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Taking stock of 2020 and looking ahead to 2021
CASS Director Elena Semino reflects on CASS activities in 2020 and looks ahead at our plans for 2021.
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‘A fire raging’: Why fire metaphors work well for Covid-19
Covid-19 and metaphors Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, metaphors have been widely used, reflected upon and critiqued as a tool for communicating about the virus and its consequences. There are good reasons for this. Metaphors involve talking and thinking about one thing in terms of another, on the basis of perceived similarities or…
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CASS: Five more years
We are delighted to announce that CASS has been awarded £2.5 million funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Lancaster University to continue existing activities and pursue a new research programme for five more years, from April 2018 to March 2023. The funding, which includes £750,000 from the ESRC, will be used…
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New CASS project: Big data media analysis and the representation of urban violence in Brazil
A new project in CASS has been funded jointly by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and the Brazilian research agency CONFAP. The project will involve a collaboration between two Lancaster academics (Professors Elena Semino and Tony McEnery) and two Brazilian academics: Professor HeloÃsa Pedroso de Moraes Feltes (University of Caxias do Sul) and…
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‘The McGill Pain Questionnaire: A Linguist’s View’ and ‘Language and Art of Trigeminal Neuralgia’
On 29th June, I was invited to speak at the 2013 Conference of the UK Trigeminal Neuralgia Association, as part of an ongoing collaboration with Professor Joanna Zakrzewska, Facial Pain lead consultant at Eastman Dental Hospital in London. I gave two talks: ‘The McGill Pain Questionnaire: A Linguist’s View’ and ‘Language and Art of Trigeminal…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.