The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis) is freely available online, and can now be downloaded from the UKDataService’s ReShare repository. You can find it here: reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/856736/

In reality, the creation and spread of misinformation and disinformation is fuelled by communities that, for the most part, believe themselves to be truthseekers, not propagandists or agents of disinformation.

Save the date: We are delighted to announce that the next Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics will take place on 24-28 June 2024 at Lancaster University. The applications open in January. See you in the summer! Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @CorpusSocialSc More at: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummersc…

On February 15th we will be giving a joint CASS Intl Consortium for Communication in Health Care webinar ‘The Questioning Vaccination Discourse Project (Quo VaDis): What we have learnt’. The webinar will discuss the rationale for the project, its methods, challenges and key findings: lancaster-uk.libcal.com/calendar/facto…

📣Join us at the Linguistics and English Language LAEL PG Conference at Lancaster University on June 21st, 2024. Calling MA and PhD students from any institution🎓! Present your work and get the opportunity to be published by Lancaster University.📚 wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconferen…

Thank you to those who have submitted their abstracts for the LAEL PG conference.🫡🫶 There is still time to submit yours and join us on June 21st!🤓 wp.lancs.ac.uk/laelpgconferen…

We believe this is putting people with dementia in the realms of the already dead. Our work is about working with people so they can live, live and live again.

Alzheimer's Society According to Alzheimer's Society I died three times in a day! That was the day I was diagnosed and told I should no longer work or drive! I didn't die! I am still me, just living with a diagnosis of dementia!

'We all wish people donated on the back of positive stories, but they don’t.' It is about fundraising. This is not the moment to start telling porky pies.

We’re very proud to have 11 of our subjects ranked in the global top 100, with linguistics (Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni) placed third in the world! Find out more about the new QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 released today #QSWUR | QS World University Rankings lancaster.ac.uk/news/world-top…

📢 #BAAL Language & New Media SIG alert! Registration for the 2024 Research Seminar, at Queen Mary, University of London on 24th May, is now open. Join us for some brilliant talks on the theme of Digital Health Communication. Tickets & info available here: eventbrite.com/e/860750827897…

I was quite nervous about my first conference presentation last week, but I think it went well! Thoroughly enjoyed all the interesting presentations shared last week in London, as well as a couple bonus ones today! 🙂 (Thanks Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social for these fab photos!)

Vaclav giving a brilliant and useful talk as ever at the summer school! CASS #LancsSS24

Always great to see so many collocation graphs up in the lab! Great workshop by Luke Collins for the CASS summer school! #LancsSS24

This is good to see in a world of increasing polarisation…

“We are not going to let them divide us” Heartwarming scenes in #Middlesbrough this morning as the community rallies together after the shocking disorder yesterday

This week on #CorpusMOOC: Corpus based discourse analysis with an example of the most recent policy report (2024) on GOV.UK's representation of the sea CASS Celine Germond-Duret, Chris Sanderson and Basil Germond 🟢futurelearn.com/courses/corpus… 🔵cass.lancs.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

Want to get word #frequency wrong? Ask #AI 🤖. #CorpusLinguistics #Science CASS