🎉📚 Celebrating 100 years of the Prague Linguistic Circle! ✨ A century of ideas that transformed linguistics and continue to shape how we think about language 🗣️ #PragueLinguisticCircle #Linguistics #LanguageScience @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Read a blog post: cass.lancs.ac.uk/100-years-of...

The @corpussocialsci.bsky.social Open Research Group meetings start on Wed 28th October 12pm UK time. 📢"Communicating with confidence" 🌐Online/in person Free registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YT5md2fjka All are welcome!

Professor Elena Semino, one of the co-directors of CASS, shares how corpus linguistics can be applied in practice, including through collaborations with charities to explore discourse around social care and heart failure. 🔍✨

Prof. Tineke Brunfaut shares her insights into how corpus linguistics can be applied to language testing research, including how learner corpora contribute to test development and how we analyze performances on tests ✨📖

How can corpus linguistics help us understand real-world social issues? Dr. Yufeng Liu shares insights into corpus linguistics and its applications to health communication, including how they can shed light on the language used to describe and make sense of cancer experiences.

A lovely moment from today’s CASS lunch gathering! And a great way to kick off the new academic term and catch up with colleagues. This term, we’ll be sharing more moments from CASS, including updates on our latest research and activities. Stay tuned for more! ✨

When Less is More: In our latest CASS blog, PhD researcher Jonathan Sumner explores why AI tools can be too quick to 'improve' learners’ writing - and how targeted fine-tuning could help AI provide more useful feedback while preserving the learner’s own voice. cass.lancs.ac.uk/when-less-is...

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