"Employing multiple case study methods, Ferguson colorfully illustrates and critically examines how social structure, power and ideologies shape policy implementation, focusing on English education in Japanese elementary schools." buff.ly/5QtmXlr

American Psychiatrist Association Statement on White House Announcement on Autism

Featuring a few items available in my print store this week. There's been a fair bit going on during summer but, honestly, I could use a little boost financially right now. So, reposts of the print store posts are welcome. Many thanks. japanorama.darkroom.com/products/124...

🚨New article published! 🟦C. Gardam et al. analyse how conspiracy theories are spread on denial communities. 🟦They draw on a corpus of Instagram posts & propose a visual-first #methodology 🟦They prove the intertextual intermodal nature of posts. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Word of Mouth podcast with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and @jessaiston.bsky.social on language and the ‘manosphere’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #linguistics

Congratulations to my colleagues @elenasemino.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social @juditkormos.bsky.social @jculpeper.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social Alison Mackey & Jason Rothman for being in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2% of scientists list. I’m in good company!

This week's blog post takes a sneak preview to an upcoming chapter on TBLT and student motivation. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/first...

***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW*** “I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University) icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6... #learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE

秋田駅前広場で「秋のビアフェス」　12年続くビール祭が名称改め開催へ ↓ akita.keizai.biz/headline/4000/ #クラフトビール #ビアフェス #秋田県 #秋田市 #秋田 #Akita #Akitacity

In this week's blog, I take a look at a new book that will be published by SielpA Books this coming November. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/intro...

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!

I feel this is a bit misleading. The concept of 'shrinkflation' has existed in Japan for a few years now and has certainly been happening over the past decade or so. What IS new is that consumers now face rising prices on top so face a double whammy.

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online 🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More and more companies have pledged to reach "net zero". But how exactly are these pledges framed in corporate communications, and how credible are they? These are the questions we explore in our new study, just published in Applied Corpus Linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mitsubishi Shoji is withdrawing from major wind power projects off the coast of Akita and Chiba. The firm says projected costs have doubled since it won the bid in 2021. The government will have to put the work out for tender again. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Pivot >> Discourse Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide By Katy Brown @k8ebrown.bsky.social Free to download link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Ian Dunt writing well about asylum hotels etc in the i paper today.

Listen below to hear co-author @grahburton.bsky.social talking about our @candlinmynard.bsky.social book The Big Beasts of English Grammar and grammar issues in general. youtu.be/Zafx24UvFg8?...

‘The Thailand of Europe’: foreigners live holiday dreams in Greece but locals priced out

The Ceremony review – stark, stylish migrant drama exposes a dark side to the Yorkshire Dales

#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

A survivor of an air raid on the city of Akita the night before the end of World War II continues to recount her terrifying experience 80 years ago, expressing regret that the war did not end a day earlier.

Missed out on #CL2025? Four of our wonderful plenary talks are now available to watch on demand! YouTube links on conference website and in replies: www.cl2025.co.uk/home

Back in the UK for a few weeks and thought I would share a few sightings of the Yorkshire dialect I've seen out and about. Ey up! #linguisticlandscape #yorkshiredialect

"What counts?" by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social #CL2025 youtu.be/dcHUftGaSQU?...

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Interesting corpus assisted discourse analysis from The Runnymede Trust looking at language, race, politics and the media. Worth a read: www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’

Interesting article by Cannon-Jones and Wiegand (2025) To what extent can a comedy drama provide a classroom model for natural conversation? A multi-dimensional register analysis of the British series Cold Feet www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

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!

🤏🍃✈️MATCHA SHORTAGES?🍵👋😖 We were recently interviewed by the BBC about how matcha shortages are impacting our business. Only a little of what we talked about made it into the article, so I thought I'd share more of what our tea supplier had to say🙇‍♂️ The article⬇️ www.bbc.com/news/article... #matcha

On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car. #tsunami

Larsson, Kim, & Egbert (2025): We compare two new methods of extracting key lexical bundles (n-grams) + provide the Python script, in case anyone would like to use the methods in their work. The article is available OA for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lVd99sT3h... @jesse-egbert.bsky.social

Probably about 35%+ of all university Humanities posts will be closed. Those subjects will be taught in far fewer universities. There will be a lot less modular choice within those degrees that remain. A large-scale but unannounced policy change from central govt, with far-reaching implications.

So many learner corpora in this list from UCLouvain www.uclouvain.be/en/research-...

秋田の「酒場戸隠」がオリジナルビール　開業55周年で ↓ akita.keizai.biz/headline/3989/ #クラフトビール #酒場戸隠 #秋田県 #秋田市 #秋田 #Akita #Akitacity

We are back on this site!! Follow us if you want to know more about 🔹New articles published in #DCM_Journal 🔹Info on how to publish with us 🔹General information on #MediatedDiscourse

In this week's blog, I give a brief overview of my presentation this weekend and upcoming paper. sielpabooks.com/blog/f/previ...

I met a heron yesterday who struck a pose like he was running for office, so I made him a campaign poster for the upcoming election. As one does.

Here's a "fun" Monday read... 😳😅

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Researchers from universities that include Waseda University in Tokyo have been found to have placed secret prompts in their papers so artificial intelligence-aided reviewers will give them positive feedback.

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...

Ready for the morning sessions @cl2025.co.uk 📚🎓 This time the choice is easy, with our very own talk on using corpora in the EFL classroom, with Caroline Collet, and talks on data-driven learning in context & teacher development. Still would have liked to see all the others, though! 😬 #cl2025

Becoming Reform UK to stave off the threat of Reform UK

Pleased to see the Guardian publish a response to their (misleading) article. Just a shame they didn't consult the extensive academic research into the subject in the first place.

This week's long read is on Bradford, and how schisms led to the formation of two football clubs, while a further one led to two versions of the same sport. unexpecteddelirium.substack.com/p/the-long-r...

Teenager from Hull becomes second Briton ever to join a professional sumo stable

@jtalket.bsky.social I don't know if this is a regular thing but if you Google "J2 League" and find the scores, DAZN have put up match clips for each game which is very handy when in a rush!