will be preceded by a Research Methods Workshop for all MA and PhD students sponsered by the AvH. Two African Humboldt scholars will attend and support young scholars. Subject specialists from South African and Italian partner research groups will comment on projects via skype:
Samuel Atechi 
Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju 
Bertus van Rooy 
Marina Bondi
We encourage not only big data projects, but any modern research methodology from a simple on-line questionnaire to a complex eye-tracking experiment, from a qualitative comparison of group-specific usage in twitter to a quantitative comparison of newspapers, from a key-word-in-context analysis of academic writing patterns to a multivariate sociophonetic study using PRAAT.
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The conference will provide a forum for discussion on “digital” methodologies in a wide sense, as indicated in this short exposé. We encourage students from non-linguistic disciplines in particular to use corpus linguistic and digital humanities methodologies to pursue their own research areas from neighbouring disciplines, like political science, economics, literature and psychology. Conference languages are English and German.
The aim of this intensive conference is to allow presenters to develop their ideas openly, so that their peers, other students and a few invited friendly experts, will advise them how to finish their projects successfully and to inspire non-presenters to follow their methodological model and to use modern technologies to answer old questions with new data? This forum is also the appropriate place for “dress rehearsals” for bigger conferences.
If you would like to participate, send a 200-300 word abstract (in English or German) to Josef Schmied by July 1st (acceptance by July 5th). Usually, we would like to have 15-minute presentations with equally long discussions, but we are open; we also welcome conference posters and strongly encourage open discussions in the tea/coffee breaks and over the buffet lunch. There is no conference fee, but you have to bring your enthusiasm for discussion and your openness to learn from everybody in a conducive intercultural atmosphere, we hope.
Go for it – it is good for you.
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Venue |
Registration | accommodation City Hostel |
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Programme
| Friday, 14 July, Altes Heizhaus |
| 09:15 |
Welcome: Josef Schmied |
| 09:30 |
Focus on English in Africa |
| Samuel Atechi (Yaoundé, Cameroon / AvH): Anglophone and Francophone Cameroon English Pronunciation |
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| Jacinta Edusei (Chemnitz / Ghana): Hedging by Advanced L2 Users of English: ICE-Gh_AcW and ICE-GB_AcW in Comparison |
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| Gabriela Cosmina Djele Tchokouako (Chemnitz): Can Cameroonian Master Students Do CARS? |
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| 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 |
Learning Academic English Federica Modafferi (Chemnitz): Thinh Le (Chemnitz / Christchurch, NZ / Vietnam): Magda Rogozinska (Chemnitz): |
| 13:00 | Vietnamese Buffet |
| 14:00 |
Media Analyses Josef Schmied (Chemnitz) Isabelle van der Bom (Chemnitz) Mindy Krull (Chemnitz) |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 |
"Cool" Methods for Chemnitz MA Theses Shirin Amiri (Chemnitz): Anne Klante (Chemnitz): Nastaran Harati (Chemnitz): Anna Paul (Chemnitz): Liu Zijing (Chemnitz): |
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17:45 |
Roundtable Discussion Chair: Jacinta Edusei / Josef Schmied Italy (Federica Modafferi), |
| 18:30 |
Closing Remarks: Syrian Buffet |