Excited to be in Malta for #IVACS2026 and honoured to have given a plenary this morning sharing reflections on the acts of Comparing and Contrasting in corpus linguistics! Huge thanks to Odette Vassallo and the team for the invitation and to Anne O'Keeffe for the very kind introduction!

⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July

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📣 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...

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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New paper with @alicedeignan.bsky.social & @duygucandarli.bsky.social: 'Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials'. We show the difficulties that 10-12yo children can have with unfamiliar metaphorical uses of words in school. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Children’s ability to interpret metaphorical polysemy in educational materials

Abstract Metaphor is used as a tool for communicating specialist knowledge to non-specialists in popular discourse and in educational contexts. Research has explored its use in higher education, but l...

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Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked 2nd in the world in the latest QS rankings! www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social

Lancaster subjects are among best in the world with Linguistics ranked second - Lancaster University

Linguistics at Lancaster University has been ranked second in the world with ten other subjects in the world top 100, according to new rankings released today.

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Great morning at #AAAL2026, where we are discussing all things AI and Applied Linguistics! Honoured to be a part of this invited colloquium, organised by Andrea Révész & Shungo Suzuki, speaking about our paper (with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social) here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Join the UCL Health Communication Network on March 17th for a talk by Dr Beth Malory: ‘British news media representations of the 2022 and 2024 mpox outbreaks: a corpus-assisted study’ More info and the link here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/health-comms...

So exciting to see the latest title in the Corpus and Discourse series out now! I really enjoyed reading Viola's book, and I'm sure you all will too! @michamahlberg.bsky.social

Viola Wiegand@violawiegand.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Today is the official publication day for the hardback version of "Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora" (ebook was published earlier). Many thanks to series editors @michamahlberg.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social for your support 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

Prof. McEnery (@tonymcenery.bsky.social) will discuss Brexit, taking a long-term view on British discourses about Europe. Prof. Koskela discusses Rhetorical Arena Theory that provides a lens for analyzing how crisis situations are actively constructed through discourse.

Thrilled to share that our research, “Gendered representations in swearing”, co-authored with my colleague Robin Vallery and my PhD supervisor @tonymcenery.bsky.social, has officially been published in Discourse Studies! 🤬🥳 Check it out: 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

📢New article out! 🟦 @shayuze.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social study user's stance and multimodal irony. 🟦They analyse comments on X to the UK's NHS Covid-19 policy posts. 🟦They prove the mediating role of affordances & offer a replicable method. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yuze Sha@shayuze.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am genuinely so happy to announce that my latest article, co-authored with my PhD supervisor, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, has now been published in Discourse, Context & Media 🎉🎉 The project was such a joy to work on! Check it out: 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out now: 'Multimodal irony in public responses to digitally mediated NHS COVID-19 messages' - article with @shayuze.bsky.social in Discourse, Context & Media. You can read it #openaccess through the link below. @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

Yuze Sha@shayuze.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I am genuinely so happy to announce that my latest article, co-authored with my PhD supervisor, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, has now been published in Discourse, Context & Media 🎉🎉 The project was such a joy to work on! Check it out: 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am genuinely so happy to announce that my latest article, co-authored with my PhD supervisor, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, has now been published in Discourse, Context & Media 🎉🎉 The project was such a joy to work on! Check it out: 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multimodal irony in public responses to digitally mediated NHS COVID-19 messaging

This study investigates how multimodal irony is discursively constructed in the expression of stance and evaluation in comments responding to the UK N…

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Out now: 'Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social @emma-putland.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. Features 11 chapters using corpora to explore medical discourse over four centuries! www.routledge.com/Historical-M...

Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives

This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse. The volume builds on recent w...

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Many thanks to Professor Ursula Lutzky for inviting me to speak on multimodal social media corpus research @wuvienna.bsky.social yesterday. I felt genuinely excited to be there and really enjoyed the discussion and the great questions☺️

I’m at the Cabinet Office to talk about Polari today.

Join us at @uonenglish.bsky.social on 9th December for a talk by @elenasemino.bsky.social on Metaphors and Narratives in Health Communication! Register here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/even...

A great talk by @paulari.bsky.social at @lancasteruni.bsky.social SHISU training event. @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

Now @tonymcenery.bsky.social discussing #CorpusLinguistics and #epistemology. Questions about paradigms, reality and science as a process. A two-day workshop at Shisu in Shanghai starting today! @corpussocialsci.bsky.social

“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language” In this episode of The We Society @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can help solve crimes & lead to justice for all: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant

New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right Location: MS Teams Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r

New issue of Annual Review of Applied Linguistics out now - its theme is Artificial Intelligence in Applied Linguistics. Well worth a look, plenty of open access content (full disclosure - I have a paper in it 😀): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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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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📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.

Postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies

The Department of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within a larger division together with Sociology and Social Anthropology, situated at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. W

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I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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!

Language & Power Podcast@languagepowerpodcast.org · 10mo ago

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

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 10mo ago

We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science. The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme. Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...