ICAME 29 is organised by the Department of English of the University of Zurich and located on Monte Verita in Ascona, Switzerland.

This year's special topic is Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse.

Plenary Speakers

Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University: "Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing"

Thomas Kohnen, University of Cologne: "Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts"

Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster: "Moral Panic? Representations of Islam in the British and American press 1999-2005"

Anna-Britta Stenström, University of Bergen: "Corpus-based contrastive pragmatics: Perspectives from youth language"

Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki: "Corpus-linguistic approaches to changing thought styles: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning in Early Modern medical discourse"

Poster Sessions

Conference Schedule (PDF File) updated May 5

Panel on "Frequency in Corpora"

Organized by Joybrato Mukherjee
Participants: Marianne Hundt, Stefan Gries and Sebastian Hoffmann
Friday, May 16, 14.30-16.30

Workshop: Automatic Annotation in Corpus Linguistics

Organized by Hans Martin Lehmann, Nelleke Oostdijk and Gerold Schneider