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Introducing Challenge Panel Member: John Flowerdew
Our latest Challenge Panel introduction comes from Professor John Flowerdew via the City University of Hong Kong. Read his brief autobiography below. The person who introduced me to corpus linguistics was the sadly departed John Sinclair of Birmingham University and later the Tuscan Word Centre, a man who can be considered a doyen of corpus…
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Feature Challenge Panel Member: Yukio Tono
For this week’s Challenge Panel introduction, we are proud to feature Professor Yukio Tono, who joins us from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Read his brief autobiography below. I am a professor in corpus linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. I finished my PhD at Lancaster University under the supervision of Tony McEnery…
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A criminologist’s introduction to AntConc and concordance analysis
My name is Julian Hargreaves (j.hargreaves2@lancaster.ac.uk) and I’m a newcomer to these parts: a non-linguist and an outsider. Okay, the last bit is a slight exaggeration. I’m a member of the CASS Challenge Panel (an advisory board within CASS) representing post-graduate students from disciplines other than linguistics. I’m also a PhD student at the Lancaster…
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Introducing CASS Challenge Panel Member: Douglas Biber
This week, we are proud to announce Douglas Biber’s membership on the CASS Challenge Panel. Find his brief autobiographical introduction below. I have been interested in lots of different research issues over my career, but for the most part, these have all involved the analysis of linguistic variation in natural texts, and the description of…
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Introducing Challenge Panel Member: Karin Aijmer
We are very pleased to announce Karin Aijmer’s membership on the CASS Challenge Panel. An introduction, in her own words: I am Professor Emerita in English Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg. I have been using corpora and corpus-linguistic methods to study topics in several different areas. One of my research areas involves the study…
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Introducing Challenge Panel Member: Fiona Farr
We are happy to announce Dr Fiona Farr’s membership on the CASS Challenge Panel. Dr Fiona Farr is Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where she is also a member of the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), and the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Research Group. Her background is…
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.