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New Senior Research Associate in CASS: Isobelle Clarke
My name is Isobelle Clarke. I am the newest member of CASS. This is my first academic position outside of education. I am so excited about being a part of CASS, not just because I can tell all my family that I FINALLY have a job, but also because the research environment here is buzzing
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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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CASS is strengthening its links with colleagues at the University of Mosul in Iraq
As reported in the media, in recent months we have been delighted to support staff and students at the University of Mosul in Iraq who are rebuilding the Department of English after the devastation caused by the so-called Islamic State group . Via the CorpusMOOC and other forms of long-distance support, we have begun to
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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
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.