The international symposium on Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies is sponsored jointly by Zhejiang University, University of Central Lancashire, Beijing Foreign Language Studies, Shandong University, and Lancaster University, with the aim of exploring the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation studies. The first conference will be held at Zhejiang University in the scenic city of Hangzhou, China.

Time and Venue:

25th-27th September, 2008

Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University

Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Peoples R China

Keynote speakers

Michael Barlow ( Auckland University )

Silvia Bernardini ( Bologna University )

Defeng Li ( Shandong University / SOAS, University of London )

Tony McEnery ( Lancaster University )

Kefei Wang ( Beijing Foreign Studies University )

Themes

We invite papers that are related to, but not restricted to, the following themes:

•  Design and development of comparable and parallel corpora

•  Processing of multilingual corpora

•  Using corpora in translation studies and teaching

•  Using corpora in cross-linguistic contrast

•  Corpus-based comparative research of source native language, translated language and target native language

•  Corpus-based research of interface between contrastive and translation studies

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Conference language

English

Presentation format

Papers are allocated to 20-minute slots plus five minutes of discussion.

Conference fees

Participants from outside China : 150 GBP, or 300 USD

Participants from China : 900 yuan

Conference publication

At least one author per paper is required to register for the paper to be included for publication. The template for full paper will be sent together with the notification of acceptance.

Conference proceedings will be published online after the conference. Selected papers will be published in an edited volume with Routledge and/or in a special issue of Languages in Contrast .

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