Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked 2nd in the world in the latest QS rankings! www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social
So exciting to see the latest title in the Corpus and Discourse series out now! I really enjoyed reading Viola's book, and I'm sure you all will too! @michamahlberg.bsky.social
I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?
OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse
Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do!
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Here's a recent book publication involving CRAL! Alongside Dr. Jason Whitt's work, editors Dr. Gavin Brookes and Dr. Emma Putland received their PhDs at UoN. Feel free to check out the book and Jason Whitt's staff profile via the links in bio.
#uoncral #appliedlinguistics #research #medicaldiscourse
New paper with @alicedeignan.bsky.social & @duygucandarli.bsky.social: 'Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials'. We show the difficulties that 10-12yo children can have with unfamiliar metaphorical uses of words in school.
www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
In the Manchester area and free this afternoon?
Join Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social for a lecture organised by @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social .
Find all the details and free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-sen...
#digitalhumanities #language #stories #lecture #ManchesterCity
Gavin Brookes
Join the UCL Health Communication Network on March 17th for a talk by Dr Beth Malory: ‘British news media representations of the 2022 and 2024 mpox outbreaks: a corpus-assisted study’
More info and the link here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/health-comms...
Gavin Brookes
Dr. Holly Walters
IJCL
Today is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (UN)!
Feel free to read more on this day and visit Dr Małgorzata Chałupnik's staff profile via the link in bio.
#uon #cral #culturaldiversity #communication #un #research #researchcentre #appliedlinguistics
Abstract Metaphor is used as a tool for communicating specialist knowledge to non-specialists in popular discourse and in educational contexts. Research has explored its use in higher education, but l...
Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked second in the world with ten other subjects in the world top 100, according to new rankings released today.
Today is the official publication day for the hardback version of "Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora" (ebook was published earlier). Many thanks to series editors @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for your support 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is define…
