Another great book in our Routledge Applied Corpus Studies series: “Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies: the linguistic construction of certainty” by Chris Fitzgerald. It looks the language of certainty in data from the Irish Bureau of Military History

CLaC welcomes our visiting researcher Aysel Şahin Kızıl clac.coventry.domains/visiting-schol…

Is growing up bilingual more difficult than learning just one language? Thanks to @SilleBrandt at Lancaster University for sharing some thoughts: youtube.com/shorts/AgTJIF5…

🚨 NEW SHOW 🚨 🎙️ CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love 🗣️ Robbie looks at the story of the Survey of English Usage (Survey of English Usage UCL) with its director, Professor Bas Aarts FULL SHOW👉bit.ly/40zUJTx #TeamAston #CorpuCast Aston Corpus Linguistics Research Group

New Cambridge Element Metalinguistic Awareness in Second Language Reading Development by Echoecho Ke Dongbo Zhang and Keiko Koda out now! Read for free for 2 weeks ow.ly/Hfz650MHKEg #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics

Join us for our fourth webinar of the series "A conversation with..." featuring this time Elen Le Foll, Eric Nicaise, and Fanny Meunier! 19th April 11-12 pm BST. Submit your questions here: tinyurl.com/4wu88a3z Register here for this free event: tinyurl.com/55b4c86d

Recent talks presented by CLaC here: clac.coventry.domains/talks-and-pres… Including fascinating study by Hülya MISIR #translanguaging #corpus

Off to China soon to learn about the language of STEM lectures, thanks to a BritishCouncil China EME in HE grant, and Prof. Jiang at Jilin Uni. 'A study of the CPD needs of science teachers at 5 universities in NE China'- can't wait! CLaC Research Centre for Global Learning Centre for Arts, Memory & Communities #corpuslinguistics

Print copies of our Element on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies have arrived!! Exciting to finally get the ‘real thing’. 😊 Gerlinde Mautner @_paulbaker_ doi.org/10.1017/978100…

BAWE Quicklinks Project BAWE Quicklinks bawequicklinks.coventry.domains This site is designed as an aid for teachers who’d like to introduce students to concordances that can help raise their awareness of how English works.

Do you to unroll this thread? We compiled all this info + resources for teachers in the corpus & teaching page of the CORAL lab website coralcorpuslab.com/corpus-and-tea…

Check out my latest article: People should stay alert! Understanding prime ministerial directives in COVID-19 crisis communication linkedin.com/pulse/people-s… via LinkedIn with Kate Power and @benetvincent17

“How to get published?” We will have a special session at #CCRSS23 by experienced editors Prof Michaela Mahlberg and @paul_ccr on preparing a journal article submission

Would you be able to spot #fakenews? Learn what linguistics has got to say about news that intentionally aims to deceive. Here is the latest episode of #LifeandLanguage 🎧 with Jack Grieve podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/micha…

Here are eleven of the most widely used statistical methods in #CorpusLinguistics. #CorpusStatistics #Frequency Analysis: This is the cornerstone of corpus linguistics, used to identify the frequency of words, phrases, or syntactic structures. Biber’s “Variation Across Speech

We are very exited to announce the next LANA seminar! Raffaella Bottini & Elen Le Foll: “The effect of the reference corpus on mean-frequency measures of lexical sophistication” When? Friday, Sep 8, at 5pm UK/9am AZ Where? Link to attend: tinyurl.com/2p9xde4a

New paper! "Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬: The case of teenage British English conversation", written with Anna-Brita Stenström for the Journal of Pragmatics. Available open access here: doi.org/10.1016/j.prag…

New entries have been added to our Quicklinks database thanks to our new associate, Elena Mazzeri (linkedin.com/in/elena-mazze…), who's been doing some great work over the summer, e.g. this new one on the use of 'access': bawequicklinks.coventry.domains/encyclopedia/a… #DDL #BAWE

🔎 Compare the words "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" with Word Sketch Difference! You can easily reveal their collocation behavior and word usage patterns within a few seconds! 🚀 ske.li/w54 #collocations #corpuslinguistics #textanalysis 🌐 sketchengine.eu/blog/most-freq…

Latest addition to JCADS Vol 6 free on-line: Book review: Gillings, M., Mautner, G., & Baker, P. (2023). Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, CUP. Reviewed by Alan Partington