International Conference on Linguistics and Discourse Prosody

• •    Defining semantic prosody and methodology
  •    Language variation and applied linguistics
  •    The importance of authentic examples
  •    Semantic prosody and transitivity
  •    Semantic prosody as a tool for ironic effect
  •    Irony and/or lack of sincerity
  •    Semantic prosody and specialized corpora
  •    Semantic prosody in scientific texts: cause and consequences
  •    Actively bringing about positive change
  •    Corpus methodology
  •    Theoretical corpus linguistics
  •    The interface between corpus and linguistic theory
  •    Psycholinguistic and cognitive explorations
  •    Lexicology and lexicography
  •    Special uses of semantic prosody