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New CASS Briefing now available — Hate Speech: Crime against Muslims
Hate Speech: Crime against Muslims. The notion of ‘hate crime’ might conjure up an image of premeditated violence perpetrated by a bigoted thug. But in reality, a majority of so-called ‘hate crimes’ are committed with little aforethought by very ordinary people in ordinary circumstances and involve a verbal assault rather than physical attack. This briefing provides the key…
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New CASS Briefing now available — Language surrounding poverty in early modern England: Constructing seventeenth-century beggars and vagrants
Language surrounding poverty in early modern England: Constructing seventeenth-century beggars and vagrants. This briefing concentrates upon attitudes towards a subset of poor people – a group who might today be termed beggars or vagrants. Seventeenth century vagrants were a marginalised group: they were overwhelmingly illiterate and politically powerless. By undertaking a study of them, we hope to improve our understanding of a…
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Coming this year: Corpora and Discourse Studies (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics)
Three members of CASS have contributed chapters to a new volume in the Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics series. Corpora and Discourse Studies will be released later this year. The growing availability of large collections of language texts has expanded our horizons for language analysis, enabling the swift analysis of millions of words of…
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Centre Vacancy: Senior Research Associate
Linguistics & English Language Salary: £32,277 to £37,394 Closing Date: Sunday 03 May 2015 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A1198 The Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, funded by the ESRC, is seeking to appoint to an 18 month research position to work on ‘discourses on distressed communities’. This position is available from…
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Three CASS articles for special issue of Discourse & Communication available Open Access now
Discourse & Communication 9(2) will be an exciting Special Issue containing a number of articles which examine corpus-based approaches to the analysis of media discourse. CASS members Tony McEnery, Paul Baker, Amanda Potts, Mark McGlashan, and Robbie Love have contributed to three of these articles, all of which are now available for Open Access early download.…
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Mahmoud El-Haj has recently joined CASS working on the ESRC funded project “Understanding Corporate Communications”
The project is 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. Mahmoud is a…
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New CASS Briefing now available — How to communicate successfully in English?
How to communicate successfully in English? An exploration of the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. Many speakers use English as their non-native language (L2) to communicate in a variety of situations: at school, at work or in other everyday situations. As well as needing to master the grammar and vocabulary of the English language, L2 users of English need to know how to…
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.