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📢 new 🔓open access paper in Language Teaching @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social with @tonymcenery.bsky.social, "Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda". You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... and a short thread below ⬇️ on what it addresses

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So pumped that this @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social volume THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF MIGRANT IDENTITIES is finally in my hands !! Thanks to the editors @proftaylor.bsky.social, @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dumore and reviewers. Thanks to my fab coauthor @elenainlimbo.bsky.social #discourse

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Want to know how LLMs might be able to help you in your corpus research project? Come along to my session at IATEFL and find out! #IATEFL2025

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Out now: my monograph 'Corpus Approaches to Discourse in Forensic and Legal Contexts' available for purchase as hardback and ebook. www.routledge.com/Corpus-Appro...

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Take a look at that programme! If that isn‘t worth a trip to Erlangen… You still got today to register ⏳

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Out now: our paper 'Discourses of Force and Failure: The Construction of Crisis in the Policing of UK Climate Change Protests' (@crkennedy.bsky.social) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Really interesting review here ⬇️ with a lot of food for thought!

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✨📝 If you're interested in issues at the intersection of climate & health crises & global knowledge construction, check out my new chapter with @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, “The discursive framing of the climate and health polycrisis in English, French, and Spanish”. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal. #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...

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Pleased to see our conceptual replication published recently ⬇️ www.castledown.com/journals/jal... #CALL

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Looking forward to welcoming both in person and online attendees to Lancaster for our 2025 health and science communication workshop series this March! We've got great speakers and fascinating topics lined up... For more information and to register, see: baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/2...

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A reminder that we are hosting the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG event on the topic of Inequalities, inclusion and innovation Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid) Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only) Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Looking forward to our book launch on 24th January!

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An article of stunned languaging, theorising a genre of grief and a scholarship of heartbreak. Written in times of education failures and language attacks. An article Alison and I wish we didn’t have to write. Hospicing Gaza is call.. #KeepTellingofGaza

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We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

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Very excited to announce the launch of a brand new book series: Bloomsbury Advances in Forensic and Legal Linguistics. It will publish full-length monographs & edited volumes in all areas of the discipline. If you have a book idea developing, or a proposal in the works, then please get in touch.

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ugp.rug.nl/cadaad/artic... New article out with Simon Statham in CADAAD journal on multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail

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A talk that speaks to children’s wor(l)ds, working with language as a verb and inviting the multi-modal, the multi-lingual, the embodied, the creative, the spoken, the written while challenging deficient narratives around multilingual children in mainstream education

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CfP for "Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches" hosted by Dis-4Change: Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse Interuniversity Research Centre. dis4change-researchcentre.eu/events/confe...

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Our position paper on the sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling is out now in Frontiers in AI! www.frontiersin.org/journals/art... We argue that sociolinguistics holds the key to understanding and improving large language models.

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Pleased to see our dictionary app report now available on the Hornby website: www.hornby-trust.org.uk/a-s-hornby-d... We created a corpus based app for Physics students at the Middle East College in Oman ☺️

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New #corpuslinguistics #criticaldiscourseanalysis chapter out: "EU citizens as migrants and the search for value in post-Brexit UK" @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @elenainlimbo.bsky.social A thread 👇👇 👇

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Happy to share a new 🔓open access paper on questions in expert discourses surrounding the climate crisis in Enlgish, French, and Spanish. You can find the paper here: publicera.kb.se/njes/article... and a short thread below on its main points of discussion and findings ⬇️

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Excited to see this out and it's always a pleasure to work with @perez-paredes.bsky.social! This was a nice opportunity to publish in Spanish and is part of an important effort on the part of the editors to discuss and construct facets of Spanish linguistics in Spanish! Grateful to be a part of it.

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Interviews are a cornerstone in learner corpus research, but are they truly representative of spoken learner language? 📚 This paper "Rethinking interviews as representations of spoken language in learner corpora" by @perezparedes @jacob.gold elMMark in <Research in Corpus Linguistics>

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Really excited to have signed a book contract today and to be working with the wonderful @craigrevans.bsky.social on a project that never fails to put me in a good mood. 'Antiproverbial cake' (Ursula Le Guin)!

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Great keynote by @tonymcenery.bsky.social making the case for expertise in the face of automation: “the return to linguistic reality should be the ground truth of all analyses involving language” @24drdhum.bsky.social

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A lot has happened since that paper! And CLiC looks quite different these days 😄 Here my favourite feature - the KWICGrouper If you are a CLiC user, we'd love to hear your feedback on current functionalities! If you haven't used it yet, give it a try? clic.bham.ac.uk @stockwell.bsky.social

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Very happy to be giving this free online talk on Thursday.

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