[ecrea] Text-mining in the Digital Humanities: The Interface between Conceptual History, Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.

> Text-mining in the Digital Humanities: The 
> Interface between Conceptual History, Critical 
> Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.
> 13.05.10-14.05.10
> Lancaster University, UK
>
> The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop is to 
> explore the potential for collaboration between 
> researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis 
> (CDA), Corpus Linguistics (CL) and Conceptual 
> History (CH), the study of key socio-political 
> concepts in their historical context (see 
> http://www.concepta-net.org/conceptual_history).
>
> Recent studies by mainly Lancaster-based 
> researchers have suggested the methodological 
> synergy that can result from combining CDA and 
> corpus-linguistic approaches. Meanwhile, the 
> discourse-historical approach in CDA developed 
> by Ruth Wodak (Lancaster) overlaps with CH in 
> its study of the discursive construction of 
> collective identities that can themselves be 
> seen as concepts, each with their own history. 
> Finally, the development of increasingly 
> sophisticated software programs, such as 
> Lancaster's UCREL Semantic Analysis System, 
> opens up exciting new research possibilities for 
> mining the ever-increasing number of historical 
> texts available in digital form. The workshop 
> will provide a unique opportunity for 
> researchers in CH, CDA and CL to discover how 
> they might benefit from mutual collaboration. It 
> should also be of interest to anyone in the 
> Humanities and Social Sciences who works with 
> texts and/or deals with basic socio-political 
> concepts, including collective identities.
>
> Guest speakers will include Jan Ifversen (Head 
> of Institute for History and Area Studies, 
> Aarhus University), Hans-Erich Boedeker 
> (Max-Planck-Institut für 
> Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin), both from the 
> History of Political and Social Concepts Group, 
> and Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of 
> Economics and Business), who pioneered the use 
> of corpus-linguistic techniques in CDA. The 
> workshop will also include demonstrations of various software programs.
>
> Abstracts (200-300 words)
> We invite the submission of proposals for 
> 20-minute papers from scholars working in:
>
> ?         Conceptual History (including 
> historical semantics and metaphor history)
> ?         Critical Discourse Analysis (including 
> critical metaphor analysis and cognitive approaches)
> ?         Corpus Linguistics (including 
> historical text-mining and keyword extraction)
>
> Possible topic areas for papers include, but are not limited to:
>
> ?       Case studies in using historical corpora
> ?       Concepts, texts and discourses
> ?       Conceptual history vs historical semantics
> ?       Conceptual contestation / conceptual innovation
> ?       Critical metaphor analysis and cognitive approaches
> ?       Different national approaches
> ?       Identities as concepts
> ?       The importance of context(s)
> ?       Reconstructing semantic fields
> ?       The role of concepts in the discourse-historical approach
> ?       What corpus linguistics can and cannot do
> ?       What makes a key word key?
> Workshop fee
>
> Full delegate rate              £40
> Postgraduate Researchers        £20
> (The fees include lunches and morning and 
> afternoon refreshments on both days.)
>
> Important dates
>
> 26 March 2010 Deadline for abstracts, to be sent 
> to Prof. Anne Wichmann ((a.wichmann /at/ virgin.net))
> 1 April 2010    Notification of acceptance
> 23 April 2010  Deadline for registration and payment of conference fees.
>
> Further information (accommodation, travel etc) 
> will soon be available at http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/events/chcdacl2010/
>
> For queries in the meantime please contact one of the organisers.
>
> Organisers
>
> Neil Foxlee             (n.foxlee /at/ virgin.net) or (n.foxlee1 /at/ uclan.ac.uk)
> Anne Wichmann   (a.wichmann /at/ virgin.net) or (awichmann /at/ uclan.ac.uk)
> Paul Rayson             (p.rayson /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)
> Paul Baker              (j.p.baker /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)
> Dawn Archer             (dearcher /at/ uclan.ac.uk)
>
>
> Acknowledgments
>
> We are very grateful for the support of
>
> ?       Lancaster University, Institute for 
> Advanced Studies (IAS). http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias
>
> ?       University of Central Lancashire 
> (UCLan), Preston, UK. 
> http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/journalism_media_communication/english_linguistics/

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