New Cambridge Element, Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption, by Matteo Fuoli @MatteoFuoli, Adam Nix, Alicia Wickert and Annina Van Riper, out now! Read Open Access at https://cup.org/4adpaWK #openaccess #languageandlinguistics #LangSky

Love this: Soup is 'central heating for the soul' @valmcdermid.bsky.social #winter

This is my first book, and I’m feeling genuinely happy and grateful. I owe a great deal to many, especially @paulari.bsky.social, @tonymcenery.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social whose guidance and encouragement shaped this work in important ways.

Great company on my commute back!

Check out Viola's book on surveillance discourses - it is the latest addition to the Corpus and Discourse series, and I highly recommend it!

Very proud of this paper which is based on work by three brilliant MA students here at Sussex. They were an exceptional team to lead and they all learnt so much about how to do research by doing research

Brilliant new article on the framing of water in corporate communication - just out on our Vol.9 @jcads.bsky.social

One for my next commute

Commute listen 🎧: the wonderful @valmcdermid.bsky.social reading (and singing) a contribution by the wonderful Ali Smith in the collection "Imagine a country" open.spotify.com/episode/32lS... and giving a damn ✊

“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’ Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future. --- And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires...

Huge pro-Palestine protest - said to be 1 million strong -- right in front of my house in #Rome earlier today. The marching went on for hours.

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

The numbers of yesterday's strike for Gaza (since the @theguardian.com got the size - among other things - quite wrong): protests in more than 100 cities all over Italy, 2 million people marching, in some sectors 90% of workers on strike #FreePalestine #LetGazaLive #StopGenocide

#Bologna today, general strike: 150,000 people marching for #Palestine and demanding #StopGenocide. Israel blocked the #GSF humanitarian mission, we block everything!

Tomorrow I'll be joining the general strike to protest the Israeli genocide in Palestine and the illegal assault of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Come raise your voice to break the government's silence!

Writing lecturers will not reach students by simply talking down AI, but we might reach them by embracing our expertise and engaging in the politics of resistance northwestbylines.co.uk/news/educati...

The Italian PM claims that the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is sailing towards Gaza just to make her government uncomfortable (hello pathological narcissism!) #LetGazaLive #freepalestine HALLELUJAH TO MAKING EVERYONE UNCOMFORTABLE www.facebook.com/reel/1286844...

Volume 9 of @jcads.bsky.social is growing into one of my favourite issues. Great new article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social and @elenasemino.bsky.social just out

"Power to the people, with ice cream at midnight! Taste it and see. Not everything in the world is going to hell." 🎞️🎞️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Delighted to announce (ugh, can't believe I'm saying that) that Alon Lischinsky and my bibliography of Trans Media Studies is out with Oxford Bibliographies! It's basically the equivalent of a compilation tape - key works, deep cuts and things we like www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth” @gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning #DHSS2025

Tomorrow I will be joining the general strike against Israel's genocide in Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people. If you are in Bologna and wish to raise your voice, see you in Piazza Maggiore at 10:30 #LetGazaLive

We are organizing #CADAAD2026 in Valladolid. The #CFP will be launched soon. We'll be using the handle @cadaad2026.bsky.social for updates and information. Follow us there & help us spread the word! #CADAADNetwork #CADAAD #CriticalDiscourseStudies

'She chose September, that most excellent month' open.spotify.com/episode/6FEY... reading and listening to #ArundhatiRoy on my commute

Pattern, Construction, System: A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis. Susan Hunston's latest book. It's Open Access, so the PDF is available online already... www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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!

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

'We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people'

Thought that boycotting Google would be impossible, but as of today I am surfing the web Chrome-free using Ecosia and it is great. I am now trying to find an alternative to Gmail (though the transition is going to be slower and trickier). Any suggestions? Currently considering Runbox and Posteo

That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic? @journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics What do we learn when we don't get expected results? doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

thrilled to have my paper "Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies A methodological exploration" published in @ijcl.bsky.social www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... Thanks to colleagues, reviewers and editors for the precious feedback #corpuslingustics

This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world

This is disgusting. No surprise from the Mail, but still. Utterly disgusting.

interesting read. I have to say the otters really helped. I might consider having a picture of a sea otter every few slides during my lessons

9/9 2025 Online guest lecture by Melissa Kemble on Exploring gendered representations of sexuality and ethnicity in the Australian sports media: A corpus-based analysis of Aussie Rules and Rugby League Details. Details: sydneycorpuslab.com/wp-content/u...

We live in a world where the moral architecture has been destroyed - there is no shelter (Arundhati Roy) open.spotify.com/episode/71kb...

In a new paper, Prof. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus & Dr Craig Evans presents the first comprehensive account of online grooming discourse. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TLDR 👇 #DRAGON #onlinegrooming #onlineharms #onlinesafety #childprotection #childsafeguarding

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...

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

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...

"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?" I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely. tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu

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

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

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1490et

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Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik

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