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Invited Talks
Gabrielatos, C. & Kormos,
J. (2013). Corpus-based analysis of oral test transcripts: A case study of
conditional constructions. Language Testing Research Group (LTRG), 14 March
2013, Lancaster University. 
Gabrielatos, C. (2012). Corpus-based methodology and (critical)
discourse studies: Context, content, computation. CADS International
Conference, Bologna, Italy, 13-15 September 2012.
Gabrielatos, C. & Marchi, A. (2012).
Keyness: Appropriate metrics and practical issues. CADS International
Conference, Bologna, Italy, 13-15 September 2012.
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C. & McEnery, E.
(2011). The presentation of Muslims in the UK press: A case study of the
adjective Muslim. Invited
presentation. Symposium on Language, Politics and Religion. Lancaster
University, 7 September 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. (2011). Construction Grammar vs. Lexical Grammar: A
case study of the modal load in if-conditionals. Invited presentation. International
Symposium On The Sociology Of Words: Lexical Meaning,
Combinatorial Potential and Computational Implementation. LACELL,
University of Murcia, Spain, 1-2 December 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. (2011). Collocational approaches to critical
discourse studies: A case of critical corpus lexicography. Invited round table
presentation. International Symposium On The Sociology Of Words: Lexical
Meaning, Combinatorial Potential and Computational Implementation. LACELL,
University of Murcia, Spain, 1-2 December 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. (2011). Corpora and Sociolinguistics: Studying
linguistic innovators. Invited presentation. UCREL Summer School in
Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK, 13-15 July 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. (2011). Corpora and language teaching. Invited presentation. Conference for Teachers of A Level English Language,
Department
of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, 1 July 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. & Marchi, A. (2011). Keyness:
Matching metrics to definitions. Invited presentation. Corpus Linguistics in the South: Theoretical-methodological challenges in corpus approaches to discourse
studies - and some ways of addressing them. University of Portsmouth, 5
November 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. (2010). Compiling
topic-specific corpora from limited-access online databases. Invited
presentation. Corpus Linguistics Advanced Research Education and Training (CLARET), Lancaster University, 24 May
2010.
Gabrielatos, C. & Torgersen, E. (2010).
Gender differentiation in the
Linguistic Innovators Corpus: Grammatical and pragmatic features. Invited
presentation. Gender and Corpus
Linguistics, seminar organised by the BAAL Gender and Language SIG, 30
March 2010, Lancaster University.
Baker, P. & Gabrielatos,
C. (2009). Construction of refugees and asylum seekers in British
newspapers, 1996-2005: A corpus-based approach. Invited presentation. Language Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP) Special
Symposium: “The politics of exclusion” – investigating issues of racism,
anti-Semitism, xenophobia…, 9
February 2009. 
Gabrielatos, C. (2009). Corpus-based methodology and critical
discourse studies: Context, content, computation. Invited presentation. Siena English Language and Linguistics Seminars
(SELLS), University of Siena, 9 November 2009. 
Gabrielatos, C. (2009). From
dictionary user to amateur lexicographer: Possibilities of on-line searches.
Invited lecture. Gresham College, 23 March 2009. 
Gabrielatos, C. (2008). Compiling topic-specific corpora from
limited-access online databases. Invited presentation. Corpus Linguistics Advanced
Research Education and Training (CLARET). Lancaster
University, 31 March 2008.
Gabrielatos, C. (2008). Collocational
analysis as a gateway to critical discourse analysis: The case of the
construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press.
Invited presentation, English Language Institute, University of Michigan, 10
March 2008.
Gabrielatos, C. (2003). Corpora and ELT: Just a fling, or the real
thing? Plenary address. INGED Conference
2003, Ankara, Turkey, 10-12 October 2003.
Gabrielatos, C. (2001). Language teachers: Born or bred? Panel
member. 22nd Annual TESOL
Greece Convention, Athens, Greece, 10-11 March 2001.
Gabrielatos, C. (2001). A Question of function: Teacher questions in
ELT. Invited lecture. Iguana Project 7th
Annual Event, Lamia, Greece, 10-11 February 2001.
Gabrielatos, C. (2001). Language and communication. Departmental
lecture. University of Indianapolis, Athens, Greece, February 2001.
Gabrielatos, C. (2000). Shopping at the ELT supermarket: Principled
decisions and practices. Plenary address. 8th
Annual TESOL Macedonia-Thrace Convention, University of Macedonia,
Thessaloniki, Greece, 13-15 October 2000.
Gabrielatos, C. (2000). The Coursebook as a flexible tool. Invited
seminar. TESOL Greece Special Event:
Issues in ELT: Persistent Problems, Practical Solutions, Hellenic American
Union, Athens, Greece, 22 October 2000.
Gabrielatos, C. (2000). Translation in language teaching: Problems
and opportunities. Invited lecture, University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece,
4 October 2000.
Gabrielatos, C. (2000). Translation in TEFL: Problems and
opportunities. Invited lecture. IATEFL
Greece Event: Ways Ahead in TEFL, Agrinio,
Greece, 15 April 2000.
Gabrielatos, C. (2000). Phonological features of English and EFL
listening. Invited lecture. University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece, 29 March
2000.
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Language interpretation. Invited lecture.
University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece, 3 December 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Grammar teaching: A new perspective. Invited
lecture. IATEFL Greece Event: Ways Ahead
in ELT, Athens, Greece, 28 November 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Time, tense and aspect: Implications for the
teaching of ‘tenses’. Invited lecture. TESOL
Greece Mini-Convention, Athens, Greece, 31 October 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Inference: Clues and procedures. Invited
lecture. University of Indianapolis Athens, Greece, 20 October 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Cooking and the language teacher. Invited
lecture. Iguana Project 5th
Annual Event, Lamia, Greece, 6-7 February 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1997). Receptive skills development with
mixed-ability young learners. Invited lecture. Seminar organised by the
Ministry of Education and the British Council, Athens, Greece, September 1997.
Gabrielatos, C. (1995). We co-ordinate, we meet, we talk to parents!
What more can we do? Managing resources effectively. Panel discussion organised
by Oxford University Press, Athens, Greece, October 1995.
Conference Papers
Gabrielatos, C. (2011). If-conditionals in ICLE and the BNC: A
language teaching success story? Learner Corpus Research 2011,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-17 September 2011.
Gabrielatos, C. (2011). If-conditionals and modality: A
corpus-based investigation. Corpus Linguistics 2011,
Birmingham, UK, 20-22 July 2011.
Gabrielatos, C., Baker, P. & McEnery, T. (2010). Using Sketch Engine to examine the presentation of Islam and Muslims in
the UK press. 43rd Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied
Linguistics (BAAL), 9-11 September 2010, University of Aberdeen.
Gabrielatos, C. & Torgersen, E. (2009).
A corpus-based sociolinguistic analysis of indefinite article use in London
English. ICAME 30, Lancaster, UK, 27-31 May 2009.
Torgersen, E. & Gabrielatos, C. (2009). A corpus-based
study of indefinite article and invariant tag use in spoken London English. CLAVIER 2009, University of Modena,
Italy, 4-6 November 2009.
Torgersen, E. & Gabrielatos, C. (2009). A corpus-based
study of invariant tags in London English. Corpus
Linguistics 2009, University of Liverpool, 21-23 July 2009.
Baker, P., Gabrielatos,
C. & McEnery, T. (2008). Using collocational profiling to investigate the
construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press. 7th Conference of the American
Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008),
Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah, 13-15 March 2008. [Abstract: (pp. 18-19); slides ]
Baker, P. & Gabrielatos,
C. (2008). Representations of Islam in the British and American press
1999-2005. 7th Conference of
the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008),
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 13-15 March 2008. [Abstract: (pp. 17-18); slides 
]
Baker, P., McEnery, T. & Gabrielatos, C. (2007). Using collocation analysis to reveal the construction
of minority groups: The case of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the
UK press. Corpus Linguistics 2007,
University of Birmingham, 28-30 July 2007.
Gabrielatos, C. (2007). If-conditionals
as modal colligations: A corpus-based investigation. Corpus Linguistics 2007, University of
Birmingham, UK, 28-30 July 2007.
Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2006). Representation of refugees and asylum
seekers in UK newspapers:
Towards a corpus-based analysis. Joint Annual Meeting
of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the Irish Association
for Applied Linguistics (BAAL/IRAAL 2006): From
Applied Linguistics to Linguistics Applied: Issues, Practices, Trends, University College,
Cork, Ireland, 7-9 September 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. (2006). Corpus-based evaluation of pedagogical
materials: If-conditionals in ELT
coursebooks and the BNC. 7th
Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TALC 2006), organised by the Department of
Intercultural Studies and Applied Languages, University Paris 7 Denis Diderot,
Paris, France, 1-4 July 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2006). Representation
of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a corpus-based
comparison of the stance of tabloids and broadsheets. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) 2006,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 29-30 June 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. (2005). Elliptical and discontinuous if-conditionals:
co-text, context, inference and intuitions. Corpus
Linguistics 2005, University of Birmingham, 15-17 July 2005.
Gabrielatos, C. (2003). What does it mean? Why does it mean? How does
it mean? INGED Conference 2003,
Ankara, Turkey, 10-12 October 2003.
Gabrielatos, C. (2003). Conditional sentences: ELT typology and
corpus evidence. 36th Annual
BAAL Meeting, University of Leeds, UK, 4-6 September 2003.
Gabrielatos, C. (2003). Teaching the expression of time: A concise
framework. 37th International
Annual IATEFL Conference, Brighton Conference Centre, UK, 22-26 April 2003.
Gabrielatos, C. (2003). Conditionals in ELT: From zero to mixed … and
back again. 24th Annual TESOL Greece Convention, Hellenic American Union, Athens,
Greece, 15-16
March 2003.
Gabrielatos, C. (2002). The shape of the language teacher. Biannual IATEFL SIG Symposium, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 September 2002.
Gabrielatos, C. (2002). The shape of the language teacher. 36th IATEFL Conference,
University of York, UK, 23-27 March 2002.
Gabrielatos, C. (2002). Making sense of ‘tenses’: Practical help from
theory. 23rd Annual TESOL
Greece Convention, Athens, Greece, 9-10 March 2002.
Gabrielatos, C. (2001). The power of language: Sources and uses. 22nd Annual TESOL Greece
Convention, Athens, Greece, 10-11 March 2001.
Gabrielatos, C. (2000). The shape of the language teacher. 21st Annual TESOL Greece
Convention, Athens, Greece, 20-21 May 2000.
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Receptive skills: Discourse and
psycholinguistic perspectives. TESOL
Greece 20th Anniversary Convention, Athens, Greece, 20-21 March
1999.
Gabrielatos, C. & Bower, S. (1999). FCE listening: Guidance and
feedback. TESOL Greece 20th
Anniversary Convention, Athens, Greece, 20-21 March 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1998). Translation impossibilities. 19th Annual TESOL Greece
Convention, Athens, Greece, 4-5 April 1998.
Gabrielatos, C. (1998). Receptive skills development with young
learners. 2nd IATEFL Greece
Symposium, Athens, Greece, 8 March 1998.
Gabrielatos, C. (1997). A Question of function: Teacher questions in
the EFL classroom. 18th Annual
TESOL Greece Convention, Training Centre of the National Bank of Greece,
Glyfada, Greece, 12-13 April 1997.
Gabrielatos, C. (1997). Teachers’ perception of theory and research:
Nature and utility. 1st IATEFL
Greece Symposium, Athens, Greece, March 1997.
Gabrielatos, C. (1996). Developing reading skills: Beyond the task. 17th Annual TESOL Greece
Convention, Athens, Greece, April 1996.
Kozanoglou, D. & Gabrielatos,
C. (1993). Old and new eyes on ESP. 14th
Annual TESOL Greece Convention, Athens, Greece, April 1993.
Research Groups
Gabrielatos, C. & Kormos, J. (2012).
Corpus-based analysis of the use of the present progressive construction in
oral language proficiency exams. Joint session of the Second Language Learning and Teaching Research Group (SLLAT) and the Language
Testing Research Group (LTRG), 2 May 2012, Lancaster University.
Gabrielatos, C., McEnery, T, Diggle, P.
& Baker, P. (2011). The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual
analysis. UCREL
Corpus Research Seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language,
Lancaster University, 23 May 2011.
Gabrielatos, C., (2010). The presentation of Islam and Muslims in the UK
press, 1998-2009: Identifying topics through detailed wordlist analysis. Joint
meeting of the Language Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP) and the UCREL
Corpus Research Seminar, Department of Linguistics and English Language,
Lancaster University, 21 June 2010.
Gabrielatos, C. & Torgersen, E. (2010).
Gender differentiation in the
Linguistic Innovators Corpus: Grammatical and pragmatic features. UCREL Corpus Research Seminar, 8 March
2010, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University.
Torgersen, E. & Gabrielatos,
C. (2009). A corpus-based study of invariant tags in London English. Corpus Research
Group (CRG), Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster
University, UK, 2 March 2009.
Gabrielatos, C. (2008). If-conditionals, modality, and Schrödinger’s
cat. RITL Research Group (Research in
Theoretical Linguistics), Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, 27 November 2008.
Gabrielatos, C. & Torgersen, E. (2008).
A corpus-based analysis of indefinite article use in London English. Joint
meeting of the Corpus Research Group
and the Language Variation and Change
Research Group, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster
University, 23 June 2008.
Gabrielatos, C. (2007). Representation of refugees and asylum seekers
in UK newspapers, 1996-2005: Report on the corpus-based analysis. Joint meeting
of the Corpus Research Group (CRG) and the Language Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP), Department of
Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, 26 March 2007.
Gabrielatos, C. (2006). Selecting query terms to build a specialised
corpus from a well-defined, limited-access database. Meeting of the Corpus Research Group (CRG), Department of Linguistics
and English Language, Lancaster University, UK, 30 October 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. (2006). Towards quantifying ‘quality’ in the press:
Comparing the stance of UK broadsheets
and tabloids towards refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. Joint meeting of the Corpus
Research Group (CRG) and the Language, Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP),
Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, 13 June 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. (2006). If-conditionals
as modality attractors. Corpus
Linguistics Research Group (CRG),
Departments of Linguistics and Computing, Lancaster University, 20 March 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. (2004). If-conditionals
in ELT materials and the BNC: Corpus-based evaluation of pedagogical materials.
Corpus
Linguistics Research Group (CRG), Departments of Linguistics and Computing, Lancaster University, 26 April
2004. 
Gabrielatos, C. (2003). Teaching the expression of time: A concise
framework. Second Language Acquisition Research Group (SLARG), Department of
Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, UK, 1 July 2003.
Publishers’ Exhibitions
Gabrielatos, C. (1999). Inference: How it works. 16th
International Publishers’ Exhibition, Athens, Greece, 9 May 1999.
Gabrielatos, C. (1998). Grammar teaching: A discourse perspective.
The Publishers’ Exhibition (Longman and Oxford University Press), 10 May 1998.
Gabrielatos, C. (1998). Grammar teaching: A discourse perspective. 15th
International Publishers’ Exhibition, Athens, Greece, 17 May 1998
Kozanoglou, D. & Gabrielatos, C. (1997). You asked for
it, now you have to use it. 14th International Publishers’
Exhibition, Athens, Greece, May 1997.
Gabrielatos, C. (1996). Come again? Phonology for listening. 13th
International Publishers’ Exhibition, Athens, Greece, May 1996.