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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · 23d

Such amazing news, congratulations!! 🎊

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BAAL Health & Science SIG @baal-health-sig.bsky.social · 23d

@baal-health-sig.bsky.social are now looking for a SIG Secretary. This post offers a great opportunity to get involved with the linguistics health and science communication community, BAAL more broadly and to help steer the direction of the SIG. For info, please go to baalhealthsci.wordpress.com

Health and Science Communication SIG

The Health and Science Communication BAAL Special Interest Group

baalhealthsci.wordpress.com

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you to all contributors to this @corpussocialsci.bsky.social event: two days of thought-provoking presentations on different issues in health communication, using different methodologies and with data from Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. See you all at the next @ic4ch.bsky.social event!

International Consortium for Communication in Health Care @ic4ch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Join us for our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK

Early bird registration is open until June 15th registration.lancaster.ac.uk/Registration...

More info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Image shows the entrance of Lancaster Castle in spring.

Image shows day 1 of the programme, which can be read in full as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025

09.30 - 10.15 Registration
10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address
10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics
How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of Pandemics
14.30 - 15.00 Break
15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations
16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion

Image shows day 2 of the programme, which can be read in full as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025

09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life
15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion
16.00 – 16.20 Event Close

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Gavin Lamb @gavinlamb.org · Sep 6

"Since 1800, there’s been a sharp decline in nature-related words in English language books. It closely matches a simulation of nature–human interactions." A new piece in @grist.org by Kate Yoder, with some #ecolinguistics input from @repoole.bsky.social grist.org/language/nat...

The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.

We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.

grist.org

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

5. There's so much more than can be put into a post! During the book prize panel, an editor asked a question that is one of many that I'm still seriously thinking about: 'who does our research serve?'
I've had many wonderful conversations with colleagues and look forward to the rest of #baal2025!

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

4. Another highlight was @lucyjones.bsky.social's plenary in the afternoon - as ever from Lucy, it was both thought-provoking and inspiring. I learnt a lot from her discussion of the different aspects of taking an intersectional lens and enjoyed her openness about learning from mistakes!

Image summarises principles of intersectional sociocultural linguistic analysis:
1. Intra-categorical in outlook
2. Considers both oppression and privilege
3. Takes a thick approach to account for individual social locations
4. Understands speakers to be agentive
5. Is reflexive

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

3. I loved attending the @baal-health-sig.bsky.social panel, featuring Olivia Knapton's great work with people with insect/bug phobias, Esranur Efeoglu-Ozcan's innovative comparative study of climate crisis framings, and Mimi Huang's important work with volunteer waterside responders.

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

2. It was a pleasure to follow Run Li when I presented on representations of dementia and generative AI. I loved hearing about his work with Xiang Huang on multimodal discursive strategies in public health communication. We were lucky to have great questions from the audience!

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

1. Kamran Khan's fantastic opening plenary titled Language, Security and Governance through Terror. This talk made me reflect on many things but especially the concept of a pharmakon (meaning both a remedy and a poison, with the degree of each varying according to the context).

Image shows a slide discussing pharmakon as both remedy and posion.

Quote from Derrida (1981: 70/72)"This medicine, this philter which acts as both remedy and poison...permitted the rendering of the same word by 'remedy', 'recipe', 'poison', 'drug', 'philter' etc"

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

As we enter day 2 of #baal2025, I'm reflecting on all of the thoughtful talks, plenaries and conversations from yesterday. Some of my personal highlights include:

Image shows a rainbow at the end of a street in Glasgow.

Image shows a marble staircase in Glasgow City Chambers.

Image shows a grand hallway in Glasgow City Chambers.

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much to @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social for your summary and response to my talk at #baal2025 - there are some impressive speed typing skills on display there and it's really interesting to read your thoughts and experiment with a prompt that aims to avoid dementia stereotypes!

Stephen Pihlaja @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now @emma-putland.bsky.social talking about dementia and genAI. #baal2025

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much for attending and for sharing your thoughtful comments and questions, @lucyjones.bsky.social!

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastic and fascinating talk on the reductive, limited representations of dementia in generative AI from @uonenglish.bsky.social alumnus @emma-putland.bsky.social #BAAL2025

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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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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

www.edx.org

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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 31

Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!

Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026 – 23-25 June 2026

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International Consortium for Communication in Health Care @ic4ch.bsky.social · Jul 16

It's less than two months until our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK (in person) or Microsoft Teams (free online)

For more info and to register, see: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025
09.30 - 10.15 Registration
10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address
10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health
Shared decision making, health literacy and management of heart failure: an analysis of patients’ interactions through their hospital journey.
Susy Macqueen, Diana Slade and Suzanne Raine (Australian National University)
Enhancing Patient Engagement in Oncology-Specific Genetic Counselling: A
Conversation Analytic Approach
K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Communicating dementia: A reflection on AI-generated images and texts
Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics
How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of
Pandemics
Elizabeth A. Rider (Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA)
The mental health of university graduates in a post-COVID world: A mixed methods sociolinguistic approach
Olga Zayts-Spence, Paul W.C. Wong, David Matthew Edmonds (University of
Hong Kong)
Challenges and Opportunities in Participatory Surveillance for Dengue
Prevention: A Sri Lankan Case Study
Prasad Wimalaratne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) and May O. Lwin
(Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
14.30 - 15.00 Break
15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations
Post-pandemic challenges in communication about vaccines
Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK)
Enhancing the value and wider benefit of research into Coronavirus Discourses: A Pan-London Immunisation Campaign
Svenja Adolphs, Emma McClaughlin and Sara Vilar-Lluch (University of
Nottingham and Cardiff University, UK)
The problem with ‘side effects’
Zsófia Demjén (University College London, UK)
16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion

Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025
09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings
Intercultural moments in emergency calls: Issues of access, accommodation, and attitude
Jennifer Watermeyer and Rhona Nattrass (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
(In)equality, (in)visibilised diversity and exclusion: the ideological framing of language in NHS interpreting and translation guidelines.
Emma Brooks (University College London, UK)
Medical consultations with older adult patients in a multicultural setting: Dynamics of doctor-patient communication and the impact of companions
May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings
“It just made me feel very broken”: Self-reported experiences of medical misogyny in UK pregnancy loss consultations
Beth Malory (University College London, UK)
How REACHE equips asylum seeker and refugee doctors for safe and effective practice in the NHS
Hayley Poulson (Refugee and Asylum Seekers Centre for Healthcare
Professionals Education (REACHE Northwest), Salford Royal Hospital, UK)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life
The EMPATHY Protocol: Modern Support in Challenging Moments of Patient Care
Aldona Katarzyna Jankowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Poland)
The taboo of communication about assisted dying
Nancy Preston (Lancaster University, UK)
How to Talk about Dying? Lessons Learned from a Swiss Framework for Teaching Compassionate Communication about the End of Life
Sibylle Felber (University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Switzerland)
15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion
16.00 – 16.20 Event Close

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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 13

Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · Jun 17

Really enjoying being part of the CASS Lancaster Summer Schools this week! It's great getting to meet so many fantastic people during a week dedicated to corpus linguistics! 😊✨️ #LancsSS25

CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · Jun 17

🖥️In our second practical session of the week, @emma-putland.bsky.social demonstrates two methods of corpus building on #Lancsbox X: a manual method and an automatic method. #LancsSS25

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International Consortium for Communication in Health Care @ic4ch.bsky.social · Jun 4

Join us for our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK

Early bird registration is open until June 15th registration.lancaster.ac.uk/Registration...

More info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · May 23

Enjoyed giving a plenary talk at the CIRLAM conference today, and sharing work on generative AI, discourse and ideology with @emma-putland.bsky.social & Chris Chikodzore-Paterson. Great questions and discussion afterwards, too! @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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International Consortium for Communication in Health Care @ic4ch.bsky.social · Apr 28

📬Registration is now open for the 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH)!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK

For more event information (registration, programme, speakers, abstracts, etc.) see ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Image shows day 1 of the programme, which can be read as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Symposium Programme
Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025

09.30 - 10.15 Registration
10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address
10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health
Sex differences on a forum about anxiety
Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
Shared decision making, health literacy and management of heart failure: an analysis of patients’ interactions through their hospital journey.
Susy Macqueen, Diana Slade and Suzanne Raine (Australian National University)
Communicating dementia: Comparing AI-generated stereotypes to experience-led discussions
Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics
How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of Pandemics
Elizabeth A. Rider (Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA)
The mental health of university graduates in a post-COVID world: A mixed-methods sociolinguistic approach
Olga Zayts-Spence, Paul W.C. Wong, David Matthew Edmonds (University of Hong Kong)
Challenges and Opportunities in Participatory Surveillance for Dengue Prevention: A Sri Lankan Case Study
Prasad Wimalaratne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) and May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
14.30 - 15.00 Break
15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations
Post-pandemic challenges in communication about vaccines
Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK)
Enhancing the value and wider benefit of research into Coronavirus Discourses: A Pan-London Immunisation Campaign
Svenja Adolphs, Emma McClaughlin and Sara Vilar-Lluch (University of Nottingham and Cardiff University, UK)
The problem with ‘side effects’
Zsófia Demjén (University College London, UK)
16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion

Image shows day 2 of the programme, which can be read as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/

Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025

09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings
Intercultural moments in emergency calls: Issues of access, accommodation, and attitude
Jennifer Watermeyer and Rhona Nattrass (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
(In)equality, (in)visibilised diversity and exclusion: the ideological framing of language in NHS interpreting and translation guidelines.
Emma Brooks (University College London, UK)
Medical consultations with older adult patients in a multicultural setting: Dynamics of doctor-patient communication and the impact of companions
May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
11.00 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings
Enhancing Patient Engagement in Oncology-Specific Genetic Counselling: A Conversation Analytic Approach
K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
How REACHE equips asylum seeker and refugee doctors for safe and effective practice in the NHS
Hayley Poulson (Refugee and Asylum Seekers Centre for Healthcare Professionals Education (REACHE Northwest), Salford Royal Hospital, UK)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life
The EMPATHY Protocol: Modern Support in Challenging Moments of Patient Care
Aldona Katarzyna Jankowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Poland)
The taboo of communication about assisted dying
Nancy Preston (Lancaster University, UK)
How to Talk about Dying? Lessons Learned from a Swiss Framework for Teaching Compassionate Communication about the End of Life
Sibylle Felber (University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Switzerland)
15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion
16.00 – 16.20 Event Close

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Public Discourses of Dementia @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social · Apr 1

We have a new blog post!

Here, @emma-putland.bsky.social, @fliss-slocombe.bsky.social, Hannah Thompson-Radford and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social explore how football, traumatic brain injury and dementia are represented in the British Press:

wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...

Text bubbles say New blog post! Football, traumatic brain injury and dementia in UK news.

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Mar 26

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 · Mar 25

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 😊

Challenging Stigma and Promoting Personhood – Lancaster University

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Public Discourses of Dementia @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social · Mar 25

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 😊

Challenging Stigma and Promoting Personhood – Lancaster University

wp.lancs.ac.uk

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