Keynote Speaker
Our keynote speakers are internationally renowned social science and humanities scholars whose ideas and views on the issues of digital humanities will re-imagine and set the tone for MCRS2022
Using corpus techniques in social media research
Michael Barlow, Ph.D.
Michael Barlow received his PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University. He is currently Associate Professor in the Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching Department at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where he teaches courses on Corpus Studies in Applied Linguistics and Computer-Assisted Language Learning. He has created several text analysis programs including two concordancers, MonoConc and ParaConc, and a collocation extraction program called Collocate. A new program, WordSkew, facilitates the analysis of written and spoken discourse. Dr. Barlow has written books and articles related to the use of corpora in theoretical and applied linguistics and he regularly gives keynotes and workshops at institutions and conferences around the world.
Michael is no stranger to MCRN, having delivered the keynote for the UMCLIC2020 - the 2020 edition of the MCRN Symposium. It is an honour and pleasure to have him deliver the keynote for MCRS2022
Michael Barlow, Ph.D.
Michael Barlow received his PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University. He is currently Associate Professor in the Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching Department at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where he teaches courses on Corpus Studies in Applied Linguistics and Computer-Assisted Language Learning. He has created several text analysis programs including two concordancers, MonoConc and ParaConc, and a collocation extraction program called Collocate. A new program, WordSkew, facilitates the analysis of written and spoken discourse. Dr. Barlow has written books and articles related to the use of corpora in theoretical and applied linguistics and he regularly gives keynotes and workshops at institutions and conferences around the world.
Michael is no stranger to MCRN, having delivered the keynote for the UMCLIC2020 - the 2020 edition of the MCRN Symposium. It is an honour and pleasure to have him deliver the keynote for MCRS2022
Featured Speaker
Sex differences on a forum about anxiety
Paul Baker, PhD
Professor Paul Baker works at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies and language and identity. He brings fresh perspectives on many social and humanities issues using corpus based critical discourse analysis. His books include: Using Corpora to Analyse Gender (2014), Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes (2013), Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (2010), Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality (2008), Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2006), Public Discourses of Gay Men (2005) and Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2002). He is also the commissioning editor for the journal Corpora.
Paul Baker, PhD
Professor Paul Baker works at the Department of Linguistics and English Language of Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies and language and identity. He brings fresh perspectives on many social and humanities issues using corpus based critical discourse analysis. His books include: Using Corpora to Analyse Gender (2014), Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes (2013), Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics (2010), Sexed Texts: Language, Gender and Sexuality (2008), Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2006), Public Discourses of Gay Men (2005) and Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2002). He is also the commissioning editor for the journal Corpora.
GALE PLENARY SPEAKERS
MCRS2022 has secured the participation of some of the most exciting researchers in corpus linguistics and digital humanities in the ASEAN region
Raksangob Wijitsopon is an associate professor in English at Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. Currently, she is also Deputy Director of the English as an International Language Program (EIL) (MA/ PhD) (Interdisciplinary & International Program). She is particularly interested in using a corpus linguistic approach to analysis of texts of various kinds, ranging from prose fiction (especially classic works), news, magazine columns, learner essays, to translations, etc. She is especially keen on the English language-literature interface, as well as connecting studies of English language and literature to the real world for English major studies. |
Nor Fariza Mohd Nor, is an Associate Professor at the Center of Research for Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Malaysia (UKM). She received her Ph.D degree in Applied Linguistics from University of Malaya and Master degree in English for Specific Purpose
from the University of Warwick, U.K. Her Bachelor (Hons) degree is in Modern English Language and Education, from the University of Lancaster, U.K. Nor Fariza is actively involved in research. Her main research includes work in discourse and critical discourse studies, such as work on the Malaysian Hansard corpus, newspaper and social media corpus. She has recently been working on discourse studies by combining critical approach with topic modelling and word embedding approaches. She is currently involved in research in Digital Humanities and data analytics (social science perspective). She was the Editor-in- Chief for GEMA Online Journal. of Language Studies. The journal is indexed in established databases such as Elsevier (Scopus), ESCI (WoS), DOAJ, Wiley-Blackwell, EBSCO, Linguist List, Asean Citation Index and Islamic World Citation Center. She has published extensively, both in local and international journals, which include ISI, Scopus, referred and indexed journals in her area of expertise. Nor Fariza is a member of Malaysian Applied Linguistics Association and GLoCALL. |
Dr. Prihantoro earned his PhD from Lancaster University and is affiliated with Universitas Diponegoro, Indonesia. He manages some corpora in CQPweb Lancaster. He is the author of SANTI-morf (a morphological annotation system) and Buku Referensi Pengantar Linguistik Korpus (Introduction to corpus linguistics book, written in Indonesian). Reach him via [email protected]. |
Siti Aeisha Joharry holds a PhD in linguistics from The University of Sydney, Australia. In 2017, she joined Akademi Pengajian Bahasa, UiTM Shah Alam, Malaysia where she is currently the programme coordinator (Penyelaras) for the English for Professional Communication Bachelors Programme and resource person for a postgraduate course on corpus linguistics. She is part of the steering committee for the Malaysian Corpus Research Network (MCRN) that hosts monthly webinars on corpus research in Malaysia and also part of the international advisory board for the Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University in South Korea. She can be found on both Linkedin and ResearchGate. |