That's a wrap on our 2026 Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics! Thank you to everyone who took part and made it such a success. We hope to see you again next year. Don't forget to check out our online courses of Corpus Mooc this September and our latest Master's programmes. #LancsSS26

Here is an interview with Prof Tineke Brunfaut @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social from Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. As one of our Summer School speakers, she shares her thoughts on the Summer School, corpus research, and language teaching, testing and assessment.💡 #LancsSS26

📢 A special message from @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social Prof Vaclav Brezina, Co-Director of the CASS at Lancaster University! Interested in corpus linguistics? Join our Corpus MOOC, a free online training course running every September. We look forward to welcoming you! 🌍📚

Here is an interview with Prof Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social from Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. Elena is also Co-Director of the Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) Centre. Let's hear what she enjoys most about the Summer School! #LancsSS26

Now we are having a session with @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social and @danagablas.bsky.social about language teaching and testing: current and future challenges. #LancsSS26

We're delighted by the enthusiasm and engagement of our participants at this year's Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics! Here's an interview with one of our participants, Teba Naqash from the University of Leeds❤️🎙️ #LancsSS26

Another excellent session with @elenasemino.bsky.social on corpus approaches to health communication, with a focus on vaccine hesitancy. Highly recommended for researchers and students interested in health communication discourse.✨ #LancsSS26

Day 5 #LancsSS26🎉 Today is the last day of our Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics. We still have a packed schedule of exciting sessions this morning. Right now, we are attending a session with Dr. Raffaella Bottini related to complexity in language✨ #Corpuslinguistics #LancsSS26

As Day 4 #LancsSS26 came to an end, our Discipline Lead, Prof. Luke Harding @lukeharding.bsky.social shared some of his impressions of our 2026 Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics.💡 #linguistics #Corpuslinguistics

A lovely group photo featuring some of #LancsSS26 participants from the session on Testing and Assessing Pragmatics and Interactional Competence with @lukeharding.bsky.social #LancsSS26

Now another wonderful session is ongoing with @lukeharding.bsky.social Testing and assessing pragmatics and interactional competence #LancsSS26

Now our participants are having a practical session about Semantic Annotation with @perayson.bsky.social If you're interested in applying NLP and corpus linguistics tools to discourse analysis, this lab training is a perfect opportunity for you! #LancsSS26

Check this out👀！ @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social is inviting you to meet🦆Corrie, our mascot for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics✨ #LancsSS26 #Corpuslinguistics

Here is a fascinating clip with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social: A Klein bottle - a very special topological object - reminds us that also in corpus linguistics, we have to think beyond three dimensions.✨ #LancsSS26 #corpuslinguistics

Now a wonderful practical session about statistics and data visualisation is ongoing with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social #LancsSS26 #corpuslinguistics #lancsbox

Now is the session with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social ✨Statistics & data visualisation #LancsSS26 #Corpuslinguistics

Day 4 #LancsSS26 Here is another ongoing session this morning with @drclaireh.bsky.social Forensic Linguistics I🤔✨ #LancsSS26 #forensiclinguistics

Day 4 #LancsSS26 Here is the session with @tinekebrunfaut.bsky.social Testing formulaic language use✨📖 #languagetesting #LancsSS26

Another fascinating practical session we had this afternoon with @issyclarke.bsky.social Building your own corpus with LancsBox #LancsSS26

Now is the session with @John Pill：Use of corpus tools in test development #LancsSS26 #Languagetesting

Now is the session with @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social： The NewsScape corpus of TV news and the multimodal representation of refugees and migrants #LancsSS26

EMI Corpus Launch event today at #LancsSS26🎉🎉🎉 The corpus can be explored through an online query interface, enabling users to search authentic language data directly: 🔗 Query interface: lnkd.in/ebdudrgQ More information about the project is available here: 🔗 Project website: lnkd.in/euM8KNqh

Day 3 #LancsSS26 We had two wonderful sessions in the morning✨ @lukeharding.bsky.social Validity, AI and Language testing @jculpeper.bsky.social Shakespeare’s words, words, words: Insights via corpus methods

A lovely afternoon walking around Lancaster with our 2026 summer school participants! We explored Lancaster Castle, Austin's House, Lancaster Priory, the Roman Bath House, the Millennium Bridge over the River Lune, the city centre, and Dalton Square. 🌟 #LancsSS26 @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social

Today we’ve had two wonderful practical sessions #LancsSS26: One is about using corpus tools & techniques of CQPweb with @Andrew Hardie，and the other is Analysing and Visualising collocations with @Raffaella Bottini Learning to use corpus tools is always rewarding and enlightening✨

Another clip with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social about a special book - A Collection of English Proverbs by John Ray #LancasSS26 #Corpuslinguistics

Today's short video #1 with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social The Galton Board, also known as the Quincunx. #LancsSS26 #Corpuslinguistics

Now is the session Analysing and Visualising Collocations with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social #LancsSS26

Another fascinating video about early concordance in the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus produced in the 1970s @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social #LancsSS26

An engaging short video about concordance in corpus linguistics with @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social #LancsSS26

Meet Corrie the concorduck - a duck especially trained to analyse concordance lines😀 #LancsSS26 Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics are about to start!

Here is the session - Corpus-based approaches to language teaching and testing with @danagablas.bsky.social #LancsSS26

Now is the session - Achieving impact with corpus research by @issyclarke.bsky.social #LancsSS26

Here is Language Testing at Lancaster introduced by Professor Tineke Brunfaut #LancsSS26

Here is corpus-based discourse analysis by @veronikakoller.bsky.social If you‘re interested in corporate communication，do check it out！ #LancsSS26

Now it's coffee o'clock！ #LancsSS26

Corpus linguistics at Lancaster - Long tradition and Innovation & Applications introduced by @danagablas.bsky.social #SS26

📣🎓 Lancaster Summer Schools start today！Registration is underway！ Join our online sessions to learn about Corpus Linguistics 🗂️📚- the study of language through real-world data！ Sign up and get a certificate of attendance ✨ 👉 forms.office.com/e/7UPvCDfwAX

📣🎓 Lancaster Summer Schools start today！Registration is underway！ Join our online sessions to learn about Corpus Linguistics 🗂️📚- the study of language through real-world data！ Sign up and get a certificate of attendance ✨ 👉 forms.office.com/e/7UPvCDfwAX

New blog: analysing how obesity is represented in news reporting. The post explores patterns in media language and what they reveal about wider public discourse around obesity. cass.lancs.ac.uk/representati...

We recently hosted a visit from Mina Patel, Head of Research, Future of English at the @britishcouncil.bsky.social - you can read more in our latest blog post. cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-researc...

In 2026, our CASS Summer Schools offer two free-to-attend courses in corpus linguistics, focused on Language, Discourse and Society, and Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment. Applications are now open! wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer... #LancsSS26

Applications for the free-to-attend 2026 CASS Summer Schools are now open! Intensive, expert-led training in corpus linguistics. No course fees (travel and accommodation are self-funded) #LancsSS26 Apply via the CASS website: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

New on the CASS blog: insights from a recent visiting academic on her research stay at Lancaster. Read the post here: cass.lancs.ac.uk/my-research-...

After the excitement of last week’s book launch, here's a blog from our team that lifts the lid on how corpus linguistics can be used to explore illness and healthcare. A look at the methods, the hurdles, and the insights along the way: cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

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...

Join us for our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care! 📆When: 11-12 September 2025 📍At: Lancaster University, UK Early bird registration is open until June 15th registration.lancaster.ac.uk/Registration... More info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

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