Conference: Corpus Linguistics and Historical Corpora

Brendan Dooley and Alessio Assonitis will be speaking at the giornata di studi entitled Corpus Linguistics and Historical Corpora on Tuesday, 9 April 2013 (Stanza 20, II Piano, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali – Università degli studi di Firenze, Via S. Reparata, 93): 

Program:

Greetings (9:45)

Dr. Andrew Hardie (University of Lancaster): Annotation and analysis of Early Modern corpus data (10:00)

Coffee break (11:15)

Prof. Brendan Dooley (University of Cork): Early Modern Journalistic Narrative in a cross cultural perspective: Thoughts and Perspectives (11:30)

Prof. Marina Dossena (University of Bergamo): The study of Late Modern English correspondence: problems and perspectives (12:00)

Prof. Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Changing voices in abstract writing:a micro-diachronic perspective (12:30)

Dr. Alessio Assonitis (Director of the Medici Archive Project, Florence): Circa four million letters...: researching people, news, and language in the Medici Archive Project's digital platform (14:30)

Prof. Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence): Corpora and historical pragmatics: a corpus based research into aspects of historical pragmatics in early modern news (15:00)

Prof. Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (University of Florence): Presentation of Corpus Linguistics, coauthored by Andrew Hardie and Tony McEnery, Cambridge University Press (15:30)