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Please check http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/SummerSchool.html for further updates. A. PROGRAMME (on 10th Floor, North Wing of Main Building, Aston Uni): All sessions will be in the same computer lab, 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm, including practical exercises. 1. INTRODUCTION TO CORPUS LINGUISTICS - Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston) (key concepts, history, design/creation/copyright, software, analysis, annotation, etc) 2. DIACHRONIC CORPORA (Penn corpora) - Dr Carola Trips (Mannheim, Germany) 3. KEYWORDS and LITERATURE (WordSmith Tools) - Dr Mike Scott (Aston) 4. MULTILINGUAL and PARALLEL CORPORA (Multiconcord) - Philip King (Aston) 5. TRANSLATION - Patricia Rodríguez-Inés (Barcelona, Spain) 6. CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, LANGUAGE & GENDER, FEMINISM - Dr Sylvia Jaworska (Queen Mary, London) 7. EAP and LEXICOGRAPHY (SketchEngine) - Dr Iztok Kosem (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 8. SPOKEN DATA (GeWiss project), LANGUAGE LEARNING/TEACHING (ACORN project) - Ramesh Krishnamurthy (Aston) 9. METAPHOR - Klaus Thiele (Aston) 10. LEARNER CORPORA (ICLE) - Dr Cem Can (Adana, Turkey) B. REGISTRATION FEES: STANDARD FEE: £250; NON-ASTON STUDENTS: £200; ASTON STUDENTS: £150 1. Fee includes lunches and coffee/tea/etc; but NOT ACCOMMODATION, or evening social events. 2. STUDENTS must be unwaged, and provide proof of status, e.g. scanned copy of student card emailed to [log in to unmask] 3. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION: discount of £25 for online registration/payment before JULY 1st 2011 4. Online registration form will be available very soon. C. ACCOMMODATION: click HERE<http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/accommodation2010.doc> for information - note: 2010 prices - will be updated soon. D. REPORTS/FEEDBACK: Summer School 2009<http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/REPORT-2009.doc>, Summer School 2010<http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/REPORT-on-SummerSchool.docx>. NOTE: In 2012, we hope to resume the Aston Corpus Symposium and Postgraduate Conference, and introduce an Advanced Summer School. Ramesh Krishnamurthy Visiting Academic Fellow, School of Languages and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET Room: NX01. Tel: 0121-204-3812. Director, ACORN (Aston Corpus Network project): http://acorn.aston.ac.uk/ Project Investigator, GeWiss (Volkswagen Foundation) project: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/research-projects/gewiss-spoken-academic-discourse/