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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…
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Introductory Blog – Yufeng Liu ( Kiki )
Hello! My name is Yufeng Liu, also known as Kiki, and I have recently joined the CASS team as a Senior Research Associate on the 4D PICTURE project (https://4dpicture.eu/). This project, funded by the EU Horizon with a budget of nine million euros across sixteen partners, aims to transform health care decision-making in oncology by…
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Introductory Blog – Dr Alexandra Krendel
Hello! My name is Alexandra Krendel and I have joined the CASS team as a Senior Research Associate on the Future of Human Reproduction project. This project involves investigating the cultural, ethical, legal and social implications of technological developments in human reproduction such as ectogenesis (pregnancy outside of the womb), in-vitro gametogenesis (creating egg/sperm cells…
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CHIMED-3: The third International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse
Photo credit: Niall Curry On two (mostly) sunny May days last week, CHIMED-3, the third International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse was held at the beautiful and very apt location of Mary Ward House, in London. Built in 1898, the building has housed a great many initiatives to support education, community, health, wellbeing and the arts,…
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Mentoring Social Science Researchers in Corpus Methods and Critical Discourse Analysis: Final Symposium at Keele University
Yuze Sha, with Luke Collins On 25th January, members of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science joined colleagues from across universities in the North West to participate in a Symposium, celebrating the work of postgraduate students getting to learn how to use methods from corpus linguistics in their existing research. In September…
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A new addition to the Brown Family: BE21
Back in the 1960s, the Brown Corpus was the first corpus ever created – 1 million words of written standard American English from 15 registers, across 500 text samples, all around 2,000 words in size. Since then, there have been matched versions to cover the 1930s, the 1990s and the 2000s. Today’s reference corpora can…
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Introductory Blog – Emma Putland
My name is Emma Putland and I’m really excited to have recently joined the team here at CASS. More specifically, I’m the Senior Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Public Discourses of Dementia Project, led by Dr Gavin Brookes. This project recognises the important role that language and imagery play in perpetuating, but also resisting, stigmatising…
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