Programme CLS8: Voices from Below. Corpus Linguistics and Social Media

[Sylvia Jaworska]

Corpus Linguistics in the South #8: Voices from Below. Corpus
Linguistics and Social Media.
University of Reading, Saturday, 15 November 2014

****Programme****

9:30 Arrival, registration, coffee/tea
10-10:45 Dawn Knight (Newcastle) The ‘spokenness’ of e-language
10:45-11:30 Daniel Hunt (Queen Mary, London) Eating disorder voices:
Supportive and empowering discourses in an online anorexia support group
11:30-12:15 Amanda Potts (Lancaster) ‘Love you guys (no homo)’: How
gamers and fans play with sexuality, gender and Minecraft on YouTube
12:15-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:15 Amy Aisha Brown (Open University) Analysing the discourses of
English in Japan through a corpus-based discourse analysis of Japanese
tweets: A case study
2:15-3:00 Alison Sealey (Lancaster), Chris Pak (Lancaster), Alice Power
(Birmingham) The Discursive Representation of Animals in the Twittersphere
3:00-3:45 Rachelle Vessey (Newcastle) Corpus linguistics, Twitter, and
superdiversity
3:45-4:15 COFFEE
4:15-5:00 Yin Yin Lu (Oxford) Hashtags on Twitter: The Linguistics of a
Sociotechnical Phenomenon
5:00-5:45 Diana Maynard (Sheffield) Are we really interested in climate
change?
5:45-6 CLOSE
(Discussion and further events)

Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Palmer Building room
103. For directions and maps see:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx

If you would like to attend, please email Sylvia at
***@reading.ac.uk.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served
basis. Registration will close Friday, 31 October 2014.

There will be a buffet lunch including vegetarian options. If you have
any specific dietary requirements, please state in your registration email.

Best wishes

Sylvia
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Dr Sylvia Jaworska
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading RG6 6AA
UK

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