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Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Visiting Academic Fellow
Born in Madras, India
Schooling mainly at Latymer Upper School, London
1967-1970: Jesus College, Cambridge University
1976-1983: School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
1984-2003: Birmingham University, working on the COBUILD project (jointly run by Collins Dictionaries and Birmingham University), as lexicographer and editor on several dictionaries, grammar books, usage books, etc; and as corpus manager (helping to create the 450-million-word Bank of English corpus and other smaller corpora)
1997-2004: freelance consultant; European language projects (Telri/TRACTOR, SENSEVAL, SELECT, ELDA/WBE); dictionary projects (Helicon, Macmillan, Routledge, CUP, xrefer); short courses and international workshops; Research Fellow (Computational Linguistics Group) and Visiting Lecturer at Wolverhampton University; Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham University (Bilingual Panjabi Children’s Corpus; numerous conference presentations (ICAME, LREC, IATEFL, JALT, KOTESOL, Thai-TESOL, Spain-TESOL, Braz-TESOL, TESOL France, ETA-ROC, IWTDIL, etc) and guest lectures at universities
From August 2004 – Lecturer at Aston; Director of ACORN (Aston Corpus Network:
http://acorn.aston.ac.uk
)
Qualifications and Education
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BA/MA French and German (Cambridge)
BA Sanskrit (London)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research Interests
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Lexis
Corpus Linguistics
Lexicography
Collocation
Presentations and Publications
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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
Phone:
0121 204 3812
Email:
r.krishnamurthy@aston.ac.uk
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