📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

I'm so stoked to share an article I've written for @theconversation.com about our recent study on the Enron scandal! theconversation.com/the-fraudste...

The fraudsters’ playbook: our study of Enron traders shows how easily the language of trust can be abused

A linguistic expert explains the techniques Enron traders used to build and retain trust in their criminal strategies.

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Our new CUP Element on trust, discourse, and the Enron scandal is out and free to download! Download the book: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Watch the video abstract: vimeo.com/1125812463 Download the Enron Trader Tapes, annotated data and R code: osf.io/ngdhx

Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption

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Our paper on metaphor identification using LLMs is finally out open access in Applied Corpus Linguistics! doi.org/10.1016/j.ac... Code & data: github.com/Weihang-Huan...

Early-career researchers: if you’d like to present your ongoing work and get helpful feedback from both peers and experienced scholars, the 2026 Linguistics Prague conference is for you! 👉 linguisticsprague.ff.cuni.cz/call-for-abs... 🗓 Abstract submission deadline: 1 February

The submission deadline for next year's #CADS conference has been extended to December 19th 2025! So, three more weeks to get abstracts in - nice! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...

It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast! We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow. Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!

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Wonderful to speak with @matteofuoli.bsky.social on the latest episode: Changing Climate; Changing Discourse languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog-post-title-one-jawmt-pcckw-eh84g-ne93z-7efd9-4m5xl-wh4nd-s38gs-cpc35-z3r6k-b2kfk-pjj6a-d2pzy-ksrpb-zhd5b-p4ww7-enf62-9yw6l-6k8sx-nmpwh-rppkr

Funding opportunity: PhD at Sussex - Open to applicants on PhD Linguistics - Scholarships cover tuition fees, a stipend at UK Research Council rates plus some research & training costs - 5 interdisciplinary themes addressing major social sciences challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

How good are LLMs at identifying and tagging metaphors in text? Turns out, pretty good! In our new study, we ask 10 different open- and closed-source LLMs to label all metaphorical expressions in a dataset of film reviews using <Metaphor> and </Metaphor> XML tags. arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning

Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation d...

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The call for papers for the 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Conference is now out! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal... Submission deadline is 16 November. Really looking forward to it!

More and more companies have pledged to reach "net zero". But how exactly are these pledges framed in corporate communications, and how credible are they? These are the questions we explore in our new study, just published in Applied Corpus Linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Corporate buzzword or genuine commitment? A corpus-assisted analysis of corporate ‘net-zero’ pledges by major global corporations

In recent years, corporations have faced growing pressure to address their environmental impact, leading many to pledge ‘net-zero’ emissions. This stu…

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What an absolute treat and honor to be invited to give a plenary at my favourite conference! 🤩 Thanks so much @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and all the #CADS2026 organizers for this invite. Can't wait!

Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026@corporadiscourse.bsky.social · last yr.

This week, we'll be announcing our four plenary speakers for the 2026 Corpora & Discourse International Conference. The first speaker we're excited to announce is Dr Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social (University of Birmingham). You can read more about Matteo here: tinyurl.com/ycke6bya #CADS2026

What happens when activists creatively reimagine corporate logos to resist branding narratives? Our new paper explores the powerful multimodal practice of "figurative subversion" and its role in challenging corporate messages. Read it here: bit.ly/3GrXAse

Join us for our #CCRSS25 corpus linguistics summer school! It's going to be super fun! I'll be giving a session on corpus annotation with the UAM tool.

Akira Murakami@mrkm-a.bsky.social · last yr.

At #CCRSS25, @matteofuoli.bsky.social will show you how to use the UAM Corpus Tool for manual annotation and analysis. Get hands-on practice defining coding schemes, tagging texts, and extracting insights from your corpora!

📢 Come work with us 📢 We're recruiting a new Research Assistant to work alongside @drniccimacleod.bsky.social on her project Talking Rape: Operation Soteria and the Police Interview, funded by a Leverhulme Fellowship 👇 jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at Aston University: Research Assistant

The Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics is the leading hub for forensic linguistics worldwide. Set up as the Centre for Forensic Linguistics in 2008 by Malcolm Coulthard, it was expanded into a r...

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As we look ahead to the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Summer School (#CCRSS25, 7–11 July), we’ll be spotlighting our fantastic instructors and the sessions they’ll be leading. There’s still time to register—don’t miss out! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2025

Our Corpus Linguistics summer school is open to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as researchers who want to improve their skills to apply corpus methods in their own researc...

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Can we infer deceptive intent from fact-checker labels? And what if what fact-checkers consider “false” today turns out to be “true” tomorrow? We explore these and other methodological questions in our new paper with Bashayer Baissa & @jwgrieve.bsky.social: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Veracity and register in fake news analysis

This article addresses two fundamental methodological challenges in linguistic fake news research: how to reliably classify news texts as real versus fake and how to control for register variation whe...

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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to share my latest research on the language of trust at Hong Kong's Poly. The study’s in press with Cambridge Elements in Forensic Linguistics and we’re releasing a new 400k corpus of Enron trader phone calls. Watch this space! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx7_...

Seminar | Trading trust: verbal manipulation in the Enron Tapes

YouTube video by ENGL PolyU

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Next Monday I’ll be giving a talk on my latest research on the linguistics of trust and manipulation as part of Hong Kong Poly’s English and Communication seminar series. The talk will be on Zoom and open to all. If you’re interested, you can sign up via the link below!

Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI! www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... We argue that sociolinguistics holds the key to understanding and improving large language models.

Frontiers | The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling

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Jack Grieve@jwgrieve.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper out today in Frontiers in AI! The sociolinguistic foundations of language modelling We argue sociolinguistics provides a foundation for understanding LLMs and addressing many challenges www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... doi.org/10.3389/frai... techxplore.com/news/2025-01...

Great to be part of this special issue on corpus approaches to business communication! Thanks for all your work @mathewgillings.bsky.social and @susannekopf.bsky.social and congrats to all the authors.

Mathew Gillings@mathewgillings.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

First post on Bluesky! 🥳 Here's the recording of a talk I presented a few months ago, hosted by the fantastic team at @discore.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B9IBQX Corpus methods have transformed discourse analysis. Here, I argue it's time to take #CADS a step further by combining it with experiments.

DISCORE Speaker Series: Dr.Matteo Fuoli - Presentation

Dr.Matteo Fuoli gave a talk titled A new methodological synergy? Combining CADS and experimental methods to investigate discourse effects.

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Hi Bluesky: the department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham is now on Bluesky! Who else from our department is here? @jeannettel.bsky.social @matteofuoli.bsky.social @adamcschembri.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @gregwoodin.bsky.social