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Panel chaired by Gavin Brookes (@GavinBrookes26).
A comparative study of the discourse of Voice Output Communication Aids users’ with and without their aids in the workplace.
Julie Bouchard – Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Laura Di Ferrante – Sapienza Università di Roma
@juliebouchard02
http://www.uqac.ca/portfolio/julie2bouchard/
laura.diferrante@uniroma1.it
@ladiferro
[long paper]
Evaluation of medication safety oversight programs in the United States using corpus linguistics methods
Carmen Dayrell – Lancaster University
Darren M. Triller – WellScriptEd Consulting
Youssef Bessada – Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Science
Elena Semino – Lancaster University
c.dayrell@lancaster.ac.uk
@carmendayrell
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/people-profiles/carmen-dayrell
dtriller@WellScriptEdConsulting.com
youssef.bessada@acphs.edu
e.semino@lancaster.ac.uk
@elenasemino
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/Elena-Semino
[long paper]
Personalising stock responses: A corpus-based study of ‘mixed’ replies to patient feedback on the NHS Choices website ★
Craig Evans – Lancaster University
[long paper]
Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2020 
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Fascinating talk by Julie and Laura – understanding how the devices are used in authentic situations seems an essential part of their development. Do you have the opportunity to report back to the types of people who are responsible for designing and manufacturing them?
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Fascinating talk Julie and Laura – understanding how the devices are used in authentic interactions seems key to how they are developed. Do you have the opportunity to report back to people who design and/or manufacture them?
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Hi! I have a question for Craig Evans. Very interesting presentation! I also found the recap-self-promotion link particularly insightful. I was wondering how the themes were classified. Some of the categories seem to be susceptible of overlapping, for example well-wishing and speech acts. I have a similar problem with the classification of topics in workplace discourse, so I was wondering if you could offer more details on how the keywords were assigned to different themes. Thank you so much!
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Hi. Thank you for your kind comment about my presentation. I must say, I thoroughly enjoyed your talk and think your research is both fascinating and important. About my keyword categories: My rationale for distinguishing ‘getting well’ from ‘speech acts’ was that I felt there were enough keywords representing convalescence that meant they merited their own category. Of course, you are right, the two categories could have been merged. However, I felt there was enough of a difference between meaning and function to justify separate categories despite the overlap. For example, the ‘speech act’ keywords represent speech acts in lexicalised form (e.g. congratulations) or indicate a speech act category (e.g. compliment), whereas the ‘getting well’ words tend to be representations of the idea of getting well, even though in practice they also happen to constitute a well-wishing speech act. The fact is that deciding thematic categories is a very qualitative process, and I suspect several researchers working with the same keywords would likely identify different themes. Hope this answers your question.
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By the way, I should also say – in light of reading comments in other panels – that my inferences about the meaning and function of keywords when determining themes is, as a matter of routine, based on reviewing sample concordances, i.e. based on how the words are used in the corpus.
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Makes sense. Thank you so much!
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