Rakan Alibri

Happy to see this chapter out! Congrats to @dgalasinski.bsky.social & J. Ziółkowska on this handbook. My chapter, ‘Death in the News: …’ examines how newspapers represent deaths from different risks to life. Delighted to be part of this volume and looking forward to reading the other chapters.

Registration for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse Conference is now... open! Please follow the link below to register, and do so by 5th April to get the early bird price! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/reg... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social

Delighted to be heading to Lancaster in June for #CADS2026, where I’ll be presenting my work on Tech CEO discourse on YouTube over a decade.

Really looking forward to being back and to meeting friends and colleagues.

Thank you, Paul! 🙏🏻

Thank you Anna 🙏🏻

Constructions of Risks to Life in News Media This book investigates the construction of risks through discourse to provide new insights into the relationship between risk discourse and society. It explores…

I’m also very grateful for the opportunity given by my wonderful editors, Gavin Brookes and Michaela Mahlberg. Their guidance and the smooth process made this a genuinely positive experience.

If you’re interested, it’s now available to pre-order.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

This is my first book, and I’m feeling genuinely happy and grateful.

I owe a great deal to many, especially @paulari.bsky.social, @tonymcenery.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social whose guidance and encouragement shaped this work in important ways.

Huge congratulations, Lily… and welcome, Dr Zhou!

Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics

What happens when you use AI to tag 8546 images in a 1.5m word corpus of UK news about Islam? How accurate is the tagger? What's the relationship between images and words? My new Cambridge Element with @hannaschmueck.bsky.social and Yufang Qian is now free to access www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Congratulations on the new publication, Paul. I’m really looking forward to reading it. I really enjoyed the time we spent together during the conference. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to say a proper goodbye at the end — but it was great catching.

Happy to have this in print! Congrats to T. Parnell, T. Van Hout & D. Del Fante for bringing this volume together. My chapter explores how media use discursive strategies to construct risks to life. First Bluesky post—hope I’m doing this right!