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BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG

We are looking for new committee members! If you would like to join the BAAL Corpus SIG as Meetings Secretary or as an Ordinary Member, please get in touch! You can learn more about the SIG at our website:

The Victorian Ghost Story The Victorian Ghost Story

Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...

Rethinking the Economy through recognising the Rights of Nature

The Rights of Nature movement isn’t just legal theory it reimagines economics, governance & finance to serve life, not extract from it. Can our current economic mindset, wedded to GDP growth, adapt to a model that values ecosystem health as much as profit? Read our blog here
@ecioxford.bsky.social

🗞️ New from CDH's @mmvty.bsky.social & @wouterhaverals.bsky.social: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans ‼️ Read their preprint out now: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831, and read the thread below for more insights.

@princeton.edu

Arts & Ideas Society & Culture Podcast · Every two weeks · Leading thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives – looking back at the news and making links between past and present. Broadcast as Free Thinking, Fri...

Why humanities are essential and not simply a ‘nice-to-have’:
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PALA 2026 - Uppsala University

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for next year’s PALA conference at Uppsala is now out: www.uu.se/en/departmen.... We look forward to receiving your abstract!

A stylized depiction of a human hand reaching towards a robotic hand against a bright blue background, reminiscent of Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam." The image uses vivid pink and green hues.

In a new article in the Journal of the British Academy, FBA Robin Mansell explores the tensions between AI industry developers of LLMs and creative industries rightsholders, as well as considering the broader implications for the future of our datafied world.

Find out more ⬇️

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The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI: Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI: Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor

The latest in our #HumanitiesForAI Q&A series: @nnedi.bsky.social joined us in April at @princeton.edu to discuss her new novel, Death of the Author, and the future of storytelling in the age of AI. Read some of her hopes, concerns, and insights on the impact of AI in writing and the humanities. ✨

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... For people interested in the links between AL and AI.

I challenged my colleagues yesterday to come up with a seven-word definition of Stylistics. This is as close as I could get:

Stylistics is the study of how language choice affects meaning.

Why “critical” use of AI in education might mean refusal UNESCO’s ‘Digital Learning Week’, which focused on AI and the future of education, was held earlier this month, and debates about the role of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the classro…

New on Language-on-the-Move: everyone talks about using AI in education "critically" - that should mean NOT using it, argues Ana Bruzon

www.languageonthemove.com/why-critical...

It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast!

We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow.

Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!

New book published today: "Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide", along with Furzeen Ahmed, Marcello Giovanelli, Caroline Godfrey, Chloe Harrison, Megan Mansworth, Stephen Pihlaja, and Ella Wydrzynska

www.routledge.com/Researching-...

Happy to share that the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang, Coxhead & Webb, 2017) is now on Lextutor for lexical profiling! 🎉 Check % of academic spoken words in texts here: www.lextutor.ca/vp/comp/. Huge thanks to Tom Cob! Please explore & share!

Calls: Text & Talk - "Special Issue: Communicative Practices and Genre Developments in Letter Writing" (Jrnl)

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025

Our Concordance feature now has a colorful upgrade to make patterns and structures easier to see. Highlights show up automatically when using filters, opening results from Word Sketch, or applying CQL labels. (ske.li/cql_label).
#corpuslinguistics #textanalysis

***RESEARCH PAPER OUT NOW***

“I agree with this”: A multi-modal register analysis of lexical bundles in the ICNALE by Trevor Sitler (Kansai University) and Martin Spivey (Akita University)

icr.or.kr/apjcr_2025_6...

#learnercorpus #corpuslinguistics #JapanEFL #ICNALE

📚 The new school year is starting in many places. If you’re a teacher, student, or parent, here are a few ways Our World in Data might be useful to you right now 🧵

Our work is used in classrooms around the world — from top universities to local schools.

Teaching with OWID How can you use Our World in Data in teaching?

Our teaching hub has answers to common questions + more teaching ideas and resources: ourworldindata.org/teaching

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new
free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

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Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools

"Kathleen B. Casey Explores the Connection Between Black Women’s Purses and the Civil Rights Movement"

lithub.com/not-just-a-f...

#africanamerican #ushistory #history

Final plenary from Angel Lin on the ecological turn in Applied Linguistics. #baal2025

A line chart showing that large fires in August mean 2025 has been a record year for wildfires in Spain. The data is measured as cumulative area burnt by wildfires in hectares, and the chart has a line for each year from 2012 to 2025. Annotations explain that by August 5th, Spain's wildfires this year were below average. Just two weeks later, 2025 had overtaken all previous years with consistent records. The data source is the Global Wildfire Information System (2025). The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.

Spain is having its largest wildfire year in well over a decade

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online Safeguarding children in schools broadly refers to the actions taken to protect children from abuse, prevent damage to health and development, and pro…

Corpus linguistics for safeguarding children online

🔓 Out now with @crkennedy.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Corpus linguistic approaches to tackling online crime edited by the brilliant @wrightdw.bsky.social

@livunienglish.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese.

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...