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CASS Enters a New Era of Innovation
Leading the Way in Corpus Linguistics The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University continues to affirm its leadership in the field of corpus linguistics. CASS provides a unique perspective on language analysis using large-scale data (millions and billions of words), cutting-edge computational tools, and specialised software to gain deep…
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Corpus Linguistics and Law: Reflections of a Legal Scholar and recent Master’s Graduate from Lancaster University
Written by Adrian Hemler, University of Konstanz, Germany Just a couple of months ago, I found myself in a curious situation: Having studied Corpus Linguistics (MA) remotely and part-time at Lancaster University’s Linguistics Department for two years, I visited the campus for the first time for an occasion that usually means farewell for most other…
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Gaining Momentum: A Scholar’s Journey Through Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster
Hanna Atcheson is a lecturer at Tomas Bata University in Zlin. She visited CASS (The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science) as a visiting scholar in October and November 2024. In this blogpost, Hanna takes us through the milestones of her academic path, offering insights into how her work has been inspired by…
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Constructions of weight loss in British and Australian newspapers
Written by Tara Coltman-Patel, Carly Bray, Paul Baker and Monika Bednarek Note: This post was simultaneously published by the Sydney Corpus Lab and by the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. It is published under a Creative Commons — Attribution Noncommercial license. If you want to republish it, please follow the relevant licensing guidelines.…
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Open Advanced Methods Research Group
📅 Fortnightly Wednesdays 12-1pm UK time Everybody is welcome. More info and registration: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/open-advanced-methods-research-group/
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Exploring New Horizons in Corpus Linguistics: Lectures, Workshops and Partnerships in Shanghai
At the end of October 2024, I had the privilege of visiting Shanghai and Suzhou. This trip was more than just a visit—it was an inspiring journey through the vibrant academic and research landscape of corpus linguistics in Eastern China. I had the chance to engage with leading research institutions such as Shanghai Jiao Tong…
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CASS’s innovation programme: New features in #LancsBox X
CASS is committed to advancing corpus linguistics through innovation. We actively seek opportunities to pioneer new techniques in corpus analysis and apply them across social science and the digital humanities. This effort is underpinned by our theoretical research (e.g. McEnery & Brezina, 2022) and practical expertise gained through our extensive portfolio of research projects. #LancsBox…
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Words, words, words: A new Frequency Dictionary of British English
If you want to know how frequently words are used in different contexts across speech and writing and with what other words these are associated, you might be interested in a new dictionary, which has just come out. This dictionary is based on the British National Corpus 2014, a large balanced dataset developed at Lancaster…
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Language Data Analysis training: live from Lancaster Castle
On 22 September 2023, CASS organised a training and outreach event “Language Data Analysis for Business and Professional Communication”. It was live streamed from the historical building of Lancaster Castle and was attended by over 500 participants (20 on site and the rest online) from both the industry and academia. The recording of the event…
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An Ode to CL2023 at Lancaster University
“Are you the official photographer?” “err…umm…well…no not exactly…” It was a question asked by many a patient person as I stuck my camera lens into their faces for the umpteenth time. Although I didn’t have a proper answer, I felt myself growing into the role over the four days as fingers automatically kept clicking at…
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.