{"id":62,"date":"2022-11-16T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/corpusresearchgroup\/?page_id=62"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:48:44","slug":"info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/crg\/","title":{"rendered":"Aims and Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span class=\"stk-highlight\" style=\"color: #1a4548\"><em>Language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once<\/em> (Sinclair 1991: 100)<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"stk-highlight\" style=\"color: #1a4548\"><em>Every corpus that I\u2019ve had a chance to examine, however small, has taught me facts that I couldn\u2019t imagine finding out about in any other way<\/em>&nbsp; (Fillmore 1992: 35)<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"stk-highlight\" style=\"color: #1a4548\"><em>A single text on its own is quite insignificant: the effects of media power are cumulative, working through the repetition of particular ways of handling causality and agency, particular ways of positioning the reader<\/em> (Fairclough 1989: 54)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Edge Hill University Corpus Research Group (EHU CRG) was established in October 2021 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/person\/costas-gabrielatos\/staff\/\">Costas Gabrielatos<\/a>. It aims to be an interdisciplinary forum for academics and students who are (interested in) using corpora and corpus linguistic approaches. In particular, it aims at encouraging and facilitating the use of corpus approaches at Edge Hill University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EHU CRG is related to the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/lxgr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar<\/a>, and its website hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/crg\/docs\">Bibliography of Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As corpus linguistics is essentially a methodological approach which integrates quantitative and qualitative techniques, it can be employed by academics engaged in any type of research involving the analysis of naturally occurring or elicited language (e.g., Education, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Politics, Psychology, Sociology). Also, its computational and quantitative aspects make corpus linguistics relevant to academics working in Computing and Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings will have a variety of formats (presentations, demonstrations, workshops, discussions), and will focus on:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Corpus tools.<\/li>\n<li>Corpus compilation.<\/li>\n<li>Methodological issues (e.g. automated or manual analytical techniques, metrics).<\/li>\n<li>Theoretical underpinnings of corpus linguistics.<\/li>\n<li>Findings of completed or ongoing research projects (including PhD and MRes projects).<\/li>\n<li>Critical examination of published studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><strong>Meetings take place online via Microsoft Teams<\/strong>, as the online format enables a much larger number of academics and students from around the world to attend and contribute. Meetings will be <strong>1-2 hours <\/strong>depending on the type and number of speakers, and will allow ample time for discussion. Currently, the plan is to have four meetings per year (two per semester), but additional meetings can be arranged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to be informed of future events, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once (Sinclair 1991: 100). . Every corpus that I\u2019ve had a chance to examine, however small, has taught me facts that I couldn\u2019t imagine finding out about in any other way&nbsp; (Fillmore 1992: 35). . 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