Our colleagues, Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado & Prof. Anne O’Connor, co-presented a paper titled “Tweeting in Tongues: A Multilingual Religious Corpus on Social Media” at the 14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC2023) at the University of Oviedo in Spain in May 2023.
The theme of the conference was Corpus Linguistics in the Digital Era: Genres, Registers and Domains. Most studies based on or derived from corpora, implicitly or explicitly, dealt with the notion of genre, and other concepts such as those of register and domain. In Corpus Linguistics, the importance of these concepts has been repeatedly highlighted in studies by Douglas Biber and other linguists working in the field of Corpus Linguistics. This is the reason why the theme selected for the conference was Corpus Linguistics in the digital era, with especial reference to the analysis of genres, registers and domains. The conference also catered for other themes such as the analysis of genres, registers and domains in Applied Linguistics and statistical analyses.
Prof. O’Connor said: “It was great to be able to present some of the initial work from the PIETRA project on multilingual corpus building with @anna_furtado at the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics in the beautiful city of Oviedo. Lots of really interesting exchanges of ideas #cilcxiv.”
