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MICASE-based Publications and Presentations

Publications

In press

 

Csomay, E. A corpus-based look at linguistic variation in classroom interaction: Teacher talk versus student talk in American University classes. Journal of English for academic purposes.

Wulff, S., Ellis, N., Römer, U., Bardovi-Harlig, K., & LeBlanc, C. The acquisition of tense-aspect: Converging evidence from corpora, cognition, and learner constructions. The Modern Language Journal.

2008

 

Conrad, S. [Review of the book The MICASE Handbook: A resource for Users of The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English]. The Modern Language Journal, 92, 155-156.

Levis, J. & Cortes, V. Minimal pairs in spoken corpora: Implications for pronunciation assessment and teaching. In C. A. Chapelle, Y.-R. Chung, & J. Xu (Eds.), Towards adaptive CALL: Natural language processing for diagnostic language assessment, pp. 197-208. Ames, IA: Iowa State University.

Louwerse, M., Crossley, S., & Jeuniauxa, P. What if? Conditionals in educational registers. Linguistics and Education, 19(1), 56-69.

Melles, G. Producing fact, affect and identity in architecture critiques: a discourse analysis of student and faculty discourse interaction. Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, 6(3), 159-171.

O’Grady, W., Nakamura, M., & Ito, Y. Want-to contraction in second language acquisition: An emergentist approach. Lingua, 118(4), 478-498.

Yoo , I. A corpus analysis of (the) last/next + temporal nouns. Journal of English Linguistics, 36 (1), 39-61.

2007

 

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. The Language of Business Studies Lectures. A corpus-assisted analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Grant, L. In a manner of speaking: Assessing frequent spoken figurative idioms to assist ESL/EFL teachers. System, 35(2), 169-181.

Grieve-Smith, A. The envelope of variantion in multidimensional register and genre analyses. In E. Fitzpatrick (ed.) Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse, pp. 21-42. Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi.

Maynard, C. & Leicher, S. Pragmatic Annotation of an academic spoken corpus for pedagogical purposes. In E. Fitzpatrick (ed.) Corpus Linguistics Beyond the Word: Corpus Research from Phrase to Discourse, pp. 107-116. Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi.

Ruzaité, J. Vague references to quantities as a face-saving strategy in teacher-student interaction. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 3, 157-178.

Tao, H. A corpus-based investigation of absolutely and related phenomena in spoken american English.  Journal of English Linguistics, 35(1):1-25.


2006

 

Artiga León, M. The semantic-pragmatic interface of authorial presence in academic lecturing phraseology. IBÉRIA, 12, 127-144.

Hulstijn, J. & Maudet, N. Uptake and joint action. Cognitive Systems Research, 2-3, 175-191 .

Lorés, R. The referential function of metadiscourse: thing(s) and idea(s) in academic lectures. In A, Hornero, M. Luzón & S. Murillo (eds.) Corpus Linguistics: Applications for the Study of English , pp. 315-334. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Meyer, C. Corpus linguistics, the world wide web, and English language teaching. Journal of the European Association of Languages for Spedific Purposes, 12: 9-21.

Murille, S. The role of reformulation markers in academic lectures. In A, Hornero, M. Luzón & S. Murillo (eds.) Corpus Linguistics: Applications for the Study of English , pp. 353-364. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Pérez-Llantada, C. Discourse and the social construction of scientific knowledge: a look at academic vs. professional communities of practice. In M. Carretero, et al. (eds.) A Pleasure for Life in Words: A Festschrift for Angela Downing.

Pérez-Llantada, C. Genre-based pragmatic variability of interactive features in academic speech. In A, Hornero, M. Luzón & S. Murillo (eds.) Corpus Linguistics: Applications for the Study of English , pp. 385-398. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Ranta, E. The "attractive" progressive - why use the -ing form in English as a lingua franca? Nordic Journal of English Studies, 5(12): 95-116.

Vázquez, I. A corpus-based approach to the distribution of nominalization in academic discourse. In A, Hornero, M. Luzón & S. Murillo (eds.) Corpus Linguistics: Applications for the Study of English , pp. 399-416. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

 

Pérez-Llantada, C. & Ferguson G. (eds.) English as a GloCalization Phenomenon: Obervation from a Linguistic Microcosm. Valéncia: University de Valéncia. (Order the book)

Neumann, C. The complex dynamics of faculty-stude3nt relations in dialogic academic speech events: the research group meeting. pp. 25-44.

Escudero, M. The gender of power relations in academic speech: a cross-disciplinary approach. pp. 45-58.

Pérez-Llantada, C. Signaling spearker's intentions: towards a phraseology of textual metadiscourse in academic lecturing. pp. 59-86.

Lorés, R. Academic literacy vs academic oracy: signaling nouns as devices of intratranslation. pp. 89-114.

Murillo, S. Developing the message: retake phenomena in scientific lectures. pp. 115-130.

Vázquez, I. A corpus-based approach to nominalization in academic lectures. pp. 131-152.

Guillén, I. The use of ideational grammatical metaphor in academic spoken English. pp. 153-181.

Plo, R. Vagueness and imprecise numbers in the hard disciplines of the MICASE. pp. 185-208.

Artiga, R. "I think I know what you are saying." Epistemic lexical verbs as stance markers in American academic speech. pp. 209-236.

Aixalá, I. "What we mean is actually how we mean." A contribution to the analysis of sociopragmatic aspects of MICASE discussion sections. pp. 237-256.

Gabás, L. How to arrange MICASE-based pedagogical materials for the teaching/learning of EAP vocabulary. pp. 257-278.

2005

 

Fortanet, I. Interaction in Academic Spoken English: the use of "I" and "You" in the MICASE. In E. Macià, A. Cervera & C. Ramos (eds.) Information Technology in Languages for Spedific Purposes: Issues and Prospects, pp. 35-52. Springer: New York.

Pérez-Llantada, C. From corpus research into language methodology. Discourse structuring words in ESP lecture comprehension. Revista de Inglés para Fins Específicos, 2: 63-70.

Pérez-Llantada, C. Instruction and interaction in an American lecture class. Observations from a corpus. The ESPecialist, 26 (2): 205-228.

Recski, L. Concordâncias, listas de palavras e palavras-chave: o que elas podem nos dizer sobre a linguagem? Literatura y Lingüítica, 16, 249-261.

Recski, L. Introducing the unexpected: a syntactic-semantic account of actually and in fact in a corpus of modern English. The ESpecialist, 26(1): 79-107.

Smet, H. & Cuyckens, H. Pragmatic Strengthening and the Meaning of Complement Constructions. Journal of English Linguistics, 33(1), 3-34.

Swales, J. M. Corpus linguistics and English for academic purposes. In E. Macià, A. Cervera & C. Ramos (eds.) Information Technology in Languages for Spedific Purposes: Issues and Prospects, pp. 19-34. Springer: New York.

 

2004

 

Bamford, J. Gestural and symbolic uses of the deictic "here" in academic lectures. In Aijmer, K. & A-B Stenström (eds.) Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, pp. 113-138. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Chay, Hyun-tahk. Distinctive Usage of Though and Although: Presupposition vs. Assertion. English Language and Linguistics 18: 63-84.

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. Audience-oriented relavance markers in business studies lectures. In G. Camiciotti & E. Tognini Bonelli (eds.) Academic Discourse - New Insights into Evaluation, pp. 81-98. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. Interacting with the audience: modal verbs in cross-cultural lectures. In R. Facchinetti and F. Palmer (eds.) English Modality in Perspective. Genre Analysis and Contrastive Studies, pp. 27-43, Franfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. Interactive discourse structuring in L2 guest lectures: some insights from a comparative corpus-based study. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 3(1): 39-54.

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. Metaphor as evaluation in business studies lectures. In L. Anderson and J. Bamfors (eds.). Evaluation in Oral and Written Academic Discourse, pp. 53-71. Roma: Officina Edizioni.

Fortanet, I. The use of 'we' in university lectures: reference and function. English for Specific Purposes, 23: 45-66.

Fortanet, I. Verbal stance in spoken academic discourse. In G. Camiciotti & E. Tognini Bonelli (eds.) Academic Discourse - New Insights into Evaluation, pp. 99-120. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Gómez, I. I think: opinion, uncertainty or politeness in academic spoken English? RAEL: revista electrónica de lingüística aplicada, 3, 63-84

Mauranen, A. Speech corpora in the classroom. In G. Aston, S. Bernardini & D. Stewart (eds.) Corpora and lanuage learners, pp. 195-211. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Mauranen, A. “They're a little bit different”: Variation in hedging in academic speech. In Aijmer, K. & A-B Stenström (eds.) Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora, pp. 173-197. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Recski, L. Interpersonal engagement in academic spoken discourse: a functional account of dissertation defenses. English for Specific Purposes, 24: 5-23.

Simpson, R. Stylistic features of spoken academic discourse: The role of formulaic expressions. In Connor, U. & T. Upton (eds.) Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics, pp. 37-64.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Swales, J. M. Evaluation in academic speech: First forays. In G. Camiciotti & E. Tognini Bonelli (eds.) Academic Discourse - New Insights into Evaluation, pp. 31-53. Switzerland: Peter Lang.

Swales, J. M. Is the university a community of practice? In S. Sarangi & T. Van Leeuwen (eds.) Applied Linguistics and Communities of Practice, pp. 203-216. London: Continuum.

Swales, J. M. Research Genres: Explorations and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Chapters 5 and 6 are especially related to MICASE] 

2003

Mauranen, A. "But there's a flawed argument": Socialization into and through metadiscourse. In Leistyna P. & C. Meyer (eds.) Corpus Analysis: Language structure and use. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp.19-34.

Mauranen, A. & Bondi, M. Evaluative language use in academic discourse. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2(4): 269-271.

Simpson, R. C. and Mendis, Dushyanthi. A corpus-based study of idioms in academic speech. TESOL Quarterly, 37(3): 419-441.

Swales, J. M. & Burke, A. “It's really fascinating work”: Differences in evaluative adjectives across academic registers. In Meyer, C. & P. Leistyna (eds.) Corpus Analysis: Language structure and use. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp.1-18.

2002

Mauranen, A. “A good question”: Expressing evaluation in academic speech. In Cortese, G. & P. Riley (eds.) Domain-specific English: Textual practices across communities and classrooms. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. pp.115-140.

Poos, D., & Simpson, R. C. Cross-disciplinary comparisons of hedging: Some findings from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English. In Reppen, R., Fitzmaurice, S. M., and Biber, D., Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.3-23.

Swales, J. M. Integrated and fragmented worlds: EAP materials and corpus linguistics. In J. Flowerdew (Ed.) Academic Discourse. London: Longman. pp.153-167.

Yaeger-Dror, M., Hall-Lew, L., & Deckert, S. It’s not or isn’t it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies. Language Variation and Change 14: 79-118. Available online at http://www.stanford.edu/~dialect/yaegeretal2002.pdf.

2001

Lindemann, S., & Mauranen, A. It's just real messy: The occurrence and function of ‘just' in a corpus of academic speech. English for Specific Purposes, 20:459-475.

Mauranen, A. Reflexive academic talk: Observations from MICASE. In Simpson, R. C. & J. M. Swales (eds.), pp.165-178.

Mauranen, A. Descriptions or explanations? Some methodological issues in Contrastive Rhetoric. In M. Hewings (ed.) Academic Writing in Context: Implications and applications. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham Press. pp.43-54.

Powell, C., & Simpson, R. C. Collaboration between corpus linguists and digital librarians for the MICASE web search interface. In Simpson, R. C. & J. M. Swales (eds.), pp.32-47.

Simpson, R. C. & Swales, J. M. (eds.) Corpus Linguistics in North America: Selections from the 1999 symposium. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Simpson, R. C. & Swales, J. M. North American perspectives on corpus linguistics at the millennium. In Simpson, R. C. & J. M. Swales (eds.), 1-14.

Swales, J. M. Metatalk in American academic talk: The cases of “point” and “thing.” Journal of English Linguistics, 29:34-54.

Swales, John M. & Malczewski, Bonnie. Discourse management and new episode flags in MICASE. In Simpson, R. C. & J. M. Swales (eds.), pp.145-164.

2000

Simpson, R. C., Lucka, Bret & Ovens, Janine. Methodological challenges of planning a spoken corpus with pedagogical outcomes. In Burnard, Lou & Tony McEnery (eds.), Rethinking Language Pedagogy from a Corpus Perspective: Papers from the third international conference on Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC), 43-49. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

 

 

Doctoral Dissertations

 

2007

 

Diniz, Luciana. 2007. Highly frequent function words in the light of the idiom principle. Georgia State University, Atlanta..

Reinhardt, J. Directives usage by ITAs: An applied learner corpus analysis. PhD dissertation, Pennsylvania State University.

 

2006

 

Bellés, B. Discourse markers within the university lecture genre: a contrastive study between Spanish and north-American lectures. PhD dissertation, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.

 

2005

 

Schleef, E. Navigating joint activities in English and German academic discourse: Form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of discourse markers and question tags. PhD dissertation, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 

2004

 

Mendis, D. Bathtubs, black holes and kitchen sinks: Metaphor in academic speech. PhD dissertation, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Santana-Williamson, E. A comparative study of the abilities of native and nonnative speakers of American English to use discourse markers and conversational hedges as elements of the structure of unplanned spoken American English interactions in three subcorpora of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English. DD dissertation, Alliant International University, San Diego.

 


Pedagogical Materials incorporating MICASE data

(for unpublished work, please see Instructional Materials)

2007

Schneider, B., Van Camp, R., Laakkonen, I., & Korhonen, L. Corpus Library (module 3 on "Let's talk MICASE"). University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Available online at http://kielikeskus.jyu.fi/kookit06/corpus/intro/intro.html

2002

Reinhart, S. M. Giving Academic Presentations. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

Conference Presentations and Workshops

 

2008

Barlow, M., & Römer, U. Exploring and teaching the phraseology of academic discourse. Workshop at the 8th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 8) conference, July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Diniz, L. Suggestions and recommendations in academic speech. Paper presented at AACL, March 2008, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

Ellis, N., & Simpson-Vlach, R. An Academic Formulas List (AFL): Corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, and education. Paper presented at the 8th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 8) conference, July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Imao, Y. A comparison of modal plus verb associations in written and spoken academic English and written general English. Paper presented at AAAL, March 2008, Washington, DC.

Kosem, I. User-friendly tools for language teaching and learning. Paper presented at the 8th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 8) conference, July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Moran, K. Quotative ‘be like’ use in MICASE. Paper presented at TESOL, April 2008, New York, NY.

Rij-Heyligers, J. van. Politeness in academic settings: The case of MICASE. Paper presented at the 8th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 8) conference, July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Römer, U., & Wulff, S. The new MICASE online interface and its potential for EAP teaching. Paper presented at the 8th Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC 8) conference, July 2008, Lisbon, Portugal.

Staples, S. Gaining the floor: Interrupting in MICASE. Paper presented at TESOL, April 2008, New York, NY.

Wulff, S., Ellis, N., Römer, U., Bardovi-Harlig, K., & LeBlanc, C. A constructional analysis of tense-aspect in spoken English. Colloquium paper presented at AAAL, March 2008, Washington, DC.

2007

Barlow, M., & Römer, U. Extracting collocations from specialized corpora. Pre-conference workshop held at Corpus Linguistics 2007, July 2007, Birmingham, UK.

Beers, B., & Martin, K. Using MICASE & Praat to teach pragmatics. Paper presented at TESOL, March 2007, Seatle, Washington.

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. A corpus-informed approach to teaching lecture comprehension skills in English for business studies. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to ELT, November 2007, Castellón, Spain.

Crawford Camiciottoli, B. The Multiple Identities of the Business Academic. Paper presented at Issues of Identity in and across Cultures and Professional Worlds. October 2007, Rome, Italy.

Römer, U. Using general and specialised corpora in language teaching: Past, present and future. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Corpus-based Approaches to ELT, November 2007, Castellón, Spain. .

Trnka, K., & McCoy, K. Corpus studies in word prediction. Paper presented at ASSETS'07, October 2007, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Available online at http://www.cis.udel.edu/~mccoy/sig-nlp-fall07/Trnka-corpus_study.pdf.

2006

Adel, A. What uh the folks who did this survey found: Attribution in spoken academic lectures. Paper presented at AAACL Flagstaff, Arizona.

Björkman, B. Discourse features in student presentations at tertiary level. Paper presented at Academic voices in contrast conference, May 2006, University of Bergen, Norway.

Römer, U. Texts, tools, techniques: Explorations of academic discourse. Presentation and workshop held as part of an intensive course on "Special and varied corpora" at the Tuscan Word Centre, October 2006, Pontignano, Italy.

2005

Tao, H. 2005. So You Can Do a Lot of Things with a Corpus? Oh, Absolutely!: An Essay on Frequency Effects on Meaning and Structure of Language. Joint Meetings of the 26th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) and the 6th Annual Conference of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics (AAACL), Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 12-15, 2005.

2004

Grieve-Smith, A. The Role of choices in measuring register and genre variation. Paper presented at the Symposium of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, May 2004, Upper Montclair, NJ.

Nesi, H. The Lexis of Spoken Academic Discourse. Paper presented at the 2nd Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studes Conference (IVACS), June 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Lee, D. Y.W. & Gunesekera, M. Humor in spoken academic discourse. Paper presented at TESOL, Apr., 2004, Long Beach, CA.(Handout)

Maynard, C., & Leicher, S. Pragmatic annotation of an academic spoken corpus for pedagogical purposes. Paper presented at the Symposium of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, May 2004, Upper Montclair, NJ.

Ohlrogge, A. & Tsang. “I'm dying to ask you a question”: Hyperbole, Corpus Linguistics and Academic Discourse. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.  Honolulu, HI, January 8-11, 2004.  Published in conference proceedings.

Shehzad, W. How time is talked about in academic English? A corpus-based approach to TESL with reference to MICASE. Paper presented at the 2th Asia TESL Conference, November 2004, Seoul, Korea.

Simpson, R. C. and Adolphs, Svenja. Recurrent formulaic sequences in American and British academic English. Paper presented at the 2nd Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studes Conference (IVACS), June 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Simpson, R. C. Politeness strategies in students' classroom questions. Paper presented at IVACS, June 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland.(Handout/Teaching Materials)

Simpson, R. C. Corpora and generalizability: The case of Wh-clefts. Plenary presentation at the Symposium of the American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics, May 2004, Upper Montclair, NJ.

Swales, J. M.  Towards a Working Grammar of Academic and Research Speech. Plenary presentation at IVACS Conference, June 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Full text.)

Swales, J. M. The US dissertation defense: A Preliminary genre analysis. Paper presented at Uppsala University, Jan. 2004.

Swales, J. M. Five case studies of US dissertation defenses. Paper presented at Purdue University, Apr. 2004.

2003

Lee, D. Y.W. Spoken lexicogrammar and discourse patterns in the academy: MICASE past, present and future. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2003, Mar. 2003, Lancaster University, UK. (Power point slides)

Mauranen, A. “It seems to me like you're saying”: Formulae in argumentative discussion. AAAL, Mar. 2003., Arlington, VA.

Nesi, H. Enumeration as a predictive category in academic monologue. AAAL, Mar. 2003, Arlington, VA.

Rescki, L. Interpersonal engagement on academic spoken discourse: A Functional account of dissertation defenses. Paper presented at the English Language Institute brown-bag series, Sept. 2004, Ann Arbor, MI.

Simpson, R. C. Academic Spoken English: What Are the Questions? Plenary paper presented at ICAME, Apr. 2003, Guernsey, UK.

Simpson, R. C. Defining and characterizing interactivity in academic classroom discourse. AAAL, Mar. 2003, Arlington, VA.

Simpson, R. C. Corpus-based materials for interactive academic listening. TESOL, Mar. 2003, Baltimore, MD.

Swales, J. M. A closer look at aspects of institutional speech. Workshop at the Centre for Discourse Studies research seminar, June 2003, University of Aalborg, Denmark.

Swales, J. M. Evaluation in academic speech. Keynote paper presented at Evaluation in Academic Discourse, June 2003, Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy.

Swales, J. M. The Dissertation defense in the US. AAAL, Mar. 2003, Arlington, VA.

Swales, J. M. Corpus linguistics and spoken English for academic purposes. Plenary paper presented at CIFLE 6 (6é Congrés de Llengüe per a Finalitats Especifiques), Jan. 2003, UPC-Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain.

Tsang, & Ohlrogge, A.  “Nobody Ever Does This”: Hyperbole in Academic Speech.  Presented at the North American Undergraduate Linguistics Conference.  Ann Arbor, MI, October 10, 2003.

2002

Presentations at the 4th North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching, Nov. 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Briggs, S. & Lee, D. Y.W. (Poster Presentation) Developing a Lexical Database of Academic Spoken English (LDASE) for Language Testing: Problems & Prospects.(Abstract/Handout)

Mendis, D. How do you give instructions when instructing? Evidence from a corpus of academic speech. (Abstract/Handout)

Simpson, R. C. A corpus-based study comparing students' and professors' use of formulaic expressions. (Abstract/Handout)

Shaw, K., & Busch, A. Student Presentations at the University of Michigan: Argument or Show and Tell?(Abstract/Handout)

Swales, J. M. “Any last minute thoughts on this particular search?” The occurrence of sentence-initial ellipsis (SIE) in research speech.(Abstract/Handout)

Other Presentations:

Simpson, R. C. Giving and getting advice in academic contexts: corpus-based teaching materials development. Inter-varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference (IVACS), June 2002, Limerick, Ireland.

Simpson, R. C. Stylistic features of academic speech: the role of formulaic expressions. BAAL, Sept. 2002, Cardiff, UK.

Simpson, R. C., Mendis, Dushyanthi, and Komsic, Angela. A corpus-based study of idioms in academic speech. American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Apr. 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Swales, J. M. Is the university a community of practice? BAAL, Sept. 2002, Cardiff, UK.

2001

Presentations at the 3rd North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching, Mar. 2001, Boston, MA.

Mauranen, A. But here's a flawed argument: Socialisation into and through metadiscourse.

Pagliere, A. MICASE Implementation: Making the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English web accessible.

Simpson, R. C. Statistical analysis of disciplinary style in transcripts of spoken academic English.

Swales, J. M. & Burke, Amy. It's really fascinating work: Differences in evaluative adjectives across academic registers.

Other Presentations:

Briggs, S. & Simpson, R. C. Using an academic corpus to evaluate the lexis of EAP tests. Language Testing Research Colloquium, St. Louis, Missouri, Feb. 2001.

2000

Presentations at the 2nd North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching, March 31- April 2 2000, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ..

Mauranen, A. They're a little bit different: Observations on hedges in academic talk.

Ovens, J. You have no way of knowing that: A study of negation in spoken academic discourse.

Simpson, R. C. Adverbial hedges in spoken academic language: Cross-disciplinary comparisons and teaching applications.

Other Presentations:

Mauranen, A. Expressing evaluation in academic speech. SESSE 5 Conference, Helsinki.

Mauranen, A. Pragmatized expressions in academic speech. Seventh International Pragmatics Conference, Budapest. 

Simpson, R. C. Cross-disciplinary comparisons in a corpus of spoken academic English. Teaching and Language Corpora 2000, July 19-23 2000, Graz, Austria.

Yaeger-Dror, M., Hall-Lew, L. & Deckert, S. It’s not or isn’t it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies. Paper presented at AAACL 2, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

1999

Mauranen, A. Reflexive Academic Talk: A Corpus Approach. Presentation at Dialogue Analysis VII, “Working with Dialogue”, 7th IADA Conference, Apr. 1999, Birmingham, UK.

Poos, D. A question of gender? Hedging in academic spoken discourse. Michigan Linguistic Society, Oct. 1999, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Simpson, R. C., Lindemann, Stephanie & Swales, John M. First Forays into MICASE. Department of English Colloquium, Apr. 1999, Central Michigan University.

Briggs, S., & Dobson, B. Using a Spoken Language Corpus in the development of an EAP Listening Test. Poster presentation, Language Teaching Research Colloquium, Tokyo.