Paul Baker
@paulari.bsky.social
Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
I have funding for a 2027 PhD position at Hong Kong Polytechnic University to examine HK newspaper discourse. You will have experience of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and be able to work with written Chinese. The closing date for applications is August 31. Contact me if interested.
I have a new article out! It's open access, so please share the link far and wide. Thank you! 😁 doi.org/10.1093/appl...
Abnormal deceivers? Biopower in clinician accounts of embodiment and life for people with intersex variations
Abstract. This research underscores the power of direct clinician–patient interaction to both reproduce and disrupt biopolitical paradigms, offering insigh
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We had such a lovely, festive time at the Burgh Island Hotel. We'll be back for sure! 💃🏻🏝️
Just published - Distorted realities: Gender bias in Chinese news representations of wives and husbands in domestic violence articles - new article in Discourse & Communication co-authored with @scarlett0815.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Distorted realities: Gender bias in Chinese news representations of wives and husbands in domestic violence articles - Sijia (Scarlett) Li, Paul Baker, 2025
Domestic violence affects one in three women in the world. How the public perceive and address this issue is much shaped by media reports. However, few studies ...
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Lancaster arts, humanities and social science colleagues in top 2% of scientists in the world - Lancaster University
Lancaster University’s Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences is home to some of most influential researchers in the world. The latest Stanford/Elsevier list of the top 2% of scientists in th...
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My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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How do you decide whether or not to use AI tools in your research? One approach is to judge the extent to which they align with the values that underpin your research - in this open access paper we look at this question of alignment. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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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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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What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
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A great week at the Lancaster University Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. I think this is the 15th year I've taught on it.
@mollyconisbee.bsky.social congrats on your Guardian article today!
One of my favourite places might not last much longer 😟https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/apr/14/uks-oldest-indian-restaurant-faces-closure-in-dispute-with-crown-estate
UK’s oldest Indian restaurant faces closure in dispute with crown estate
Owner of Michelin-starred Veeraswamy, London, heads to high court to object to ‘heartless’ plans to upgrade building
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Very proud that my department (Linguistics and English Language) is placed 3rd in the world for a second year www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...
Lancaster subjects are among best in the world and Linguistics takes third place - Lancaster University
Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked third in the world with eight other subjects making it into the world top 100, according to new rankings released today.
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My recent Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge on Polari is now available on YouTube eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Great to represent @lancslinguistics.bsky.social and give a Darwin College lecture at the University of Cambridge this evening on Polari. Among others, the series has hosted Mary Beard, Desmond Tutu, David Crystal, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking and Sandy Toksvig. It was a bona nochy.
Happy to say this was published yesterday: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's Literature
This book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in a cross-section of bestselling children's book series of the last 60 years.
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Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal. #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...
Vocabulary, corpus and language teaching. A machine-generated literature overview
The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 can be classified as a pivotal moment, one that compels us to pause and consider some fundamental questions related
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Great to chat with @ollyalexander.bsky.social about his fantabulosa new album Polari on The Today Show this morning 👏❤️🌈
