All day, Tuesday 15 July 2014 - Friday 18 July 2014
Place: Lancaster University, Lancaster.
This free-to-attend summer school takes place at Lancaster University, under the aegis of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), an ESRC research centre bringing a new method in the study of language – the corpus approach – to a range of social sciences. CASS is investigating the use and manipulation of language in society in a host of areas of pressing concern, including climate change, hate crime and education. A crucial part of the CASS remit is to provide researchers across the social sciences with the skills needed to apply the tools and techniques of corpus linguistics to the research questions that matter in their own discipline.
This event is aimed at junior social scientists – especially PhD students and postdoctoral researchers – in any of the social science disciplines. The programme consists of a series of intensive two-hour sessions, some involving practical work, others more discussion-oriented.
Topics include:
- Introduction to corpus linguistics;
- Corpus tools and techniques;
- Collecting corpus data;
- Foundational techniques for social science data – keywords and collocation;
- Understanding statistics for corpus analysis;
- Discourse analysis for the social sciences;
- Semantic annotation and key domains;
- Corpus-based approaches to metaphor in discourse;
- Pragmatics, politeness and impoliteness in the corpus.
The CASS Summer School is free to attend, but registration in advance is compulsory, as places are limited. The deadline for registrations is Sunday 8th June 2014. The application form is available on the event website. Further information, including the programme, is available on the event website too.