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Gavin Brookes
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Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University｜UKRI Future Leader Fellow｜Fulbright @ NAU｜Associate Editor of IJCL｜Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS｜FRSA

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 14d
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...
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 1d
New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️
Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study
This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...
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Language & Power Podcast @languagepowerpodcast.org · 8d
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
S5 Episode 5: Changing climate, changing discourse- panel discussion — Language/Power Podcast
In this special episode, recorded at the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress held in Glasgow this summer, we have an expert panel discussion on 'Changing Climate, Changing Discourse...
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Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social · 9d
The timeline for the projects discussed in this book roughly maps onto my time with @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and will stand proudly on my bookshelf.

Was fun to write, too.

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Copies of the book, Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 14d
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...
Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 15d
Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 15d
“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · 16d
Today’s keynote is Gavin Brookes on "Corpus linguistics for gender and language research".

One striking example: James Bond’s masculinity is, among other things, constructed through silence (most frequent trigram in the Fleming corpus is "bond said nothing").

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#DHSS2025
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 17d
We had two fantastic sessions this morning!

– Prof. Michaela Mahlberg gave us a great introduction to digital humanities @michamahlberg.bsky.social
– Prof. Anna Foka delivered an inspiring first keynote on AI & heritage

Fantastic vibes all around! ✨

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 17d
One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...
Details on conference call for papers, available at the link. Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 17d
OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data.

In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.

#BERT

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins
Abstract A wealth of linguistic data has been annotated by corpus linguists, and this extant annotated data can be used to automatically replicate and apply the linguist’s annotation scheme by means o...
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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 21d
We can’t wait to welcome our great keynote speakers at next week’s Summer School!
Find out more details about their sessions on our website.

@annafoka.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mkschumacher.bsky.social
#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 22d
Congratulations!
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 27d
OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data.

Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Evaluating a transparent and interpretable approach to stance detection using linguistic markers in social media data | John Benjamins
Abstract Our study focuses on replicability, which entails researchers’ ability to achieve similar results to a prior study using identical methods but a different yet comparable dataset. We address t...
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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 27d
Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · 29d
Great to the schedule for the #DHSS2025 summer school out! An amazing programme is waiting for our participants ☺️
#DataGenderSociety #DH #DigitalHumanities

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Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society
If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 29d
That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?

@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics

What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 29d
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!
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 4
It's a lovely part of the country - sorry to have missed you!
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 4
I was honoured today to give a keynote speech on working with sociodemographic metadata for online language corpora, at the 12th CMC Conference at the University of Bayreuth 🇩🇪 Grateful to the audience for their engagement and great questions! @unibayreuth.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
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Eugeニア Diegoli @diegolieugenia.bsky.social · Sep 2
📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇
tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd

I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 2
The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Sep 2
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Sep 2
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · Sep 2
A privilege to speak with Ruth Wodak and Chair @katherineeruss1.bsky.social today at @fomatplay.bsky.social Conference in Granada about CDA, corpus linguistics, migration, and discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com · Sep 2
Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online

🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social

@livunienglish.bsky.social

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Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online
Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Aug 20
Out now! #openaccess paper in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, exploring the issue of alignment between AI and Applied Linguistics, with @niallrcurry.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · Aug 20
Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!
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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · Aug 20
Reposting this as it is now actually open access 🔓✨ (promise!). You can find the it here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org. See the post below ⬇️ for some more detail!
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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · Aug 20
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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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Aug 19
OUT NOW: Qiao Gan and Min Wang examine divergence in the probabilistic grammar of the dative alternation between native English speakers and Chinese EFL learners.

Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation.

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Examining contextual constraints on the English dative alternation in L2 written production | John Benjamins
Abstract This study examines how contextual factors influence the English dative alternation in written production by Chinese EFL learners, with native English usage serving as the benchmark for compa...
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Aug 19
OUT NOW: Heng Gong, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu compare the use of interactive metadiscourse features in research articles written by Chinese scholars in Chinese and in English, alongside L1 English texts.

How do writers adapt to the different language contexts?
Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups | John Benjamins
Abstract Although English has become a lingua franca for academic publication, a growing number of multilingual scholars prefer to publish in both English and their first languages. This corpus-based ...
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