The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science will play a leading role in the new Heritage Language Consortium. The Consortium is a strategic
CASS is pleased to offer three free training events that cover the techniques of corpus linguistics and their application in three different areas. Corpus linguistics for analysis of
My doctoral thesis investigated the ‘Construction of Identities in the BBC Sitcom Citizen Khan’ by analysing a corpus of over 40,000 words, which consisted of
In 2006, The Independent published an article advertising to its readers some of the islands off the coast of New Zealand as ideal holiday destinations. Amongst descriptions
The ESRC Festival of Social Science is an annual celebration of social science research – comprised of a huge array of public events of all kinds, and
Starting from Translation Studies, as both an academic discipline and a professional practice in the early 90s, I soon embarked on the then innovative field of
On Sunday 24th September, a few of us from CASS travelled to the small Bavarian city of Erlangen, Germany, to attend ‘Texts and Images of
Here’s some good news for the beginning of the term: all Lancaster University staff and students have now access to Sketch Engine, an online tool
On behalf of Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press, it gives us great pleasure to announce the public release of the Spoken British National Corpus
Lancaster University’s MOOC in Corpus Linguistics has been hugely important to me during my doctoral research and I’ve taken it each year since it was
Andrew Hardie is delighted to announce that he has handed over his role of CASS Centre Director to Elena Semino. Elena has been Head of
In late August, I attended the 25th annual conference of EUROCALL (European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning) at the University of Southampton. This year’s theme encompassed
