Reading Concordances in the 21st Century

In this guest post, Susan Hunston, a Professor at the University of Birmingham and member of the RC21 advisory board, and Sui Xin from Capital Normal University in Beijing present their talk from the ICAME 45 conference, bridging the gap between concordance reading and linguistic theory. It is sometimes really frustrating that a single observed … Continue reading “Susan Hunston and Sui Xin. Accounting for what is observed in concordance lines”

In this guest post, Laurence Anthony, Professor at Waseda University (Japan) and a member of the RC21 advisory board, summarizes his talk on concordance reading at ICAME 45 conference and discusses the future of this technique. In the RC21 workshop at the ICAME 45 conference held in Vigo, Spain, I had the honor and pleasure … Continue reading “Laurence Anthony. Breaking New Ground: AI-Enhanced Concordance Analysis”

Concordance reading is a cornerstone of corpus linguistics, facilitating in-depth analysis and interpretation of linguistic data. This topic was the focus of a pre-workshop held on July 18, 2024, as part of the 45th ICAME conference in Vigo. The workshop, organized by the Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) project team, featured six presentations … Continue reading “Diversity and Innovation in Concordance Organization and Interpretation: Workshop at ICAME45”