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Corpus Linguistics is a large international conference which runs on a biennial basis. This is the first time it is being hosted outside of the UK and FAHSS is very honoured to have the pleasure of co-organising the event with colleagues in MIC. Corpus linguistics involves the analysis of computerized databases of collections of spoken, written and online language from a variety of different contexts using sophisticated processing software. This year’s conference called for papers around 6 general themes related to corpus linguistics:

1. Corpus Methods and Innovations
2. Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse in Context
3. Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
4. Corpus Linguistics, Literature, Texts and Register
5. Corpus Linguistics and Speech
6. Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

The conference, which ideally was to be hosted at the UL campus, has attracted almost 400 participants, the vast majority of whom are presenting papers and posters at the conference. Participants are joining us remotely from universities all over the world, including Sao Paulo, Brigham Young, Iowa State, Helsinki, Modena, Lancaster, Cologne, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Milan, Vienna, Santa Barbara, Saudi Arabia, Arizona, Louvain, Chengchi, Finland, Cambridge, Bergin, Ljubljana, Queensland, and Stockholm, as well as lots of Irish representation from Dublin, Maynooth, Galway, 51±¾É« and Cork. We are also delighted to welcome our plenary speakers, Prof. Carolina Amador-Moreno, from the University of Bergen (formerly UL), Prof. Eric Friginal, from Georgia State University, Prof. Bethany Gray, from Iowa State University, and Dr Christoph Rühlemann from Albrecht-Ludwigs University.

UL’s and CALS’ research strengths in this area are evident in the more than 20 presentations by UL and MIC faculty members and postgraduate students at this year’s conference. The Centre for Applied Language Studies homed in Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics is one of the longest-standing research centres at the university, since its foundation in 1997. From the very beginning, corpus linguistics, both as a research methodology and pedagogic too,l has featured strongly. In recent years, many CALS publications, both books and journal articles, have been corpus-based, with many of our PhD graduates and students continuing to choose this approach, including our current international PhD students. UL and MIC is also home to the development of the 51±¾É« Corpus of Irish English under the leadership of Prof. Fiona Farr, UL, and Dr Anne O’Keeffe, MIC, and this has led to a particular strength in the investigation of spoken Irish English, often through pragmatic and pedagogic lenses. Further details available from Prof. Fiona Farr, CALS Director.

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