Ramesh Krishnamurthy

• BA/MA French and German (Cambridge)
• BA Sanskrit (London)
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy
  

• Lexis
• Corpus Linguistics
• Lexicography
• Collocation
  

Recent Presentations

• 2008: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia: Using the ACORN (Aston Corpus Network) corpora for pedagogic purposes
• 2008: University of Wolverhampton: The ACORN (Aston Corpus Network) project - helps you to learn language, academic skills... and Computer Science?
• 2007: Herder-Institut, Universität Leipzig: English for Academic Purposes, corpora and ACORN (Aston Corpus Network)
• 2007: English Teachers Association of Switzerland conference, Solothurn: ACORN (the Aston Corpus Network
• 2007: BALEAP conference (with Iztok Kosem): The missing link between native-speaker and learners’ dictionaries? The need for an EAP dictionary
• 2007: Corpus Linguistics conference (with Iztok Kosem): A New Venture in Corpus-Based Lexicography: towards a Dictionary of Academic English
• 2007: Imperial College, London: Corpus-Driven Dictionaries
• 2007: University of Sheffield: Corpora - from language description and lexicography to language teaching and learning: the ACORN (Aston Corpus Network) project
• 2007: University of West of England: Lexical Discoveries from Corpora
• 2007: University of Portsmouth: From Corpus-Driven-Dictionaries to Corpus-Driven-Language-Learning
• 2005: JALT Conference, Shizuoka: Teaching and learning English metaphors
• 2005: National Taiwan Normal University/Taiwan Association of Translation and Interpretation, Taipei: Corpora and Translation
• 2005: National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan): Corpus Construction: Principles, Practices, and Problems
• 2005: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics (Nankang, Taiwan): Metaphor and its neglect in language teaching
• 2005: National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan): Corpora and Dictionaries

Recent Publications

• (in press) P. Larrivée & R.Krishnamurthy: La créativité et la conventionnalité de groupes nominaux atypiques déterminatn + pronom indéfini et leurs contextes communicatifs, in Actes de Represéntations du sens linguistique IV, Mémoires de la Sociéte Néophilologique de Helsinki
• (in press) R. Grundmann & R. Krishnamurthy: The Discourse of Climate Change: A Corpus based approach,  in CADAAD Journal.
• 2008: Corpus-driven Lexicography, International Journal of Lexicography 21/3, 231-242
• 2007: R. Krishnamurthy & Iztok Kosem: Issues in creating a corpus for EAP pedagogy and research; Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Oxford: Elsevier
• 2007: Iztok Kosem & R. Krishnamurthy: A New Venture in Corpus-Based Lexicography: towards a Dictionary of Academic English, in Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2007
• 2007: (Co-Editor with W. Teubert) Corpus Linguistics (6 volumes), Critical Concepts in Linguistics series, London: Routledge
• 2007: (with Wolfgang Teubert): Introduction, pp 1-37 in Corpus Linguistics (6 volumes), Critical Concepts in Linguistics series, London: Routledge
• 2005: Corpus-Driven Lexicography; 2005: Corpus-Driven Lexicography; Concordances; Collocation; in Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edn), Oxford: Elsevier
• 2004: Burning questions, but no burning answers: collocation and idiomaticity, pp 207-219 in KOTESOL 2002 Proceedings, ed R.J. Dickey, Seoul: KOTESOL
• 2004: (Editor)English collocation studies: The OSTI Reportby John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley, London: Continuum Books
• 2004: COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary CD-Rom (Pronunciation Recording Manager), Glasgow: HarperCollins
• 2004: Language Corpora on Computer and Dictionaries on CD-Rom pp 207-216 in KOTESOL Proceedings 2001, eds D.E. Shaffer & R.J. Dickey, Seoul: KOTESOL