THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25 Pre Conference Workshops
3:00 – 5:00 Room 210 Liberal Arts Building (18)	Corpus Tools Brainstorming Session Led by Laurence Anthony, Waseda University A brainstorming session for researchers and general users of corpus tools to come and hear a short review of current tools, and then openly discuss what features, functions, and directions future corpus tools should include. The session will not be a forum to voice criticisms of current tools. Rather, it would be an informal, brainstorming session where non-developers could voice what they would like tools to do.
5:15 – 7:30 Room 210 Liberal Arts Building (18)	Introduction to Graphics with R Led by Geoffrey LaFlair, Northern Arizona University & Jesse Egbert, Brigham Young University Participants will learn how to create publication-quality graphs with the ggplot2 package in R. ggplot2 is a powerful tool for building and customizing elegant graphics. We will introduce how to: load data into R, prepare data for graphing, and create graphs in color and grayscale (e.g., barcharts, histograms, boxplots, line graphs, and scatterplots). During the workshop participants will get hands-on experience creating and polishing basic graphs. No knowledge of R or ggplot2 is required. PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP IF YOU CAN. You can also bring some data in Excel if you want to.
	FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
8:00 - 8:30	Registration and program pick up Liberal Arts Building (#18 on the NAU map)
8:30 - 9:00
	Methods for Corpus Analysis Liberal Arts Room 208	Working with Non Western Languages Liberal Arts Room 306	Specialized Written Registers Liberal Arts Room 322
9:00 - 9:30	Internal Representativeness and Specialized Corpora: The Influence of Topic on the Stability of Linguistic Findings in a Disciplinary Writing Corpus Bethany Gray, Jesse Egbert & Manman Qian Iowa State University & Brigham Young U	No paper in this time slot	Telling by Omission: Hedging and Calibration in Academic Recommendation Letters Mohammed Albakry Middle Tennessee State University & University of Connecticut
9:30 - 10:00	The most underused method in corpus linguistics: Multi level and mixed effects models Stefan Th. Gries University of California, Santa Barbara	AntPConc: A Freeware Multi-Platform Parallel Concordancer Laurence Anthony Waseda University	Semantic and lexical analyses of K-12 parental documents for refugees: A comparative corpus study Francisco Javier Barrón Serrano, Cynthia M. Murphy, Jennifer Roberts & Eric Friginal Georgia State University
10:00 - 10:30	Quantitative Measures for Characterizing Predictability and Variability in Discontinuous Lexical Frames Bethany Gray, Douglas Biber, & Joe Geluso Iowa State & Northern Arizona University	A Corpus-driven Study: Chinese Lexical Frames in Conversation and Academic Prose Xiaoying Wang & Yunhua Qu Zhejiang University	Evidence of rewriting: food bundles in different text types Amanda C. Murphy Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
10:30 - 11:00	Break
	Vocabulary Lists Liberal Arts Room 208	L2 Writing and Phraseology Liberal Arts Room 306	Comparing Corpus Findings and Pedagogy Liberal Arts Room 322
11:00 - 11:30	Is the core vocabulary stable across British and American English? American English supplement to The New General Service List Dana Gablasova & Vaclav Brezina Lancaster University	Lexical Bundles in Brazilian Students’ academic writing teaching Patricia Bértoli Rio de Janeiro State University	A Comparison of Recent Corpus-Derived Phraseological Lists for Pedagogy David Oakey Iowa State University
11:30 - 12:00	Determining the Technical Vocabulary of Academic English: A Corpus-Based Analysis Dee Gardner & Mark Davies Brigham Young University	Exemplification and reformulation in learner writing at different levels of proficiency Alfredo Urzúa San Diego State University	‘that’: usage and pedagogy Elaine W. Vine Victoria University of Wellington
12:00 - 12:30	Methodology for a Reliable Academic Vocabulary List Seonmin Park Northern Arizona University	An integrated approach to phraseology in EFL learner writing Magali Paquot FNRS Université catholique de Louvain	Revisiting the Dolch Word Lists: Corpus-Influenced Examination & Revision Brandy C. Judkins Georgia State University
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
	Discourse Particles Liberal Arts Room 208	Stance and Hedging Liberal Arts Room 306	Legal Language Liberal Arts Room 322
2:00 - 2:30	New functions of Japanese masculine sentence-final particles: a corpus study Natalia Konstantinovskaia UCLA	Stance Features within Stand-Alone Literature Reviews and Research Articles: An Interdisciplinary Register Analysis Heidi Wright Northern Arizona University	Hedging in Court: A Corpus-based Study of Gender Effects on Testimony Language Vanessa Conte Herse California State University, Long Beach
2:30 - 3:00	Interpreting discourse marker sequencing constraints: The case of English so Christian Koops & Arne Lohmann University of New Mexico & University of Vienna	Epistemic markers in the Trinity-Lancaster spoken learner corpus: Effect of L1 background and task Vaclav Brezina & Dana Gablasova Lancaster University	A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the legal arena: movie vs. real trials Pierfranca Forchini Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano
3:00 - 3:30	Poster Session I
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 5:00 Liberal Arts Room 120	Plenary by Eric Friginal, Georgia State University Exploring cross-talk in aviation training and outsourced call center interactions This presentation examines linguistic distributions from specialized corpora of English cross-cultural aviation training transcripts with Colombian pilot-trainees and outsourced call center interactions with customer service representatives based in the Philippines and India. I utilize a framework of corpus-based (critical) discourse analysis in exploring the discursive practices across the cultural structures and task dimensions of these domains, focusing especially upon speakers’ understanding of identities, role-relationships, and power dynamics at work. An iterative cycle which combines critical approaches to data extraction and a progression of stages involving quantitative and functional analyses (Baker et al., 2008; Gentil, 2013) appears to show how the structure and meaning of cross-talk can be further described and explained using evidence from corpora.

	SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
8:00-8:30	Registration
	Lexical Measures of Style Liberal Arts Room 310		L2 English Writing Liberal Arts Room 322	Mixed Methods Liberal Arts Room 346
8:30 - 9:00	Satirical irony in Amazon.com product reviews Stephen Skalicky & Scott Crossley Georgia State University		Presentative constructions in Norwegian L2 learner English Anne-Line Graedler Hedmark University College	Discovering the incongruities in undergraduate writing in chemistry and psychology through the methodological integration of multidimensional analysis and qualitative interviews Katherine Moran Georgia State University
9:00 - 9:30	Mapping Dickens Mike Scott Aston University		Error versus creativity: The metaphorical language of Norwegian L2 English learners Susan Nacey Hedmark University College	Triangulating Data in Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis: Using Corpus, Assessment, and Interview Data to Better Understand a Discourse Domain Shelley Staples Purdue University
9:30 - 10:00	Break
	Disciplinary Writing Multi Dimensional Studies Liberal Arts Room 310		L2 English Writing and Grammatical Complexity Liberal Arts Room 322	Variation in the Verb Phrase Liberal Arts Room 310
10:00 - 10:30	Biology Discourse: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis Jack A. Hardy Georgia State University & Emory University		Navigating rocky terrain: Measuring complexity in L2 student writing Lize Terblanche Northern Arizona University	EFL vs. ESL: not necessarily a continuum Sandra C. Deshors & Stefan Th. Gries New Mexico State University & University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30 - 11:00	Situating Engineering Writing in the Multi-Dimensional World of English Discourse Susan Conrad Portland State University		Noun Phrase Modification as an Indicator of Syntactic Development in Swedish L2 Learners of English Christer Geisler & Christine Johansson Uppsala University	The comings and goings of come and go (and move) Nicholas A. Lester University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00 - 11:30	Talking over the academic garden fence: a multidimensional perspective on interdisciplinary research discourse Paul Thompson, Susan Hunston, Akira Murakami, Dominik Vajn & Douglas Biber University of Birmingham & Northern Arizona University		Exploring syntactic complexity: Variation in language use across writing task types Dan Brown Northern Arizona University	Combining learner corpus and experimental data in studying L2 learner knowledge of verb-argument constructions Ute Römer, Audrey Roberson, Nick Ellis & Matthew Brook O’Donnell Georgia State University, University of Michigan & University of Pennsylvania
11:40 - 12:40 Room 120	Plenary by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, KU Leuven Recent advances in the corpus-based study of linguistic complexity The measurement of linguistic complexity has a long and venerable tradition in corpus-linguistic approaches to language, especially in the realm of applied linguistics and second language acquisition research (where complexity is often understood as an index of language proficiency, or as a benchmark of development). That said, classic measures of complexity in this spirit (e.g. mean length of T-unit, extent of clausal subordination, frequency of “sophisticated” forms, such as the passive) often have a somewhat atomistic, reductionist feel to them and have been criticized in the recent literature. Against this backdrop, I outline three advanced and, crucially, more holistic complexity metrics that are inspired by recent advances in typological and sociolinguistic theory: (1) Analyticity-syntheticity indices draw on terminology, concepts, and ideas developed in quantitative morphological typology, and profile the way grammatical information is coded in corpus samples – either by free grammatical markers (typically considered simple), or by bound grammatical markers (complex). (2) Kolmogorov complexity is an information-theoretic measure which can be conveniently approximated through the use of file compression programs such as gzip. The basic idea is that all other things – such as content – being equal, text samples that can be compressed efficiently are linguistically simple, while text samples that cannot be compressed as efficiently are linguistically more complex. (3) Variational complexity is concerned with the complexity of variation patterns in a language or language variety. Here we axiomatically assume that a language or language variety A is more complex than a language or language variety B to the extent that linguistic variation in A is more constrained – according to regression analysis or similar techniques – than variation in B. I will show how the three metrics can be profitably applied to all kinds of corpus data including – but not limited to – materials relevant in work on second language acquisition and L2 writing development.
	Lunch
12:40 - 2:00
	Phraseology and Discourse Liberal Arts Room 310		Interactive Discourse Liberal Arts Room 322	Research Articles Liberal Arts Room 346
2:00 - 2:30	Analyzing the semantic prosodies and preferences of lexical bundles in research article introductions Viviana Cortes Georgia State University		Signing styles of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB): investigating the role of audience and interaction Aurore Paligot F.R.S. – FNRS and University of Namur	Lexical and Grammatical Variation in Scholarly Writing: a Multidimensional Comparison of Published Native and Non-native Research Articles Elif Demirel Karadeniz Technical University
2:30 - 3:00	Looking at cultural shifts in English over time: A Multi-Dimensional perspective Tony Berber Sardinha Sao Paulo Catholic University		The devil is in the detail: Using corpora to investigate spoken language varieties Elaine Vaughan & Brian Clancy University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College	No paper in this time slot
3:00 - 3:30	Poster Session II
3:30 - 4:00	Break
	Collocation in Specialized Registers Liberal Arts Room 310		Specialized Spoken Registers Liberal Arts Room 322	Vocabulary and Student Writing Liberal Arts Room 346
4:00 - 4:30	Key terminology in business introductory textbooks: Resources for presenting new words Anna Gates Tapia Northern Arizona University		Comparing Oral Proficiency Interviews to Academic and Professional Spoken Registers Geoffrey T. LaFlair, Jesse Egbert & Shelley Staples Northern Arizona University, Brigham Young University & Purdue University	Lexical Diversity, Sophistication, and Error in Generation 1.5 Writing Don Miller California State University, Stanislaus
4:30 - 5:00	Language variation and institutional academic English: A study on phraseology Silvia Bernardini & Adriano Ferraresi University of Bologna		Dimensions of variation across television registers Tony Berber Sardinha & Marcia Veirano Pinto São Paulo Catholic University	An L1 adolescent learner corpus: academic success and lexical competence in grade 12 expository writing Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck University of Calgary
5:30 - ?		RECEPTION at the Biber & Reppen home click here for a map

	SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
	Dialect Variation and the Web Liberal Arts Room 310	Studies of Spanish Learners Liberal Arts Room 322	Grammar Liberal Arts Room 346
9:00 - 9:30	Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Word Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE) Mark Davies Brigham Young University	The Discourse Function of the Subjunctive in Foreign-Language Learners of Spanish Joseph Collentine & Yuly Asención-Delaney Northern Arizona University	No paper in this time slot
9:30 - 10:00	Big Data Dialectology: Analyzing lexical spread in a multi-billion word corpus of American English Jack Grieve, Diansheng Guo, Alice Kasakoff & Andrea Nini Aston University & University of South Carolina	The development of lexical diversity during study abroad: Introducing the new LANG-SNAP longitudinal learner corpus Nicole Tracy-Ventura, Kevin McManus & Rosamond Mitchell University of South Florida, University of York & University of Southampton	The distributional information of relative clauses in child-directed Tagalog Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara UC Santa Cruz
10:00 - 10:30	Break
	Web Registers Liberal Arts Room 310	Pedagogical Applications Liberal Arts Room 322	Grammar and L2 Writing Liberal Arts Room 346
10:30 - 11:00	The language of web registers: A multidimensional study of register variation in English and Brazilian Portuguese Cristina Mayer Acunzo São Paulo Catholic University	Effects of Corpus-Based Instruction on L2 Recognition and Recall of Signal Markers Adnan Ajsic Northern Arizona University	Co-occurring linguistic features in an L2 writing corpus: Insights into prompt effects and successful writing Cynthia M. Murphy & Scott Crossley Georgia State University
11:00 - 11:30	Lexical Bundles in Cyber-texts Eniko Csomay & Viviana Cortes San Diego State University & Georgia State University	Personal EAP corpora: What do independent users do? Maggie Charles Oxford University Language Centre	Are L2 learners sensitive to register differences? A case study of complementizer variation in German and Spanish L2 English Stefanie Wulff University of Florida
11:30 - 12:00	Dimensions of Variation in English Web Registers Douglas Biber, Jesse Egbert, & Lize Terblanche Brigham Young University & Northern Arizona University	The Louvain EAP Dictionary (LEAD): A tailor-made web-based tool for non-native academic writers of English Sylviane Granger & Magali Paquot Université catholique de Louvain	Linguistic Features in ELL and L1 University Student Writing: Revisiting Hinkel’s Findings Margo Russell Portland State University
12:00 - 12:15	Closing Remarks