The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University is excited to offer the Advanced Methods in Corpus Linguistics research group in a hybrid format, welcoming both in-person and online participants. This group isn’t just for Lancaster University students and researchers – anyone interested in corpus linguistics is welcome to join.

How to join?

If you’re on campus, the best way to join is in person in County South C89. For those who can’t make it in person, just fill in the registration form and we’ll send you a Teams link.
Registration form

Contact: Prof. Vaclav Brezina (lead); Trina He (co-lead)

Topics and sessions in the Spring term 2024/25

Wed 15/01/2025 online and in person County South C89 – Research and common sense. Chapter 1
Wed 29/01/2025 online and in person County South C89 What is science? Chapter 2
Wed 12/02/2025 online and in person County South C89 How to do science? Chapter 3
Wed 26/02/2025 online and in person County South B89 What is social science and the digital humanities? Chapter 4
Wed 12/03/2025 online and in person County South B89 Forms and functions Chapter 5
Wed 26/03/2025 online and in person County South C89 Repetition and replication Chapters 6-7

Reading: McEnery & Brezina (2022). Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics. CUP.

Past topics

• Wednesday, 16 October – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Statistics and Language Analysis (#LancsBox KWIC)
• Wednesday, 30 October – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Collocations (#LancsBox GraphColl)
• Wednesday, 13 November – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Group Comparison (Text tool)
• Wednesday, 27 November – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): Wordlists and Keywords (Words)
• Wednesday, 11 December – 12:00pm–12:50pm (UK time): R Scripts and #LancsBox Wizard

Reading (Michaelmas term): Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide (Brezina, 2018).