Politeness and impoliteness in digital communication: Corpus-related explorations
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
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
If, six months ago, you had told me that an assignment I was writing during my undergraduate degree would eventually send me to China for
Post A793 Linguistics & English Language Salary: £31,331 to £36,298 Closing Date: Sunday 20 October 2013 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: A793 The Centre
The version of the EEBO-TCP data that has been available on Lancaster University’s CQPweb server is now rather old (the TCP project adds text to the collection on a
On Monday (16th October) on page three of the Daily Mail, the readers could come across a short article about changes in the English lexicon
We are happy to announce Dr Fiona Farr’s membership on the CASS Challenge Panel. Dr Fiona Farr is Dean of Teaching and Learning at the
In two weeks, several scholars affiliated with the Centre will be heading south to attend the 5th International Language in the Media Conference, taking place this year
The new-GSL is an English vocabulary baseline intended for both researchers and practitioners. It is based on robust comparison of four corpora of general English
We are extraordinarily pleased to announce Michael Hoey’s membership to the CASS Challenge Panel. Below, Professor Hoey shares a bit about his personal and professional
In 2011 I gave a plenary talk on how American English is changing over time (contrasting it with British English), using the Brown Family of
The latest in our series of Challenge Panel introductions is Alan Partington, in his own words: I work at Bologna University in Italy and live
Next in our series of Challenge Panel announcements, we are pleased to introduce Mark Davies (creator of the COCA, COHA, and TIME Magazine corpora, among others).