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The spectre of Nazism haunts social media
Each time there is an upsurge in the Israel-Palestine conflict there is a rise in violent and other abusive incidents against Jews around the world. This phenomenon is now well-known. So it was in 2014 with Israel’s military operation ‘Protective Edge’ in July and August. Numerous backlash incidents against Jews in the UK and elsewhere…
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The arrival of the Trinity Lancaster Learner Corpus logo
We at the Trinity Lancaster Learner Corpus team are very pleased to announce that we have a logo for our lovely corpus. We very much hope that it represents the corpus by capturing its key features. We knew we wanted to portray what we feel are the unique aspects of our corpus – interactive L2…
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Trinity Lancaster Corpus at the International ESOL Examiner Training Conference 2015
On Friday 30th January 2015, I gave a talk at the International ESOL Examiner Training Conference 2015 in Stafford. Every year, the Trinity College London, CASS’s research partner, organises a large conference for all their examiners which consists of plenary lectures and individual training sessions. This year, I was invited to speak in front of…
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A Journey into Transcription, Part 4: The Question Question
question: (NOUN) A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information. Since we speak in utterances (not sentences), most forms of punctuation are omitted in this corpus of learner language; the exceptions being apostrophes, hyphens and question marks. This blog concerns question marks. (Warning: there are not many jokes!) When we started transcription, the convention seemed…
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Towards Corpus-driven History of Contemporary Islamic Political Discourse in Turkey and Bosnia
Next month, CASS will welcome visiting researcher Dino Mujadzevic. Read more about his project in his own words, below. As a visiting researcher during February and March 2015 at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), I am looking forward to widening my knowledge on corpus-driven methods in order to integrate more empirically-grounded methodology into…
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New CASS Briefing now available — What words are most useful for learners of English?
What words are most useful for learners of English? Introducing the New General Service List. Learning vocabulary is a complex process in which the learner needs to acquire both the form and a variety of meanings of a given vocabulary item. General vocabulary lists can assist in the process of learning words by providing common vocabulary items. In response to problems…
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New CASS Partnership to Work on Mapping Online Far-Right Networks
Research staff from the ESRC-Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), King’s College London begin 2015 by undertaking a joint research project which aims to map the networks in which UK-based far-right Twitter accounts operate. The research team 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.