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Alam, Z. (2001) Gender representation in academic lectures. MA dissertation, University of Warwick.

Bloor, M. and Bloor, T. (2007) The Practice of Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Hodder Arnold.

Cutting, J. (2001) Pragmatics and Discourse. Oxford : Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

Endacott, N. (1999) An investigation and comparison of the origins, rhetorical purposes and linguistic realisations of “other voices” in academic lectures. MA dissertation, University of Warwick.

Endacott, N. (2006) Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Academic Discourse: Tracking the Management of Intertextuality in Undergraduate Lectures. PhD thesis. University of Stirling.

Halliday , M.A.K. & Greaves, W.S. (2006) Intonation in the Grammar of English, London : Equinox.

Nesi, H. (2001) 'A corpus based analysis of academic lectures across disciplines', in: Cotterill, J. and Ife, A. (eds) Language Across Boundaries, London: Continuum Press 201-218

Nesi, H (2001) EASE: a multimedia materials development project. In: Cameron, K. (ed) C.A.L.L. – The Challenge of Change. Exeter: Elm Bank Publications 287-292

Nesi, H. (2002) ‘An English spoken academic word list', in Braasch, A. and Provlsen, C. (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth EURALEX International Congress, Copenhagen: Center for Sprogteknologi.

Nesi, H. (2008). Corpora & EAP. In: LSP: Interfacing Language with other Realms: Proceedings of the 6th Languages for Specific Purposes International Seminar, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Nesi, H. & Basturkmen, H. (2006) ‘Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (Special issue on Cohesion, M. Mahlberg and J. Flowerdew eds.) 11 (3) 147-168.

Othman, Z. (2007) An exploratory study of discourse markers: their distribution, meanings and uses in a corpus of academic lectures. PhD thesis, University of Lancaster.

Thompson, P. (2006) 'A corpus perspective on the lexis of lectures, with a focus on Economics lectures' in Hyland, K. and Bondi, M. (eds) Academic Discourse Across Disciplines Bern: Peter Lang.

Thompson, P. and Nesi, H. (2001) The British Academic Spoken English (BASE) Corpus Project. Language Teaching Research 5 (3) 263-264

Thompson, P. 2006 A corpus perspective on the lexis of lectures, with a focus on Economics lectures. In K. Hyland and M. Bondi (eds) Academic Discourse across Disciplines. Bern: Peter Lang, pp 253-270

Wang, Y. (2006) The importance of being humorous: a study of humour in English university lectures within the BASE corpus. MA dissertation, University of Warwick.

Alam, Z., Nesi, H. and Gardner, S. "She feels, he finds: process type choice and the representation of men and women in a corpus of academic lectures" [Paper presented at ISFC 29, Liverpool, 2002]

Basturkmen, H. "Signalling the relationship between ideas in academic speaking' [Paper presented at the 11th CLESOL Conference , Auckland, New Zealand, 2-4 October 2008]

Choi, YH and Nesi, H. “Sending out the right signals: enumeration as a predictive category in the BASE corpus" [Paper presented at TALC 2000, Graz, Austria, 2000]

Creer, S. and Thompson, P. "Processing Spoken Language Data: The BASE Experience" [Paper presented at a LREC Workshop on Compiling and Processing Spoken Language Corpora, 24th May 2004]

Deroey, K. "Corpus-informed EAP syllabus design: a study of lecture functions". [Paper presented at BAAHE (Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education), Namur, Belgium, November 2009]  

Deroey, K. “A qualitative corpus-based study of lecture functions” [Paper presented at BAAL, Swansea, September 2008]  

Deroey, K. “Corpus-informed EAP course design: a study of lecture functions” [Paper presented at ICAME, Lancaster University, 27 – 31 May 2009]

Deroey, K. "What they highlight is ... The discourse functions of basic wh-clefts in lectures". [Paper presented at the Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool University, 20-23 July 2009]

Deroey, K. ""”. [Paper presented at the 42nd  Annual BAAL Conference, Newcastle University, 3-5 September 2009] Katrien Deroey slides BAAL 2009

Endacott, N. "Linguistic representations of 'other voices' in hard and soft undergraduate lectures" [Paper presented at the BAAL Annual Conference, Cambridge, September 2000]  

Endacott, N. "Present Continuous Aspect & Interaction in Lectures" [Paper presented at the Biennial BALEAP Conference, University of Reading, 5-7 April 2009] 

Endacott, N. “The L-unit: a Methodology for Consistent Segregation of Lecture Discourse” [Poster presented at ICAME, Lancaster University, 27 – 31 May 2009. See also handout] 

Endacott, N. "Constructing Relationships with Disciplinary Knowledge: Continuous Aspect in Reporting Verbs and Disciplinary Interaction in Lecture Discourse". [Paper presented at the Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool University, 20-23 July 2009]

Lin, CY. "The multiple functions of pragmatic force modifiers in academic lectures: a systemic functional approach" [Paper presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, 9-13 July 2007]

Nesi, H. "BASE, BAWE and EASE: how insights from academic corpora have informed the design of an EAP series" [Paper presented at IVACS, Limerick, 2002]

Nesi, H. And Thompson, P. "Building BASE: an introduction to the British Academic Spoken English Corpus" [Paper presented at TALC, Forli, Italy, 2002]

Nesi, H. "The public and the personal in BASE and MICASE lectures: Some culture-specific features" [paper presented at The Conference in Honour of John Swales, Michigan, USA, 22-23 June 2006]

Nesi, H. "Creating search interfaces for BASE and BAWE: the design of a web-based interface" [Paper presented at the BAAL/IRAAL Conference, 'From Applied Linguistics to Linguistics Applied: Issues, Practices, Trends’, University College Cork, 7-9 September 2006]

Nesi, H. "The function of laughter in university lectures" [Paper presented at the 10^th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, 9-13 July 2007]

Nesi, H. “An analysis of laughter episodes in the BASE corpus” [Paper presented at the International Conference on Laughter and Humour in Interaction, University of Huddersfield, 24 – 25 June 2009]

Nesi, H. “What’s so funny? Lecturing styles and student laughter” [Paper presented at the 42nd  Annual BAAL Conference, Newcastle University, 3-5 September 2009]

Preshous, A. "Eliciting acts used in academic seminars" [Paper presented at the BALEAP PIM, University of Warwick, 2001]

Thompson, P. “BASE data: towards insights into spoken academic language” [Keynote address at the 5th IVACS Annual Research Colloquium, Queen's University, Belfast, February 2005]

Thompson, P. and Nesi, H. "What words should we teach?: A corpus-based perspective on the vocabulary of academic lectures" [Paper presented at BALEAP, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, April 2005]

Thompson, P. "Approaching the lexis of academic lectures" [Paper presented at AILA, Madison, WI, USA 25-29 July 2005]

Thompson, P. "The lexis of lectures across the disciplines" [Paper presented at the LSP conference, Bergamo, Italy, August 2005]

Thompson, P. "Re-viewing the Academic Word List: the language of lectures" [Paper presented at BAAL, Bristol, September 2005]Thompson, P. "They have their words yeah - the lexis of lectures" [Paper presented at ESSE 8, London, August 2006]

Thompson, P. "Telling the difference between Economics and Philosophy lectures" [Paper presented at BALEAP PIM, Durham, 19 November 2006]

Wang, Y. “A study of humour in English university lectures within the BASE corpus” [Paper presented at the International Conference on Laughter and Humour in Interaction, University of Huddersfield, 24 – 25 June 2009]