Events

Event Information:

  • CASS Projects

    Overview of Projects

    Extended updates will be published as these projects progress.

    Changing Climates

    A corpus-based investigation of discourses around global warming, energy and mobilities in Brazil and Britain. It will contrast talk, text and social activities in two major economies, one in which the notion of global warming is widely accepted (Brazil) and another in which climate change scepticism is increasingly prominent in the public sphere (Britain).

    Hate Speech

    This project will take a more measured approach than that evident in the press by looking at the use of hate speech from a linguistic perspective, bringing together work in law and criminology in a project in which corpus linguists can inform the debate. The proposed research will explore to what extent we can evidentially determine linguistic triggers for prosecution, and hence a linguistic warrant for action. 

    Religion, Citizenship and Integration

    An investigation of interviews with immigrants, building on a Home Office funded project entitled ‘What Works’ which looks at the role of religion in the lives of well-integrated immigrants. This project’s goal will be to better understand how integration does, or may not, work. 100 interviews with immigrants were undertaken by the Home Office project, clustered around ancestral or broadly ethnic community and religious identity, as well as a varied group of high net-worth and/or socially influential metropolitan individuals from these backgrounds. This project will apply corpus methods to that data.

    Distressed Communities: Perception and Reality

    This project will apply thematic geo-referencing to a broad-coverage UK press corpus, mapping popularly-perceived associations between social issues (poverty, deprivation, mortality, immigration, crime) and different communities/regions/localities, to investigate how far attitudes match the reality found in statistical (especially demographic) datasets such as the UK census.

    Understanding Corporate Communications

    A comprehensive analysis of the form, content and impact of communications between large, publicly traded corporations and their key stakeholder groups concerning the following three key aspects of corporate governance: i) compliance with governance requirements and recommendations (e.g. The Combined Code in the UK); ii) executive remuneration; and iii) senior management turnover.

    Language Development, Disorders, and Environment