An international conference on Advances in Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Research will be held in Xi’an, China, from October 27-29, 2023. The conference will be hosted by the School of Foreign Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong University, and co-organized with the National Research Center of Foreign Language Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Journal of Foreign Language Education, and Xi’an Jiaotong University Press.

The conference will include pre-conference workshops, keynote speeches, parallel sessions and a forum for graduate students. The theme of the conference is “Advances in Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Research”. Proposals on the application of corpora in humanities and social sciences, translation, foreign language education, medicine, and other fields are especially welcome.

• Topics

1. Corpus approaches to the humanities and social sciences

 2. Corpus-driven/based/assisted/informed discourse studies

 3. Corpus-based translation studies

 4. Corpus linguistics and medical settings

 5. Corpora and foreign language teaching and learning

 6. Cross-fertilisation of corpus linguistics and artificial intelligence

 7. Other corpus linguistics related topics

• Keynote Speeches

1. Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK & Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, co-organizer)

 2. Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan)

 3. Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)

 4. Kaibao Hu (Shanghai International Studies University, China)

 5. Yue Jiang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)

 6. Mark Liberman (University of Pennsylvania, US)

 7. Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK)

 8. Yufang Qian (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China)

 9. Naixing Wei (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

 10. Jiajin Xu (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)

• Workshops

1. Laurence Anthony: Corpus tools for language research

 2. Paul Baker: Corpus-assisted discourse analysis

 3. Gavin Brookes: Research paper writing and publishing

 4. Niall Curry: Corpus Linguistics for TESOL in East Asia

 5. Paul Rayson: Semantic Annotation

• Important Dates

1. First call for papers: April 28, 2023

 2. Second call for papers: May 20, 2023

 3. Last call for papers: July 20, 2023

 4. Abstract submission deadline: August 10, 2023

 5. Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2023

 6. Registration: October 27, 2023

 7. Workshops: October 27, 2023

 8. Conference: October 28-29, 2023

• Abstract Submission

1. Please submit an abstract of about 300 characters in Chinese or 200 words in English.

 2. Submit no more than two papers, and only one paper with you as first author

 3. Scan the following QR code, or go to https://www.wjx.cn/vm/rSxP9aO.aspx# to fill in the registration form. You can also fill in the attached form and send it to the conference email as an attachment.

 4. Note that you always need to fill in the form even if you choose to participate in the conference without delivering a paper.

• Working Language：English

• Registration

1. Registration fee: RMB2,000 yuan/person; 50% discount for graduate students

 2. Card payment must be made by the registration date.

 3. Meals during the conference will be covered by the registration fee; transportation and accommodation are excluded.

• Contact information:

1. Email: xjtuhy2023@163.com

2. Tel:
            Ms. Xu +86-29-82668539
            Ms. Zhang +86-29-82664772
            Ms. Yu +86-29-82663712

Committee of the International Conference on Frontiers of

Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Research (FoCIR)