Programme (updated June 6)
PRE-REGISTRATION:
Thursday, June 8, Accra Beach Hotel. 7:30-8:30 pm FRIDAY, JUNE 9: 8:00 am-3:00 pm Registration/Secretariat (Khairoon Terrace) 8:30 – 10:00 Opening ceremony 10:00-10:30 Coffee break (Terrace) 10:30–12:00 PANEL I—Caribbean Lexicography I Chair—Romel Springer Jeannette Allsopp – The Challenges of a Caribbean Multilingual Lexicographer Cristiano Furiassi – Reconstructing the Etymology of Rum: Past and Present Findings Jason F. Siegel – Some Moral Obligations of Lexicographers Caroline Myrick—The Importance of Island-Specific Dialect Dictionaries in the Caribbean 12:00 PM —LUNCH 1:15-3:15 PANEL ii—Theoretical Lexicography Chair—Elizabeth Knowles Mark Alan Canada – Teaching Lexicography: Two Approaches Edward Finegan – Philosophies of Lexicographical Usage Notes Robert Lew – Definitions and pictures in a dictionary: Competition or synergy? Alenka Vrbinc – Labelling strategies in a specialized dictionary: The case of OIDLE2 3:15-3:30 Coffee Break (Terrace) 3:30-5:30 PANEL iii—Caribbean Lexicography II Chair—Hélène Zamor Desrine Bogle – Anglophone Caribbean Paremiology: Richard Allsopp’s A Book of Afric Caribbean Proverbs Kellon Sankar – Hall Speak: Using Language Contact and Lexical Borrowing on Halls of Residence to Update Regional Lexicography Lise Winer – Folklore in a Caribbean English Creole Dictionary: Inclusion, Definition and Extraction James Richard Lambert – English Language Lexicography in the Caribbean 7:30-9:00 PM RICHARD ALLSOPP MEMORIAL LECTURE: The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage: A Guiding Light in the Development of Caribbean Lexicography of the Twenty-First Century delivered by Dr. Renata de Bies, University of Suriname. |
SATURDAY, JUNE 10
8:00 am-3:00 pm Registration/Secretariat (Khairoon Terrace) 8:30 – 10:00 PANEL IV—Corpus linguistics Chair—Orin Hargraves Robert Krovetz – Mixed Company: A Comparison between Word Senses and Usages based on Distributional Similarity Stefan Dollinger – Canadian English lexis then and now: insights from DCHP-2 Danko Sipka – Detection of Errors in the Treatment of Multiple Equivalence: A Prolegomenon 10:00-10:15 AM Coffee Break (Terrace) 10:15 – 12:15 PANEL V—Specialised Lexicography Chair—Luanne von Schneidernesser Pilar León Araúz & Prof. Dr. Pamela Faber Benítez – Specialized Thesauri, Geographic Contextualization, and Awareness- Raising Melania Cabezas-García – Inclusion of complex nominals in English specialized dictionaries Antonio San Martín – The contextualization of definitions in specialized lexical resources Marjeta Vrbinc – Labelling strategies in a specialized dictionary: The case of OIDLE2 12:15 LUNCH 1:30-2:30 PANEL VI—Electronic Lexicography Chair—Peter Sokolowski Katherine Martin– A multidialect model for monolingual dictionary data David Williams – OED Under the hood 2:30-2:45 Coffee Break (Terrace) 2:45-4:15 PANEL VII—Collocations Chair—Steven Kleinedler Míriam Buendía Castro & Beatriz Sánchez Cárdenas – Explaining hurricanes from a collocational perspective. You will know by the company they keep Orion Montoya – Discovering multi-synonym distinctions en masse through collocating Modifiers. Ammon Shea – Close reading of large corpora through digital reformatting 4:15-5:15 DSNA GENERAL Meeting SATURDAY PM—6:30-8:30 Reception and Banquet, fig tree restaurant. dress: Elegantly Casual 8:30 PM Post-Banquet activities |
SUNDAY AM 8:30 am-11:00 am Registration/Secretariat (Khairoon Terrace) 8:30-10:30 PANEL VIII—History and dictionaries Chair—David Jost M Lynne Murphy – Language Lovers or linguistic authorities? Contrasts in British and American dictionary cultures Traci Christine Nagle – “It can be edited tenderly”: William Crooke and the revising of Hobson-Jobson Lindsay Rose Russell – The Miriams of Webster: Women Employees at Merriam-Webster, 1864–1961 Krista Williams – Dictionaries and linguistic secession: the case of Occitan 10:30-10:50 Coffee Break (Terrace) 10:50-12:20 PANEL IX—Dictionary coverage Chair—Connie Eble Lisa Berglund – The Literal Contents of Early American Dictionaries Ronald Butters – Killer Tomato End of Conference |
MONDAY
HALF-DAY ISLAND TOUR (US$60) Limited space available. Buses leave Accra Beach Hotel at 8:30 a.m. Please arrive at the hotel lobby no later than 8:10 am. |