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CASS presentation at Cambridge University Centre of Islamic Studies symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime
The CASS ‘Hate Speech’ project team were invited on the 16th of June to present some of our findings at a Symposium on Anti-Muslim Hate Crime held at the University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies. The Symposium was organised by Julian Hargreaves, a Lancaster University Law School PhD student and Research Associate at the…
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2014/15 in retrospective: Perspectives on Chinese
Looking back over the academic year as it draws to a close, one of the highlights for us here at CASS was the one-day seminar we hosted in January on Perspectives on Chinese: Talks in Honour of Richard Xiao. This event celebrated the contributions to linguistics of CASS co-investigator Dr. Richard Zhonghua Xiao, on the…
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CASS Corpus Linguistics workshop at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS, Brazil)
Last month at UCS (Brazil), the CASS Corpus Linguistics workshop found a receptive audience who participated actively and enthusiastically engaged in the discussion. The workshop was run from 27-28 May by CASS members Elena Semino, Vaclav Brezina and Carmen Dayrell, and perfectly organised by the local committee HeloÃsa Feltes and Ana Pelosi. This workshop brought…
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New CASS Briefing now available — Hate Speech: Crime against Muslims
Hate Speech: Crime against Muslims. The notion of ‘hate crime’ might conjure up an image of premeditated violence perpetrated by a bigoted thug. But in reality, a majority of so-called ‘hate crimes’ are committed with little aforethought by very ordinary people in ordinary circumstances and involve a verbal assault rather than physical attack. This briefing provides the key…
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The heart of the matter …
How wonderful it is to get to the inner workings of the creature you helped bring to life! I’ve just spent a week with the wonderful – and superbly helpful – team at CASS devoting time to matters on the Trinity Lancaster Spoken Corpus. Normally I work from London situated in the very 21st century…
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New CASS Briefing now available — Language surrounding poverty in early modern England: Constructing seventeenth-century beggars and vagrants
Language surrounding poverty in early modern England: Constructing seventeenth-century beggars and vagrants. This briefing concentrates upon attitudes towards a subset of poor people – a group who might today be termed beggars or vagrants. Seventeenth century vagrants were a marginalised group: they were overwhelmingly illiterate and politically powerless. By undertaking a study of them, we hope to improve our understanding of a…
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Coming this year: Corpora and Discourse Studies (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics)
Three members of CASS have contributed chapters to a new volume in the Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics series. Corpora and Discourse Studies will be released later this year. The growing availability of large collections of language texts has expanded our horizons for language analysis, enabling the swift analysis of millions of words of…
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Centre Vacancy: Senior Research Associate
Linguistics & English Language Salary: £32,277 to £37,394 Closing Date: Sunday 03 May 2015 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A1198 The Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, funded by the ESRC, is seeking to appoint to an 18 month research position to work on ‘discourses on distressed communities’. This position is available from…
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.