FOS: Fw: Corpus linguistics in solidarity with struggles for justice: A methodological reflection on using corpora to examine and critique ideology

[Wagner, Suzanne]

Hello!



I'm reaching out to spread the word about a talk I'm giving next week about corpus linguistic methods and justice-oriented scholarship hosted by the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (LAEL), Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo. Please see the title and abstract directly below. Information on registering for the webinar, which also includes a talk by Robert Beshara<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/scholar.google.com/citations?user=oNa-P4IAAAAJ&hl=en__;!!HXCxUKc!nFktryQJTxFKP2PTwSEtJhWLRnwdlXlajG232dwr8y0LSJphvX-O2EJumARV$>, can be found directly below (link for registration here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wcBAqdgrSwKhgTTmGH58pA__;!!HXCxUKc!nFktryQJTxFKP2PTwSEtJhWLRnwdlXlajG232dwr8y0LSJphvX-O2DJkE46f$>). Please feel free to share this information with friends, colleagues, students, etc. Thank you!



Hope you're safe and well!

Nic



Corpus linguistics in solidarity with struggles for justice: A methodological reflection on using corpora to examine and critique ideology



Does research about language serve social justice ends? Can it? These questions have become increasingly relevant for scholars all over the world who have been watching justice movements begin and grow in response to crises related to genocide, climate, healthcare, policing, land usage, democratic representation, and other things. There is growing awareness among scholars of language that conversations about research methodology are central to conducting scholarship in solidarity with justice movements, but much of this work has focused on predominantly qualitative methodologies such as critical discourse analysis or ethnography (e.g., Warriner & Bigelow, 2019). In this talk, I build on a previous presentation about quantitative research and struggles for justice (YouTube video available here: https://youtu.be/oCfHBPduU34<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/youtu.be/oCfHBPduU34__;!!HXCxUKc!nFktryQJTxFKP2PTwSEtJhWLRnwdlXlajG232dwr8y0LSJphvX-O2BypzUNv$>) to discuss how corpus linguistics, as one type of quantitative or mixed methodology, can be a useful element in a larger justice-oriented research agenda. I argue that, in order to maximize the justice potential of the methodology, corpus linguists must approach their scholarship with its justice implications in mind. In this talk, I present three principles for using corpus linguistics in solidarity with struggles for justice. First, corpus linguists should challenge and reject dominant epistemologies that assert, among other things, that research should be neutral, objective, or apolitical. Second, they should learn to connect the quantities dealt with in corpus linguistics to socially salient understandings of injustice or inequity. Finally, corpus linguists must move beyond a conception of their work as purely and simply concerned with the corpus to understand that the textual data they have collected is made most relevant when put in conversation with other forms of data and scholarship.



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From: Tony Berber-Sardinha <tonycorpuslg at gmail.com<mailto:tonycorpuslg at gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Webinar: Nicholas Subtirelu, Corpus linguistics in solidarity with struggles for justice: A methodological reflection on using corpora to examine and critique ideology (September 28, 2020, 3pm-4pm, São Paulo time, GMT -3); Robert Beshara, Lacanian Discourse Analysis as Critical Discursive Psychology (September 28, 2020, 4pm-5pm, São Paulo time, GMT -3)

Dear all

I'm attaching the call for this webinar -- feel free to forward this to your students and anyone you wish, we'd love to have them take part! And of course if you want to join in as well, that'd be really great.

thank you!

Tony Berber Sardinha

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LAEL Webinars

These sessions are part of a series of webinars hosted by the Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics (LAEL), Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. LAEL is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020.

Contact: Email Claudia Nunes Delfino at claudia at fatecpg.com.br<mailto:claudia at fatecpg.com.br>

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Date: Monday, September 28, 2020

Speaker: Nicholas Subtirelu, Georgetown University, USA
Title: Corpus linguistics in solidarity with struggles for justice: A methodological reflection on using corpora to examine and critique ideology
Time: 3pm-4pm (São Paulo time, GMT -3)

Speaker: Robert Beshara, Northern New Mexico College, USA
Title: Lacanian Discourse Analysis as Critical Discursive Psychology
Time: 4pm-5pm (São Paulo time, GMT -3)

Sign up in advance:
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Attendance is free and open to everyone, but places are limited to the first 500 registrants who enter the Zoom room on the day of the event. Click on the sign-up link above for the talk(s) you want to attend.

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