Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
Just received the final proofs of this book, based on @corpussocialsci.bsky.social research on health communication. It will be out *open access* later this year. @paulari.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
17.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Even more exciting: this year’s EAPC Early Career Award goes to another researcher in palliative care with a linguistics background. How encouraging to see linguistic approaches gaining ground in this vital field!
30.05.2025 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always so special to get lots of our staff, students and alumni together. A lovely evening after #EAPC2025
29.05.2025 20:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I should start my day with little lambs and ducks.
22.05.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Marvellous Will.
Congratulations 🥳
22.05.2025 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoy the rest of this remarkable day! 🍾🍾🍾🎉🎉🎉
15.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Again! Congratulations! This is all well deserved! Dr. Dance.
15.05.2025 17:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Better communication about vaccines could tackle scepticism
Vanderslott discusses several shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination that need to be tackled in preparation for future pandemics.1 My colleagues and I have identified an additional area of concern.2 We ...
Just out in the BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/389/... - a (supportive) response to Samantha Vanderslott's piece 'Confronting the shortcomings of covid-19 vaccination will help us in future pandemics', based on our earlier paper on a new form of vaccine scepticism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
02.05.2025 10:56 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
CASS Enters a New Era of Innovation – CASS
Leading the way in #CorpusLinguistics! CASS at @LancasterUni is tackling real-world challenges with big data and language analysis - now with new co-directors at the helm. Dive into our latest blog to see what’s next: cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-enters-...
#Linguistics #AI #SocialScience #CASS
26.03.2025 12:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We now have a Bluesky account for the Public Discourses of Dementia project! Check out what we're doing, and what we've been up to, below! 👇 #dementia #appliedlinguistics #discourse #corpuslinguistics
26.03.2025 16:21 — 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
I, alongside Dr Mike Ryder at Lancaster University, have just published an article in BMJ Medical Humanities titled 'Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective'! It is open access and you can read it here - mh.bmj.com/content/earl... 1/3
27.03.2025 08:27 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
‘It’s not a vaccine, it’s a shot’: uncovering a new trend in vaccine scepticism
The COVID pandemic triggered a new kind of vaccine scepticism shared by people who normally take up vaccines – here’s why that’s a problem.
I have written a piece for @theconversationuk.bsky.social about our study on a new form of vaccine scepticism: people questioning the status of some vaccines as vaccines, starting during the pandemic
theconversation.com/its-not-a-va... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @corpussocialsci.bsky.social
20.03.2025 10:21 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Something weird about Web of Science…
They have automatically added someone else’s research outputs to my profile.
I cannot even find a way to delete that person’s name and organisations on my profile.
It’s funny to see myself in the fields of Engineering and Linguistics at the same time…
14.03.2025 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An image displaying the ranking of Lancaster's Linguistics department as 3rd in the world by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025.
We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025!
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12.03.2025 11:12 — 👍 34 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
Corpus Linguistics and Law: Reflections of a Legal Scholar and recent Master’s Graduate from Lancaster University – CASS
How can corpus linguistics enhance legal research? In our latest post, Adrian Hemler, a recent Lancaster University Master’s graduate, shares insights on the intersection of law and linguistics.
Read more: cass.lancs.ac.uk/corpus-lingu...
12.03.2025 19:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I made a #cognitivelinguistics starter park - please share and let me know who I missed! #linguistics #starterpack go.bsky.app/EtMaSX5
16.11.2024 22:53 — 👍 109 🔁 41 💬 21 📌 3
Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool
Hello #wmatrix version 7, I've just got access to a new server to install the next release of the software (ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/). More news coming soon!
12.12.2024 16:09 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Hello, everyone on this site!
18.11.2024 15:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lecturer at Universidad de Extremadura.
Doctor in English Linguistics.
Applied Cognitive Linguistics and L2 instruction ✨
Metaphor researcher with the L2earn team.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6065-8304
Asst. Research Professor @ University of Cambridge | Online Hate Speech, LLMs, CDA & Multimodal Analysis | Former Marie Curie Fellow.
Open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing research on language, language use, language acquisition, language teaching, and language assessment. https://tesolal.columbia.edu
Psycholinguist, professor of L2 education, former EuroSLA president.
Set up in 2003, the BAAL Corpus Lingusitics Special Interest Group provides linguists a space to discuss the use of corpora and corpus methodologies in applied linguistics research.
https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/
(Account managed by @linguistlawyer.com)
Applied cognitive linguist at Universidad de Extremadura (Spain). I love learning and teaching.
Insight and Impact Officer at CV Life. PhD linguistics at Uni of Birmingham. Metaphor enthusiast. Neurodivergent.
Cognitive Science of Metaphor and Concepts.
Psychology Professor.
Welcome to RaAM!
The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor is the biggest international community of metaphor researchers.
Our next event will be the 9th Specialized Seminar, hosted in Pavia (Italy) in 2026 🇮🇹
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Bluesky account for the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, hosted by Lancaster University.
historical usage-based linguist at the English Department, UZH
project WWW-SArDEEn starting soon: https://evazehentner.wordpress.com/www-sardeen/
Research Fellow at Kingston University📍Palliative care and learning disability 🌻 UCL PhD in prognostication in hospice MDTs 🏛 Conversation Analysis 💬 she/her
she/her Phd student in Multimodal discourse, University of Milan || Currently focusing on non-binary gender identity online performance and community-building
Visiting student at University of Lancaster and University of Edinburgh
linguist
a less cruel world is possible
neurosomething (autistic)
all posts reflect private opinions
Text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics, language and law
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Lancaster University, UK
Specialising in language testing and assessment
Lecturer in English Linguistics at UCL. Researcher of reproductive health communication @uclenglishusage.bsky.social.
Englicious is an entirely free online library of original English language teaching resources!
Posts by Bas Aarts @englishgrammar.bsky.social
and Luke Pearce @lpearcelearning.bsky.social
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
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PhD student in Linguistics at LancasterUni|discourse, media & gender