New year, new book! Out now: 'Applications of Corpus Linguistics: Established and Emergent Contexts', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social and @robbielove.org and published by @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. More info in thread ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

Exciting news! You can now view our plenary speakers' abstracts: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/ple.... You have one week remaining to submit your abstracts!

📚"The affective meanings of bowing in a web corpus of Japanese", out now OA in the Journal of Pragmatics! Access it here doi.org/10.1016/j.pr..., and more details below 👇

Had a nice time last week at the @britishacademy.bsky.social, discussing Critical AI Literacies as part of this year's Global China Dialogue! A nice opportunity to address the emerging role of and associated challenges with AI in education #GenAIintheDisciplines @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @ukri.org

Out now: 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia', with Chris Chikodzore-Paterson and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social: 📑Journal article: utppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10.... 📝Author copy (open access): eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

Autism in Interaction is officially out It introduces the concept of "neurolect" into linguistics and explores why autistic communication is so often misinterpreted as "rude" by neurotypical listeners. www.routledge.com/Autism-in-In...

‘Parnell’s Constructing Brexit Britain emerges as a pioneering scholarly endeavor that intricately examines the discursive formations shaping British national identity amid the tumultuous Brexit process.’ New review of my book in Political Studies Review! journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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

Out now: 'Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social @emma-putland.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. Features 11 chapters using corpora to explore medical discourse over four centuries! www.routledge.com/Historical-M...

New chapter with the 'Questioning Vaccination Discourse' team: 'Anti-vaccination discourse in Victorian England: Key Semantic Domains and Parallels with Present-Day Anti-Vaccination Arguments'. Part of a fascinating volume on historical medical discourse. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

New article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @elenasemino.bsky.social exploring patterns in reports of disability experience jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....

New openaccess paper in Digital Health with Anna Cermakova et al.: "In my experience …": The use of the word "experience" in peer online forums for mental health. The study is part of the NIHR-funded project 'Improving Peer Online Forums', led by Fiona Lobban: www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-m...

Call for Papers 💥DEADLINE EXTENSION!💥 Our Call for Papers will now close on 19th December 2025! We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you all next June! Submit your abstract here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...

It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...

Looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow and there is time to register still if you're interested 😄 ⤵️

New article out: Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025). Available open access for 50 days: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!

"I feel a wave of affection.." "il sera fou de joie…" OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre. #LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

🚨New Cambridge Element🚨 "Protecting the Public's Health during Novel Infectious Disease Outbreaks" by Louise Cummings is out now & #OpenAccess https://cup.org/3J3aAWI #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 #PublicHealth 🩺📊

Have you published a book recently? or a special issue? Are you working on a call for papers or abstracts? Are you organising a workshop? If you'd like to include any of the above on the next CADAAD mailshot, please write to [email protected]

My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

spooktacular, momfluencer, pupperazi.. How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred? Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability #WordFormation doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️

It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast! We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow. Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!

The timeline for the projects discussed in this book roughly maps onto my time with @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and will stand proudly on my bookshelf. Was fun to write, too. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

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...

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...

Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

“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

Today’s keynote is Gavin Brookes on "Corpus linguistics for gender and language research". One striking example: James Bond’s masculinity is, among other things, constructed through silence (most frequent trigram in the Fleming corpus is "bond said nothing"). @gavinbrookes.bsky.social #DHSS2025

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

We had two fantastic sessions this morning! – Prof. Michaela Mahlberg gave us a great introduction to digital humanities @michamahlberg.bsky.social – Prof. Anna Foka delivered an inspiring first keynote on AI & heritage Fantastic vibes all around! ✨ #DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

We can’t wait to welcome our great keynote speakers at next week’s Summer School! Find out more details about their sessions on our website. @annafoka.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mkschumacher.bsky.social #DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities

OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data. In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh. #BERT doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data. Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

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...

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...

Great to the schedule for the #DHSS2025 summer school out! An amazing programme is waiting for our participants ☺️ #DataGenderSociety #DH #DigitalHumanities go.fau.de/1cadb

The call for papers for the 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Conference is now out! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal... Submission deadline is 16 November. Really looking forward to it!

I was honoured today to give a keynote speech on working with sociodemographic metadata for online language corpora, at the 12th CMC Conference at the University of Bayreuth 🇩🇪 Grateful to the audience for their engagement and great questions! @unibayreuth.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇 tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏

A privilege to speak with Ruth Wodak and Chair @katherineeruss1.bsky.social today at @fomatplay.bsky.social Conference in Granada about CDA, corpus linguistics, migration, and discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

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

How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

OUT NOW: Heng Gong, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu compare the use of interactive metadiscourse features in research articles written by Chinese scholars in Chinese and in English, alongside L1 English texts. How do writers adapt to the different language contexts? Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

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