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Centre Vacancy: Senior Research Associate in Corpus Linguistics
Post A793 Linguistics & English Language Salary: £31,331 to £36,298 Closing Date: Sunday 20 October 2013 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A793 The Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, funded by the ESRC, is seeking to appoint to 4 year research contract in the area of corpus linguistics and language teaching/assessment. You will…
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“It’s all sex and celebrity now”: Page three corpus linguistics
On Monday (16th October) on page three of the Daily Mail, the readers could come across a short article about changes in the English lexicon with a title: “Forget supper and soup… it’s all sex and celebrity now”. (A longer version of the article is available online.) The article quoted some data from the New…
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The New General Service List (new-GSL) is out
The new-GSL is an English vocabulary baseline intended for both researchers and practitioners. It is based on robust comparison of four corpora of general English of the total size of over 12 billion words. It contains 2,494 vocabulary items, 2,116 of which belong to a stable lexical core; 378 words in the wordlist represent lexical…
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ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Science 2013: feedback
In the week of 16th – 19th July 2013, CASS organised the first Summer school for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers in social science disciplines with an interest in the methods of corpus linguistics. Twenty participants from 15 different Higher Education institutions form the UK and overseas (Israel, Brazil, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy) attended the…
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Vocabulary wordlists designed for learners: Development of the new-GSL
Imagine you have just started learning a new foreign language. Which words do you need to learn first? We all might have some intuitions about this. If the language is English then time – the most frequent noun both in speech and writing – will probably be more useful than say the adjective temporaneous (yes,…
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.