IVACS 2020: The 10th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference Mary Immaculate College Limerick, Ireland, June 25-26, 2020 |
Conference website | http://www.ivacs.mic.ul.ie |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ivacs2020 |
Submission deadline | January 27, 2020 |
Contact | ivacs.mic.ul.ie |
The IVACS 10th biennial conference celebrates 20 years of collaboration across the IVACS research network. Focusing on the theme of Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Approaches, Applications, it is intended to promote reflection on both the achievements and challenges in the field.
Submission Guidelines
Full papers will involve a 20-minute presentation, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Posters can present work in progress or summaries of completed studies, research projects or other innovations. Posters will be printed in portrait A0 size.
Abstracts will be 300 words (not including reference list, if any).
- Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 27th January, 2020
- Outcome of CfP: 7th February, 2020
Submission of abstracts: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ivacs2020
Conference Registration: Details to follow on IVACS website (ivacs.mic.ul.ie).
List of Topics
We are particularly interested in papers in but not limited to the following areas:
Strand 1 – Corpus Methods and Innovations: Innovations in Corpus Design, Analysis and Annotation Tools; Critical Reflections on Corpus Methods; Advances in Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Analysing Corpora; Innovations in Statistics for CL.
Strand 2 – Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse: Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis; Corpus Pragmatics; CL and Real-World Contexts (e.g. Media Discourse, Classroom Discourse; Workplace Discourse).
Strand 3 – Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics: Learner Corpus Research; CL and Second Language Acquisition; Data-Driven Learning; CL for Materials Development; CL and Teacher Education; CL and Lexicography.
Strand 4 – Corpus Linguistics, Literature, Texts and Register: CL and Register Studies; Corpus Stylistics; CL and Literary Linguistics; CL and Translation Studies; Forensic Linguistics.
Strand 5 – Corpus Linguistics and Speech: CL Speech Technology; CL and Multimodality; Spoken Corpora; Corpus Phonology.
Strand 6 – Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: CL and Language Change; Language Varieties and Variation; CL and Minority Language Studies.
Invited Speakers
- Carolina Amador-Moreno, University of Extremadura
- Bethany Gray, Iowa State University
- Christoph Rühlemann, Albrecht-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Venue
The conference will be held in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland (mic.ul.ie).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ivacs2020@gmail.com.