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iCourts and CASS formalise collaboration, begin first joint project
Last week, I had the honour of returning to iCourts, a centre of excellence for international courts dedicated to investigating the role of international courts in globalising legal order, as well as their impact on politics and society. iCourts is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation and located at the University of Copenhagen. During…
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New CASS: Briefing now available — Opposing gay rights in UK Parliament: Then and now
Opposing gay rights in UK Parliament: Then and now. How has the expression of opposition to gay rights changed in Parliamentary speeches in recent years? How are discussions of gay people involved in these changes? To what extent could these arguments be seen as homophobic? Read this CASS: Briefing of a diachronic corpus-based discourse analysis to find out…
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How to be a PhD student (by someone who just was), Part 1: Preparing for the programme
In December 2013, after three years and two months of work, I submitted my PhD thesis. Last month, I successfully defended it, and made the (typographical) corrections in two nights. I’m a Doctor! It’s still exciting to say. A PhD is certainly not easy — I’ve heard it compared to giving birth, starting and ending…
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Opportunity for a PhD student to work with the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), in conjunction with Cognizant, is offering a suitably qualified PhD student the opportunity to work on a project focussed on Twitter usage and brand management. The successful candidate will work at Cognizant in Bangalore on a joint project looking at the role the social media…
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Introducing CASS 1+3 Research Student: Robbie Love
In 2013, the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science was pleased to award its inaugural 1+3 (Masters to PhD) studentship to Robbie Love. Read a bit about the first year of his postgraduate experience, in Robbie’s own words below. I am a Research Student at CASS in the first year of a 1+3…
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Introducing Challenge Panel Member: John Flowerdew
Our latest Challenge Panel introduction comes from Professor John Flowerdew via the City University of Hong Kong. Read his brief autobiography below. The person who introduced me to corpus linguistics was the sadly departed John Sinclair of Birmingham University and later the Tuscan Word Centre, a man who can be considered a doyen of corpus…
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Exploring the grammar of Netflix in The Atlantic
A journalist with The Atlantic has used AntConc — a concordance program by CASS affiliate scholar Laurence Anthony — to deconstruct and reconstruct the grammar of Netflix genre descriptions. “If you use Netflix, you’ve probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it’s absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period…
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.