A serendipitous journey: symposium in honour of Alan Partington
A celebration of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) and the work of Alan Partington. Talks by Tony McEnery, Paul Baker, Alison Duguid, Alan Partington. Presentation of contributions to the Special issue of JCaDs in honour of Alan Partington by Eugenia Diegoli and Daniele Polizzi.
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Date: 18 OCTOBER 2024 from 15:00 to 19:00
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Event location: Lecture room13 - Teaching Hub - via F. Corridoni, 20 - Campus di Forlì - In presence and online event
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Type: Events
PROGRAM
15:00 -15:10 Welcome (Silvia Bernardini – University of Bologna)
15:10-15:50 Alison Duguid (University of Siena): “Forced priming and delegitimisation”
15:50-16:30 Tony McEnery (Lancaster University): “A key but which lock? Some reflections on keywords”
16:30-17:10 Paul Baker (Lancaster University): “Sex differences and gendered discourses on a forum about anxiety”
17:10-17:20 Presentation of the Special issue of JCaDs in honour of Alan Partington (Anna Marchi – University of Bologna)
17:20-17:40 Eugenia Diegoli (University of Bologna): “‘Only idiots get vaccinated w’: A Corpus-Assisted analysis of laughter-text in Japanese online (anti-)vaccination discourses”
17:40-18:00 Daniele Polizzi (University of Bologna): “Evaluation in a cross-linguistic perspective: Investigating semantic prosody across English and German near-synonyms”
18:00-18:40 Alan Partington: “Reflections and suggestions on patterns and meanings and connections”