The 9th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference Language, Communities & Mobility University of Malta June 13 – 15, 2018 IVACS 2018 Wednesday 13th June 2018 The conference is to be held at the University of Malta Valletta Campus, St. Paul’s Street, Valletta. 12:00 – 12:45 Conference Registration 12:45 – 13:00 Conferencing opening welcome and address University of Malta, Dean of the Faculty of Arts: Prof. Dominic Fenech Room: Auditorium 13:00 – 14:00 Plenary: Dr Robbie Love, University of Leeds Overcoming challenges in corpus linguistics: Reflections on the Spoken BNC2014 Room: Auditorium Rooms Auditorium (Level 2) Meeting Room 1 (Level 0) Meeting Room 2 (Level 0) Meeting Room 3 (Level 0) 14:00 – 14:30 Adverb use in spoken ‘Yeah, no, everyone seems to On discourse markers in Lexical Bundles in the interaction: insights and be saying that’: ‘New’ Lithuanian argumentative Description of Drug-Drug implications for the EFL pragmatic markers as newspaper discourse: a Interactions: A Corpus-Driven classroom represented in fictionalized corpus-based study Study - Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Irish English - Anna Ruskan - Lukasz Grabowski Geraldine Mark - Ana Mª Terrazas-Calero & Carolina Amador-Moreno 1 14:30 – 15:00 “Um so yeah we’re <laughs> So you have to follow The Study of Ideological Bias Using learner corpus data to you all know why we’re different methods and through Corpus Linguistics in inform the development of a here”: hesitation in student clearly there are so many Syrian Conflict News from diagnostic language tool and presentations methods: analyzing CNN and Russia Today News individualised learning - Kristin Horan assertiveness in Brazilian Outlets programme university students spoken - Pimkarn Wasuwong - Caitlin Neachtain interlanguage - Bárbara Malveira Orfanò 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break Rooms Auditorium (Level 2) Meeting Room 1 (Level 0) Meeting Room 2 (Level 0) Meeting Room 3 (Level 0) 15:30 – 16:00 Factors impacting the usage Pronouns in CHET and Where are they from? Between an /r/ and a schwa: of UK-based international CECheT: revealing authorial Geographical representation Illustrating some of the joys foundation presence of migrants before and after and woes of big data for - Dana Therova - Begoña Crespo & Isabel Brexit speech analysis Moskowich - Dario Del Fante - Alexandra Vella & Sarah Grech 16:00 – 16:30 A Corpus-based Examination Evidence of nesting in Unveiling the journalist’s Varieties of English in English of the Vocabulary Used in metaphoric language stance: Focus on The Language Teaching in Medical Multiple Choice - Katie J. Patterson Economist’s coverage of the Germany Questions Brexit referendum - Lisa Scheiwe - Emily Harms - Roberta Facchinetti, Sara Corrizzato & Valeria Franceschi 2 16:30 – 17:00 Corpus-driven Approach to NOT THE 99 PER CENT. Some methodological Something borrowed and Lexical Semantic Change: A (Under-) representation of challenges in the something new: a dual Case Study the less wealthy in British identification of approach for studying inter- - Gang Yao fiction corpora discriminatory attitudes and varietal differences - Michael Pace-Sigge counter-speech in online multilingually newspaper comments - Ilmari Ivaska, Silvia - Stavros Assimakopoulos & Bernardini & Adriano Rebecca Vella Muskat Ferraresi 17:00 – 17:30 An analysis of a corpus of The Trojan Horse: the Teacher Talk in the Construction of Iraqi Shiites secondary-level EFL in Times of Wars in the US classroom: highlighting Press differences in modality and - Dhiaa Kareem in the use of phrasal verbs - Eric Nicaise 17:30 Welcome Reception 3 Thursday 14th June 2018 08:30 – 09:00 Registration Room Auditorium (Level 2) Meeting Room 1 (Level 0) Meeting Room 2 (Level 0) Meeting Room 3 (Level 0) 09:00 – 09:30 A Corpus-Based Analysis of This is England, speak ‘I hear whispers and I don’t Where is the I? Cultural Social Interaction in LTE English! A corpus-assisted like it’: Conflict in a Corpus of Diversity and the Self in L2 Contexts critical study of language Spoken Interactions from the Student Writing - Fiona Farr, Angela Farrell & ideologies in the British press Construction Industry - Jelena Runić Elaine Riordan - Gavin Brookes & David - Almut Koester & Michael Wright Handford 09:30 – 10:00 The design and annotation of Using corpus linguistic Stoefpears Run the World’: A Exploring the Use of the TEG learner corpus of methods to uncover verbal Corpus Study into English Collocation in the Writing of Irish cues to deception Code-Mixing in Dutch Youths’ Saudi University Students - Aoife Ní Ghloinn, Elaine Uí - Mathew Gillings Computer-Mediated Using Corpus Methodology Dhonnchadha & Anne O’ Communication - Huda Yahya Khoja Keeffe - Lieke Verheijen, Roeland van Hout & Laura de Weger 10:00 – 10:30 ‘That’s the dilemma you Peeling back the layers: using “Straight talking money” A The Relationship between know’: Patterns and CL and CA to examine Focus corpus assisted critical Phraseology and Writing functions of *you know* as Group talk discourse analysis of payday Quality: Implications for the used by L1- and L2-speakers - Róisín Ní Mhocháin loans websites Assessment of Student of English - Hazel Price & Dan McIntyre Writing in an English as a - Giovani Santos Lingua Franca Context - Lee McCallum 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee 4 Room Auditorium (Level 2) Meeting Room 1 (Level 0) Meeting Room 2 (Level 0) Meeting Room 3 (Level 0) 11:00 – 11:30 A Corpus-Aided Comparative Corpus design and Predatory discourses and the The readability of Flemish Analysis of Native and Non- construction: the challenges incitement of violence legal documents Native Speaking English faced by minoritized against women in an online - Michael Bauwens & José Language Teachers' languages discussion forum Tummers Approaches to In-Class - Dawn Knight - David Wright & Ikechukwu Spoken Feedback E. Onyenwe - Jane Seely 11:30 – 12:00 "I went to the cinema” and “I Linguistic Resources for On formulaicity of Russian Linked noun groups: teaching came to the conclusion”: facilitating MOOC discussion patient information leaflets: a awareness of genre-specific Zoning in on acquisitional forum: A Corpus Driven corpus-driven study uses patterns of learner grammar Approach - Lukasz Grabowski - Michael Pace-Sigge development - Shi Min Chua - Geraldine Mark, Pascual Pérez-Paredes & Anne O’Keeffe 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 13:00 – 14:00 Plenary: Prof. Ute Römer, Georgia State University Verb constructions in second language acquisition: From learner corpus analysis to pedagogical recommendations Room: Auditorium Rooms Auditorium (Level 2) Meeting Room 1 (Level 0) Meeting Room 2 (Level 0) Meeting Room 3 (Level 0) 14:00 – 14:30 Lexical development in The Corpus of Irish Narratives The diagnostic potential of Conceptualising context in English school children's - Chris Fitzgerald Contextual Prosodic Theory corpus linguistics: moving writing from six to sixteen in establishing forensically beyond metadata - Philip Durrant & Mark the features of manipulative - Michael Handford & Dawn Brenchley Knight 5 newspaper discourse in Russian - Marija Milojkovic 14:30 – 15:00 Let's talk about maths: using Difficult Words: An Analysis Exploring markers of On corpus linguistic classroom data for of Terminology in a Corpus of emergent professional approaches to study collaborative professional Irish Education Materials identity and status in an language: a critical reflection development - Mícheál J. Ó Meachair & international mobile - Milena Hebal-Jezierska & - Joanna Baumgart Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha community Łukasz Grabowski - Margaret Healy 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Rooms Auditorium (Level 2) Meeting Room 1 (Level 0) Meeting Room 2 (Level 0) Meeting Room 3 (Level 0) 15:30 – 16:00 Using a Multimodal Corpus in You can’t achieve a shrimp: a Populism in Italian politicians' Stories and ‘story-likes’: How EFL Classrooms; an Action corpus-driven approach to social messages. A corpus- lecturers use real and Research on Learner Attitude increased precision in noun- based study of three hypothetical events to - Sara Aljohani verb collocations politicians' social media scaffold knowledge in - Jane Templeton discourse different EMI contexts - Dario Del Fante - Siân Alsop & Hilary Nesi 16:00 – 16:30 Using a learner corpus to Understanding the Interests Science in the UK media: An Investigating advanced develop English language of Communities of analysis of two newspapers translation learners’ teaching (ELT) materials TripAdvisor Travellers - Geri Popova problems of lexical cohesion: targeted at Spanish learners through a Corpus-Based A corpus-based study of - Julie Moore Discourse Analytic Approach lexical repetition in English to - Phoenix Lam Chinese translation - Jun Pan & Honghua Wang 16:30 – 17:00 A corpus-based comparison of A learner corpus research on Corpus Analysis of Modal Verb The Effect of Indirect Coded registers in EFL school the diagnosis of accuracy in unda in Georgian Corrective Feedback and 6 textbooks for secondary grammatical morphemes by - Sophiko Daraselia & Nino Error-Tagged Learner Corpora schools in France, Germany interlanguage users: A case of Sharashenidze on the Reduction of Errors in and Spain prospective English teachers L2 Writing Tasks - Elen Le Foll in Turkey - Chiachieh Tang - Erdem Akbas & Zeynep Olcu-Dincer 17:00 – 17:30 The ELT Archive Textbook Multimodal Corpus in Refugees in the Spanish The Use of Inferential Lexical Corpus: How much has Teaching Russian as a Foreign written media: A corpus- Bundles in Academic Writing language teaching changed? 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