After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

#Linguistics 2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers. 1/3

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

An excellent article (use link). Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience. #Deception crestresearch.ac.uk/download/490...

It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again — including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

If you’re going to #CL2025 and interested in either health communication, or methodology papers more broadly, our work here should be of interest. And, more importantly, it’s @janadeclercq.bsky.social’s first corpus conference, so do say hello if you see her! 😉😀

That’s a wrap on #IPrA2025! We organised a panel on regional (im)politeness variation, presented our own work on variation in the USA, and then gave a methods paper looking at discourses of chronic pain from both an interactional sociolinguistics and a CADS perspective. What a great few days. 🇦🇺

The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!

This week I’m in Brisbane for the #IPrA2025 conference. It was straight into it last Saturday, giving a pre-conference workshop on Corpus Pragmatics with participants from 11 countries. A real delight! 🇦🇺

International Pragmatics Conference just kicking off at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Always a great opportunity to pick up conversations with so many friends and colleagues as if no time had passed since we last met.

Thanks to those posting from #ICAME46 this week so we can follow along vicariously. 😀 This workshop yesterday on speech act development sounded really great.

A few photos from Bergen last week during the Association for Business Communication conference where I presented some work on the discourse of corporate wrongdoing. Stunning city with some particularly friendly four-legged residents who don’t seem to mind the chilly summers! 🇳🇴

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography 👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse? 📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more. 🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca... #CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

This CfP for a special issue of Corpus Pragmatics (ed. by P. Madella) looks really great. It promises to make a significant contribution to a more linguistically-informed approach to deception (detection) - something much needed!

New paper out in the International Journal of Business Communication on corporate wrongdoing -- specifically how Boeing navigated the 737 Max crisis a few years ago. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1177/2329...

Travelling to the UK this morning to attend and give a plenary at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics. I’ll be talking about using corpus methods to study variational (im)politeness - really looking forward to being back north for a few days. 😄 mfilconf.wordpress.com

After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/

I was recently interviewed as part of @wuvienna.bsky.social's "Meet our Researchers" series. They put together a nice video about using corpus linguistics to study climate change discourse, based on my paper with Carmen Dayrell. Really happy with how this turned out! www.wu.ac.at/en/research/...

What do you think of when you hear the term "climate change"? Whatever it may be, it's probably partly shaped by the media. WU researcher @mathewgillings.bsky.social has looked into the discourse around climate change in UK newspapers. In our newest video, he shares some interesting results:

One of the architects of LIWC @ryanboyd.io got in touch about our paper – he’s written this blog post about www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan... First we’d like to say that Ryan makes interesting points in his rejoinder and we absolutely welcome this…

My paper with Sylvia Jaworska on methodological triangulation is now out in Applied Corpus Linguistics! We look at how the chosen analytical method affects the identification and labelling of topics in a corpus. How does the amount of available context change interpretation? doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

After 7 months of post-editing and finalising transcription, my chronic pain corpus is finally ready for corpus analysis! It's been a ride! But so happy to be on it with @mathewgillings.bsky.social and Isolde van Dorst! Now on to analyses and then writing.

A really great paper and the first to offer a systematic deconstruction of LIWC, detailing why it fails to stand up to linguistic scrutiny. A definite must read!

Great to be part of this special issue on corpus approaches to business communication! Thanks for all your work @mathewgillings.bsky.social and @susannekopf.bsky.social and congrats to all the authors.

Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

Honoured to receive one of this year’s WU Research Awards for my paper on changing discourses of climate change in the UK press (published w/ Carmen Dayrell). Enjoyed a lovely ceremony last week, even if a little disconcerting seeing myself on the big screen. 😊 academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

New on our blog: Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social explores how expanding concordance lines helps resolve different types of uninterpretable concordances, based on his presentation at our ICAME45 workshop. Read the post here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2024/12/05/r... #RC21 #CorpusLinguistics

Had an enjoyable morning reading through this new discussion piece and its associated commentaries. It does a great job of bringing together the different strands of work and laying out the key criticisms and concerns.

Really great paper here on leave-taking and thanking on buses and how behaviour differs by region (rural/urban), speaker age, gender, etc. Nice to see more work on intra-national variational politeness - well worth a read.

Join us for the Reading Concordances Symposium and Training Day in Erlangen, 19-21 March, 2025! We're offering a one-day course on concordance analysis and a two-day event with invited speakers and a poster session. See here for more: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-conc...

Finally made it over to Bluesky! My corner of X was beginning to feel like a ghost town, so I’m really happy to see friends and colleagues over here growing the community day by day. I could get used to this. 😊