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Venue: Faraday Complex - Lancaster University (UK) The 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference – CAD 2018 Conference Programme Venue: Faraday Complex - Lancaster University (UK) DAY 1: Friday, 22nd June 2018 08:30-10:00 Registration (Faraday Foyer) 08:30-09:00 Opening of the Conference (Faraday Lecture Theatre) Plenary Session 1: Faraday Lecture Theatre 09:00-10:00 Making a patchwork quilt or Frankenstein's monster? Interdisciplinarity and collaboration in CADS Amanda Potts (Cardiff University) Chair: Paul Baker 10:00-10:30 Coffee/Tea break (Private Dining Room – County South) Panel 1: Frankland Lecture Theatre Panel 2: Faraday Lecture Theatre Panel 3: Cavendish Lecture Theatre Day 1 Chair: Michael Barlow Chair: Gerlinde Mautner Chair: Kat Gupta National face and facework. A corpus- A quantitative evaluation of keyword Marriage for all (‘Ehe fuer alle’)?! A assisted case study of Chinese and US measures for corpus-based discourse corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the press briefings analysis 10:30-11:00 equal marriage debate in Germany Alan Partington and Maria Stefan Evert, Natalie Dykes Ursula Kania Marakhovskaiia and Joachim Peters 5 min for change over Gap between Rhetoric and Reality: Statistical choices in discourse analysis: Institutional discourse on same-sex China’s Self-branding of its Rise and the How to efficiently analyse and visualise marriage: a contrastive analysis between 11:05-11:35 Perceptions in British and American Press discourse data? the US and the UK Zeping Huang and Yunya Song Vaclav Brezina Carmen Serena Santonocito 5 min for change over Combining keyness and dispersion ‘Straight guy looking for a hung wank A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of UK Reuters statistics to investigate the representation buddy’: The construction of ‘authentic’ Online Coverage on Syrian Revolution 11:40-12:10 of rape in the British press heterosexuality in men-for-men casual Amaal Al-Gamde encounters ads Alessia Tranchese and Adriano Ferraresi Łukasz Woźniakowski 1 The 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference – CAD 2018 Conference Programme 12:10-13:10 Lunch (Private Dining Room – County South) Panel 4: Frankland Lecture Theatre Panel 5: Faraday Lecture Theatre Panel 6: Cavendish Lecture Theatre Day 1 Chair: Abi Hawtin Chair: Alan Partington Chair: Laura Paterson Constructing Trust by Reducing Construction grammar and academic The medicalization of transgender Uncertainty: Fiscal Policy in the UK Press, discourse analysis identities in the British press 13:10-13:40 2010-2016 Nicholas Groom Angela Zottola Catherine Walsh 5 min for change over The UK ‘at risk’. Social change and the Lesbians in Modern Day Britain: A Corpus- Collocation analysis to identify the proliferation of ‘at risk’ in print news Based Study of The Discourses ‘unusual’ in hybrid texts 13:45-14:15 media, 1960-2015 Surrounding the Lemma LESBIAN* Reka R. Jablonkai Jens Zinn Frazer Heritage 5 min for change over ‘Bisexual oysters’: Challenges in locating Frugality and fairness. The 2008 From keywords to discourse – towards a marginal identities in a historical economic crisis and morality systematic approach 14:20-14:50 newspaper corpus Rosa Escanes Sierra Joachim Peters and Natalie Dykes Mark Wilkinson 14:50-15:20 Coffee/Tea break (Private Dining Room – County South) Panel 7: Frankland Lecture Theatre Panel 8: Faraday Lecture Theatre Panel 9: Cavendish Lecture Theatre Day 1 Chair: Clyde Ancarno Chair: Costas Gabrielatos Chair: Frazer Heritage Negative identifiers and nominal Religion, Immigration and Integration: compounds. Conceptually profiling Self-representation amongst immigrant Semantic Prosody in Nature as a Qur'anic complex identifying noun phrases to 15:20-15:50 communities with religious identity Theme critically examine their discursive Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Carmen Hala Alshahrani and Claire Brierley functions in a corpus of web forum Dayrell and Gwen Griffith-Dickson discussions Eva Triebl 5 min for change over 2 The 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference – CAD 2018 Conference Programme Modifying nouns, depersonalizing medicine: A corpus-based analysis of Categorizing "the common folk" and "big Negotiation of hybrid identities in a BBC noun phrase complexity in medical prose sister" in Chinese online discussion: A sitcom: Muslim, British and Pakistani 15:55-16:25 from 1700 to the present and its corpus-based discourse analysis S. Bilal Kadiri implications for the sociocultural history of medicine Bingjuan Xiong Georg Marko 5 min for change over Investigating Opposites: A Corpus and A diachronic move structure analysis of Making Hong Kong a smarter travel Critical Stylistic Study of Religion in the the patent specification genre, 1740 - destination: A corpus-assisted discourse 16:30-17:00 Broadsheet Newspapers 2011 study of travel forum posts on social media Sawsan Hassan Nicholas Groom and Jack Grieve Phoenix Lam Poster session (Private Dining Room – County South) Metaphors in U.S. Same-Sex Marriage Discourse: Toward an Integration of Corpus Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis - Pongbodin Amarinthnukrowh Negotiating stance in abortion discourse: a corpus-based analysis - Kristen Fleckenstein ‘Unwanted gay thoughts keep shooting through my head’: SO-OCD Sufferers’ Discursive Construction of Ego-Dystonic Stance - Elvis Coimbra Gomes Multimodal corpus analysis of representations of travel destinations: two methodological approaches - Ekaterina Ignatova 17:00-18:30 Interdisciplinarity and CADS: Critical reflections from a case study of online groomers’ language - Anina Kinzel A Study of Customer Support Dialog Chat Conversations - Jochen L. Leidner A look at male and female Late Modern scientific English from a Multidimensional perspective - Leida Maria Monaco and Luis Puente-Castelo A corpus-assisted diachronic study on the attitudes of British Broadsheet Newspapers towards Hong Kong's handover to China - Xie Shentao A Contrastive Analysis of Presidents’ Messages in Higher Education - Liu Ying Can letter frequencies identify contextual dimensions of discourse? A resampling experiment based on BNC data - Andrew Wilson 17:00-19:00 Wine Reception (Private Dining Room – County South) 3 The 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference – CAD 2018 Conference Programme DAY 2: Saturday, 23rd June 2018 Panel 10: Frankland Lecture Theatre Panel 11: Faraday Lecture Theatre Panel 12: Cavendish Lecture Theatre Day 2 Chair: Frazer Heritage Chair: Elena Semino Chair: James Balfour What your followers say about you: a Which techniques of down-sampling Blaming mothers for feckless fathers? dialectical-relational approach to best complement a corpus-assisted Analysing reader comments posted in 09:00-09:30 (collective) identity in the followership discourse analysis? A case study on direct response to UK online newspaper of an online protest movement press representations of obesity articles Mark McGlashan Paul Baker Laura L Paterson 5 min for change over The #ThingsITrustMoreThan CNN & A Killer, a Thief, a Tsunami: A Corpus- A terrible crime for futile motives and/or FOX: A corpus-based exploration of the Assisted Study of UK Press unconditional love: a corpus-investigation 09:35-10:05 #thingsItrustmorethan movements Representations of Dementia of ‘femminicidio’ in Italy Alex Christiansen Gavin Brookes Federica Formato 5 min for change over Construction of male and female identities “And then she called the GP...”: a in the ‘new misogyny’: a corpus-based Stylistic variation on the Donald Trump corpus-assisted discourse study of discourse comparison of a misogynistic Twitter account gender and the language of physical 10:10-10:40 murderer’s manifesto and misogynistic pain in chronic and terminal illness Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve online forums Sylvia Jaworska Abi Hawtin 10:40-11:10 Coffee/Tea break (Market Place 2 – County South) Panel 13: Frankland Lecture Theatre Panel 14: Faraday Lecture Theatre Panel 15: Cavendish Lecture Theatre Day 2 Chair: Abi Hawtin Chair: Craig Evans Chair: Laura Paterson The discursive construction of trolling Childbirth as a political football? A No means no is not enough: and trolls on British political blogs corpus assisted analysis of the representations of consent in erotic based on the motives attributed to the discursive construction of “normal 11:10-11:40 writing trolls birth” in the UK press 1980-2017 Alon Lischinsky and Kat Gupta Márton Petykó Karen Kinloch 5 min for change over 4 The 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference – CAD 2018 Conference Programme Plenary Session 2: Faraday Lecture Theatre 11:45-12:45 Digital trust, drugs and the extreme far right: Too much for CADS? Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Matteo Di Cristofaro (Swansea University) Chair: Tony McEnery 12:45-13:45 Lunch (Market Place 2 – County South) Panel 16: Frankland Lecture Theatre Panel 17: Faraday Lecture Theatre Panel 18: Cavendish Lecture Theatre Day 2 Chair: Craig Evans Chair: Jens Zinn Chair: Sylvia Jaworska Metaphors and narratives of climate Right- and left-wing identities: a corpus- Reshaping corporate image through change across genres and discourse assisted study of Hungarian parliamentary translation: a corpus-assisted study communities: A corpus-based 13:45-14:15 debates comparison Sara Castagnoli and Elena Magistro Elena Valvason Alice Deignan and Elena Semino 5 min for change over Climate change and displacement: A “Bad language” in film translation: a diachronic corpus-assisted discourse Mapping different discursive formation: 14:20-14:50 corpus-driven study analysis of the climate change- how do populist
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