I'm happy to announce that AntConc 4.1.0 for Windows, MacOS, and Linux is now released. It includes a new *online* corpus repository, a new wordcloud tool, and various tweaks to improve the user experience. You can get it as a free download here: laurenceanthony.net/software/antco…

Couldn't agree more!

Diverse newsrooms aren’t just about ppl who look different it’s also about ppl who SOUND different. Having just finished my internship with ABC News I am (pleasantly) surprised by the no. of ppl who told me to NEVER change my accent. It’s a small win for intl journos!

New #SydneyCorpusLab blog post by Raphael Lo Schiavo-Rega on Australian media reporting on the January 6th capitol attack #CorpusLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis sydneycorpuslab.com/australian-new…

Coming up later this week: MEDIA MUTATIONS 13 - Audiovisual Data: Data-Driven Perspectives for Media Studies Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, October 6th-7th site.unibo.it/mediamutations…

Episode 10 of #CorpusCast is out now! A dive into literary linguistics and corpus stylistics with Prof Michaela Mahlberg - thanks Michaela for visiting us in the “CorpusCast studio” Aston University! 😀 English at Aston University Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University Aston University PR

Now published online 1st in ⁦Language and Literature⁩ with Liza-Mare Syron Might be of use to those interested in stylistic & sociolinguistic analysis of dialogue in (tv) drama, marginalised Englishes, Aboriginal English(es), Indigenous-authored television journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Interested in #aushistory #collections #auspublishing #archives and want to help build the National #collection plus work with me and Dr Shirleene Robinson AM and the rest of a great #curatorial team please apply ⬇️ #libjobs #libraryjobs #auslibjobs

A date for your calendar/diary: #SydneyCorpusLab hosting an online talk by ⁦Martin Schweinberger⁩ on 25 October 2022: “From the Darkness to the Light: Reproducibility, Replication and Transparency in Corpus Linguistics” (Details in link) sydneycorpuslab.com/events/

👁 Plenary talk #1: 👤 Monika Bednarek (Monika Bednarek (she/her) 🌈) ▶️ "Language and Representation in Indigenous-Authored Television" ⏰ Wednesday 19th October • 9:30-10:30

Personal pronouns are easy to use correctly. If they tell you they use she/her, use she/her If they tell you they use they/them, use they/them If they tell you they use he/him, use he/him Use the pronouns people provide, today and everyday #InternationalPronounsDay

MFH CoDirector Tanja Dreher is presenting an online SAM Seminar on Wednesday 'What does it take to listen? Shifting hierarchies of attention in media and public inquiries' All welcome! #politicsoflistening eventbrite.com.au/e/tanja-dreher…

Reminder: #SydneyCorpusLab talk tomorrow by ⁦Martin Schweinberger⁩ about Reproducibility, Replication and Transparency in Corpus Linguistics (online): Tuesday, 25 October 6:00 pm AEDT 5:00 pm AEST 9:00 am CEST 8:00 am BST All details in link sydneycorpuslab.com/events/

ASFLA is pleased to announce the Inaugural MAK Halliday Prize - a new international prize awarded biennially for best book in Systemic Functional Linguistics. The selection committee will comprise reps from all (populated) continents, with nomination details released early 2023.

After last week's Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series conference another great conference at Universitat València starting now

As (corpus-based) discourse analysts we can sometimes forget about “small” words like “with” or put them in a “grammar bin” yet they can be important & inform us about agency, as Carly Bray points out in the newest #SydneyCorpusLab post #CorpusLinguistics sydneycorpuslab.com/first-nations-…

Pls RT — The #SydneyCorpusLab needs your help: We’re trying to compile a list of introductions/textbooks/handbooks to #CorpusLinguistics in different languages (#notjustEnglish) & need suggested additions - you should be able to see & edit the doc here: docs.google.com/document/d/1K-…

Very keen to recruit someone with an interest in regional/rural news to work with me on this research project. 🗞🔎👀 JERAA AANZCAorg First Nations Media Australia Triple A Jyi Lawton Amy McQuire Rhianna Patrick

So warm, so generous in every respect. And really enjoying working with them on their news discourse projects.