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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Copies of the book, Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 13d

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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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 13d

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 · 14d

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 · 14d

“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 · 14d

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").

@gavinbrookes.bsky.social
#DHSS2025

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 16d

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.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16d

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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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 20d

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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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 16d

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

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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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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations!

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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 26d

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 · 26d

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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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · 28d

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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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · 28d

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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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · 28d

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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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 · Sep 2

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

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 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: 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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