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Time to Celebrate: Trinity Lancaster Corpus
On Wednesday 30 October, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches (CASS) organised a small get-together in its new location, Bailrigg House, to celebrate the research that is being carried out at the centre. Specifically, on this occasion, we wanted to highlight the Trinity Lancaster Corpus, a corpus of spoken learner English built in collaboration between…
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Islam in the Media – A new CASS project working with The Aziz Foundation
We are very pleased to announce that in our next CASS project we will be working with The Aziz Foundation to examine representations of Islam in the British press. The project will be led by Tony McEnery (Principal Investigator) with Gavin Brookes as Co-Investigator. We are also delighted to announce that Isobelle Clarke will be…
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‘Collaborations between Linguistics and the Professions’ event – Three participants’ views
On 4th-6th March 2019, we organised an event on ‘Collaborations between Linguistics and the Professions’. If you missed it, here are three reports from early-career researchers – one for each day. Day One – by Mathew Gillings The aim and focus of the Collaborations between Linguistics and the Professions event was to look at connections…
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CASS Down Under!
Earlier this month, a few members of the CASS team travelled to Australia to give talks and deliver workshops at two of the Country’s most prestigious universities – Australian National University (Canberra) and The University of Sydney. Our journey begins in Sydney, where on the 18th March, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Tony McEnery and Elena Semino spoke at the Corpus Showcase…
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Corpus methods and multimodal data: A new approach
By William Dance, Alex Christiansen and Alexander Wild Within corpus linguistics, multimodality is a subject which is often overlooked. While there are multiple projects tackling multimodal interactional elements in corpora, such as the French interaction corpus RECOLA and the video meeting repository REPERE, corpus linguistic approaches generally tend to struggle when faced with extra-textual content…
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A cognitive scientist’s perspective on taking the CorpusMOOC
Rose Hendricks, a researcher at the Frameworks Institute in Washington D.C., shares her experience of taking the CorpusMOOC: ‘I’m a social science researcher and have been curious for a while how we can learn more about human culture and cognition by looking at large collections of language — so I jumped at the opportunity to take the Corpus…
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Introductory Blog – Luke Collins
I am delighted to have joined the CASS team as Senior Research Associate and will be working across the new programme of studies in Corpus Approaches to Health(care) Communication. I have already begun working on a fascinating strand exploring the Narratives of Voice-hearers and I will be working closely with Professor Elena Semino in applying…
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.