Now, at #CAD26 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social, Professor @elenasemino.bsky.social is delivering a keynote speech on “Using corpus-based discourse analysis to cross boundaries and build bridges”. #corpuslinguistics #discourseanalysis #metaphor #crossdisciplinary

Yesterday, Day 1 at #CAD26 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Highlights from three panels: Nation and Nationhood, Health Discourses and Sexual and/or Gender-Based Violence.

📚 This morning at #CAD26, Dr @matteofuoli.bsky.social delivered a keynote on combining corpus-assisted discourse studies and experimental methods to investigate audience effects.

CaD 2026 is bringing me back to BlueSky 😃 Happy to contribute 🥰

Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026@corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our final preparations are underway and we are very excited to welcome everyone to sunny Lancaster for the conference tomorrow! #CADS2026

New paper just out in Communication & Medicine: 'Metaphors and identities in online descriptions of the experience of pain', with @kikiliu.bsky.social and Jane Demmen. It was a long time in the making for various reasons so we're particularly pleased to see it out! utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Metaphors and identities in online descriptions of the experience of pain | Communication & Medicine

Abstract Becoming seriously and/or chronically ill can challenge and disrupt our sense of who we are in terms of our bodies, minds, and social roles. Although a substantial literature exists on metaphor and illness, the use of metaphor to represent identities has received little attention. This article focuses on similes as a particularly relevant manifestation of metaphoricity in language. An 8-million–word corpus of contributions to the Pain Concern online forum is investigated via a combination of corpus linguistic methods and in-depth qualitative analysis. We explore how contributors to the forum use similes to describe their own (changing) self-perceptions due to living with pain and its consequences. To this end, we introduce and demonstrate a multicomponent analytical framework, which, as we show, is equally applicable to the analysis of metaphorical expressions. The framework includes a consideration of source concept, type of identity, and viewpoint. With regard to our data, we show how similes are used to convey mostly unwelcome changes in the person's perception of themselves in physical, psychological, and/or social terms, potentially resulting in estrangement, low self-esteem, isolation, and disempowerment. More broadly, we suggest that our framework is applicable to the study of metaphorical representations of identities in the context of illness generally.

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Applications of Corpus Linguistics by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry and Robbie Love With case studies from diverse contexts, this book shows and critically reflects on applications of corpus linguistics research and methods. 📚 https://cup.org/3NZeaTI

Interested in what different members of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) are working on? Today we're putting the spotlight on Professor May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore): ic4ch.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/s...

Spotlight: May O. Lwin (February 2026)

In this second Spotlight video of the series, Dr Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University) talks with Professor May O. Lwin, who is a Professor in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information…

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‼️ Deadline Extension ‼️ The deadline to submit abstracts for our 2026 webinar has now been extended to Monday, March 9th @ 5pm We’d love to hear from you!

BAAL Health & Science SIG@baal-health-sig.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Call for Papers for our 2026 webinar: ‘Key Health and Science Communication Challenges in the 2020s’ We’re delighted to share the cfp for our upcoming event. If you’re considering submitting, we’d love to hear from you. The deadline for submission is 5pm, February 9th 2026. wp.me/pcqSKn-dv

Our entry on ‘Time Series’ Published in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd Edition) I would like to thank Professor Dennis Tay for his generous support throughout the process. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...

lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX

In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...

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At #RaAM17 @raammetaphor.bsky.social, I was pleased to present, on behalf of our team, one study from the 4D Picture project, on “Metaphors, identities, and gender in online interactions about cancer”. It was my first in-person RaAM, and I loved every bit of it.

Just received the final proofs of this book, based on @corpussocialsci.bsky.social research on health communication. It will be out *open access* later this year. @paulari.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

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Always so special to get lots of our staff, students and alumni together. A lovely evening after #EAPC2025

Glad to share our poster at #EAPC2025 on metaphors, identities & gender in cancer communication—part of @4dpicture, with key contributions from @corpussocialsci.bsky.social @ioelc.bsky.social @ucrelnlp.bsky.social The Junior Forum was a real highlight—truly motivating as an ECR.

I should start my day with little lambs and ducks.

Just out in the BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/389/... - a (supportive) response to Samantha Vanderslott's piece 'Confronting the shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination will help us in future pandemics', based on our earlier paper on a new form of vaccine scepticism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Better communication about vaccines could tackle scepticism

Vanderslott discusses several shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination that need to be tackled in preparation for future pandemics.1 My colleagues and I have identified an additional area of concern.2 We ...

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Leading the way in #CorpusLinguistics! CASS at @LancasterUni is tackling real-world challenges with big data and language analysis - now with new co-directors at the helm. Dive into our latest blog to see what’s next: cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-enters-... #Linguistics #AI #SocialScience #CASS

We now have a Bluesky account for the Public Discourses of Dementia project! Check out what we're doing, and what we've been up to, below! 👇 #dementia #appliedlinguistics #discourse #corpuslinguistics

Public Discourses of Dementia@pubdiscdementia.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello! At the Public Discourses of Dementia Project, we aim to identify and challenge stigma around #dementia by analysing how people and organisations communicate about the syndrome in public. You can find out more on our website: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco... and in this thread 😊

I, alongside Dr Mike Ryder at Lancaster University, have just published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities titled 'Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective'! It is open access and you can read it here - mh.bmj.com/content/earl... 1/3

I have written a piece for @theconversationuk.bsky.social about our study on a new form of vaccine scepticism: people questioning the status of some vaccines as vaccines, starting during the pandemic theconversation.com/its-not-a-va... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

‘It’s not a vaccine, it’s a shot’: uncovering a new trend in vaccine scepticism

The COVID pandemic triggered a new kind of vaccine scepticism shared by people who normally take up vaccines – here’s why that’s a problem.

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Something weird about Web of Science… They have automatically added someone else’s research outputs to my profile. I cannot even find a way to delete that person’s name and organisations on my profile. It’s funny to see myself in the fields of Engineering and Linguistics at the same time…

We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025! 🔗 www.topuniversities.com/university-s... 🔗 www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

How can corpus linguistics enhance legal research? In our latest post, Adrian Hemler, a recent Lancaster University Master’s graduate, shares insights on the intersection of law and linguistics. Read more: cass.lancs.ac.uk/corpus-lingu...

Spring in Lancaster. 🍃 ☀️🌷

I made a #cognitivelinguistics starter park - please share and let me know who I missed! #linguistics #starterpack go.bsky.app/EtMaSX5

Just had a fantastic time at the #BAECRN #ECRNetwork North West and North Wales Launch event! Great discussions and connections-so excited to be part of this Early Career Researcher network. Looking forward to what’s next :)

We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications. 16-20 June 2025 More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

Hello #wmatrix version 7, I've just got access to a new server to install the next release of the software (ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/). More news coming soon!

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