Sarcasm is one of the phenomena that seems to have endless fascination for British people, partly because they are stereotypically associated with it. When did
The ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences was inaugurated in 2013; the 2014 event is the second in the series. It will
Britain is still a nation of polite people and fears that texts, tweets and Facebook are making people ruder is a myth, according to research
Post-event review of the one-day workshop at Lancaster University Topics don’t come much hotter than the forms of impoliteness or aggression that are associated with
Last month, I received an interesting email about some terms that London commuters might be very familiar with: We at London Underground currently operate the
The official opening of the £4.1 million ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) took place on Tuesday, 23 July 2013, at the
“Teaching and Learning (Im)politeness: An International (Im)politeness Conference“, will be held at SOAS, University of London, 8-10 July. I will be giving a talk with
We are very pleased to issue the first call for participation for our ESRC Summer School in Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences, which will take
