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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…
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Statistics in (Higher) Education: A few thoughts at the beginning of the new academic year
As every year around this time, university campuses are buzzing with students who are starting their studies or returning to the campus after the summer break – this incredible transformation pours life into buildings – empty spaces become lecture theatres, seminar rooms and labs. Students have the opportunity to learn many new things about the subject…
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Introductory Blog – Gavin Brookes
This is the second time I have been a part of CASS, which means that this is the second time I’ve written one of these introductory blog pieces. I first worked in CASS in 2016, on an eight-month project with Paul Baker where we looked at the feedback that patients gave about the NHS in England.…
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Using corpus methods to identify teacher strategies in guided reading: what questions do teachers ask, and what works?
In previous blogs on the CASS guided reading project, we have introduced our investigation into one of the most prevalent techniques recommended to engage children in discussion: strategic questioning. We can now reveal our key findings, which focus on the effectiveness of wh-word questioning techniques on children’s responses. Background. Guidelines encourage teachers to ask ‘high…
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: The psychological validity of non-adjacent collocations
Having recently completed my PhD in CASS, I am really excited to announce that I have been awarded an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for the upcoming academic year. My research focuses on finding neurophysiological evidence for the existence of collocations, i.e. sequences of two or more words where the words are statistically highly likely to occur…
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Compiling a trilingual corpus to examine the political and social representation(s) of ‘people’ and ‘democracy’
As a visiting researcher at CASS (coming from the University of Athens, where I am Associate Professor of Corpus Linguistics and Translation), since mid-October 2017 and until the end of August 2018, my research aim is to investigate critical aspects of populist discourses in Europe and their variation, especially during and after the 2008 financial…
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.