UCREL Corpus Research Seminar, MONDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2010, 3-4 pm
Title: Trust the Text - a statement of the obvious or a true insight?
Presenter: Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Abstract:
In this talk I will present some extracts from a new book I have co-authored with Andrew Hardie, Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. I will focus upon a major re-evaluation of the neo-Firthian school of linguistics presented in the book, with a particular accent upon the work of John Sinclair. In doing so, I will seek to assess the contribution of Sinclair’s ideas to linguistics, as well as considering to what extent the ideas he puts forward, most notably collocation, are operationalisable.
[It's a pity that I won't be attend as I am teaching in the afternoon. But I think the PPT will be made available at CRG website after the talk.]
Title: Trust the Text - a statement of the obvious or a true insight?
Presenter: Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Abstract:
In this talk I will present some extracts from a new book I have co-authored with Andrew Hardie, Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice. I will focus upon a major re-evaluation of the neo-Firthian school of linguistics presented in the book, with a particular accent upon the work of John Sinclair. In doing so, I will seek to assess the contribution of Sinclair’s ideas to linguistics, as well as considering to what extent the ideas he puts forward, most notably collocation, are operationalisable.
[It's a pity that I won't be attend as I am teaching in the afternoon. But I think the PPT will be made available at CRG website after the talk.]