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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · 28d

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

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Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · Aug 16

#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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Florent Moncomble’s corpus tools

A collection of tools for collecting and analysing corpora of online media discourse

corpustools.prendrelangue.fr

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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

wp.lancs.ac.uk

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jul 30

Congratulations Nathan!! 🥳🥳

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · Jul 8

An excellent article (use link).
Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience.
#Deception

crestresearch.ac.uk/download/490...

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jul 2

It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again — including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

www.cambridge.org

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jul 2

What great news, congratulations Stef!!! 🥳

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 27

If you’re going to #CL2025 and interested in either health communication, or methodology papers more broadly, our work here should be of interest. And, more importantly, it’s @janadeclercq.bsky.social’s first corpus conference, so do say hello if you see her! 😉😀

Jana Declercq @janadeclercq.bsky.social · Jun 27

Getting ready to go to Corpus Linguistics in Birmingham #CL2025 next week! Will be presenting the paper I've written with @mathewingram.com and Isolde van Dorst. We've compared patients' and health care providers' discourses in chronic pain consultations, using a corpus-assisted DA approach.

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 27

I am the other Mathew-with-one-t, pleased to meet you! 🤝

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 27

Now time for a summer holiday along Australia’s east coast. All completely new for us so recommendations welcome!

Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 27

That’s a wrap on #IPrA2025! We organised a panel on regional (im)politeness variation, presented our own work on variation in the USA, and then gave a methods paper looking at discourses of chronic pain from both an interactional sociolinguistics and a CADS perspective. What a great few days. 🇦🇺

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Daria Dayter @coocho.bsky.social · Jun 25

The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!

Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · Jun 25

IPrA in 2027 - Helsinki

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 25

We visited a couple of days ago!! Aren’t they cute? We were really surprised to see how many there were!

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 24

This week I’m in Brisbane for the #IPrA2025 conference. It was straight into it last Saturday, giving a pre-conference workshop on Corpus Pragmatics with participants from 11 countries. A real delight! 🇦🇺

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · Jun 22

International Pragmatics Conference just kicking off at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Always a great opportunity to pick up conversations with so many friends and colleagues as if no time had passed since we last met.

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thanks to those posting from #ICAME46 this week so we can follow along vicariously. 😀 This workshop yesterday on speech act development sounded really great.

Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Jun 17

First day of #ICAME46 will be the busiest for me. Co-hosting the workshop on "Speech Acts in Formal and Informal Interactions in English: Mapping the Past, Exploring the Future" with @racheledf.bsky.social & Christine Elsweiler & presenting on complaints later 🤞

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 11

A few photos from Bergen last week during the Association for Business Communication conference where I presented some work on the discourse of corporate wrongdoing. Stunning city with some particularly friendly four-legged residents who don’t seem to mind the chilly summers! 🇳🇴

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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · Jun 8

🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography

👩‍💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?

📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.

🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca...

#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH

CADSbib. An annotated bibliography for corpus and discourse research | Nathan Dykes

nfdykes.github.io

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Jun 7

This CfP for a special issue of Corpus Pragmatics (ed. by P. Madella) looks really great. It promises to make a significant contribution to a more linguistically-informed approach to deception (detection) - something much needed!

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Jun 6

Calls: Corpus Pragmatics, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics - "Corpus Pragmatics in Forensic Contexts" (Jrnl)

We're inviting studies applying a Corpus Pragmatics approach to investigative and forensic text/discourse analysis, within Forensic Linguistics, including investigations into the detection of discursive deception and manipulation. The special issue is dedicated to showing the use of a mixed methods approach, combining the quantitative element of corpus-assisted investigation and a context-rich analysis and interpretation, in forensic and legal contexts. We look forward to receiving your manusc

dlvr.it

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · May 27

New paper out in the International Journal of Business Communication on corporate wrongdoing -- specifically how Boeing navigated the 737 Max crisis a few years ago. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1177/2329...

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Apr 30

Travelling to the UK this morning to attend and give a plenary at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics. I’ll be talking about using corpus methods to study variational (im)politeness - really looking forward to being back north for a few days. 😄 mfilconf.wordpress.com

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Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social · Mar 25

After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/

Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool

ucrel.lancs.ac.uk

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Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social · Mar 3

I was recently interviewed as part of @wuvienna.bsky.social's "Meet our Researchers" series. They put together a nice video about using corpus linguistics to study climate change discourse, based on my paper with Carmen Dayrell. Really happy with how this turned out! www.wu.ac.at/en/research/...

WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

www.wu.ac.at

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Vienna University of Economics and Business @wuvienna.bsky.social · Mar 3

What do you think of when you hear the term "climate change"? Whatever it may be, it's probably partly shaped by the media.

WU researcher @mathewgillings.bsky.social has looked into the discourse around climate change in UK newspapers. In our newest video, he shares some interesting results:

Climate Change and the Media | Meet Our Researchers: Mathew Gillings

YouTube video by Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

www.youtube.com

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