Out now: 'Discursive Perspectives on Assisted Dying', chapter with David Wright in Handbook of Language and Death (eds. D. Galasiński & J. Ziólkowska). Author accepted version available #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco.... @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
24.02.2026 14:36 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
octopus tentacles on a red background, writing: Influence, Manipulation and Seduction 3
#OctoConf3 news: we have a new poster aaaand 3 confirmed plenary speakers!
- Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social (Discourse and Persuasion, Uni Sussex)
- Massimiliano Demata (English Linguistics, University of Catania)
- Katarina Pettersson (Social Psychology, Uni Helsinki)
Out now: 'Dementia, Death and Discourse', chapter with @emma-putland.bsky.social in Handbook of Language and Death, ed. by @dgalasinski.bsky.social & Justyna Ziółkowska. See OA pre-print below, and make sure to look up the rest of the volume! @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
20.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Still haven’t read Constructing Brexit Britain? There’s a 40% sale on the eBook on Bloomsbury’s website which means you can get it for just over £15!!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...
Sorry to hear that, Tamsin. Take care.
20.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Would you like to apply for the Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships at Tampere University with me as your PI and join our masterclass to prepare your app? Get in touch with me (or another prospective supervisor from @pluraltampere.bsky.social) by 27.4.
www.tuni.fi/en/research/...
📢New article out!
🟦 @shayuze.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social study user's stance and multimodal irony.
🟦They analyse comments on X to the UK's NHS Covid-19 policy posts.
🟦They prove the mediating role of affordances & offer a replicable method.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Capitalism. Because preventing illness just isn't profitable anymore.
13.02.2026 09:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.
12.02.2026 09:11 — 👍 2396 🔁 534 💬 192 📌 30@pubdiscdementia.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social
12.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Out now: 'Critical Discourse Studies and Health Communication'. Chapter in Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies, ed. by B. Forchtner and F. Zappettini. Honoured to publish in this book alongside many whose work has inspired me. Chapter pre-print #openaccess here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...
12.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Interested in what different members of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH) are working on?
Today we're putting the spotlight on Professor May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore):
ic4ch.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/s...
Great to see this out & happy to have an article with @perez-paredes.bsky.social in it on public-oriented research communication. Huge thanks to @shelleystaples.bsky.social, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social & the reviewers for feedback throughout the process. Link to our paper here: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2...
10.02.2026 10:44 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A little late, but worth sharing - our paper 'Building the AVATAR Corpus' was published in December.
I feel genuinely lucky to have had the chance to contribute to this project, and to have collaborated with such an inspiring group of co-authors.
Excited to see how this resource is applied!
Applications of Corpus Linguistics by Gavin Brookes, Niall Curry and Robbie Love
With case studies from diverse contexts, this book shows and critically reflects on applications of corpus linguistics research and methods.
📚 https://cup.org/3NZeaTI
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social
09.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Out now! Special issue of @registerstudies.bsky.social, edited with @shelleystaples.bsky.social on Register and Professional Discourse. Papers address register in a range of contexts, inc. architecture, business, higher education, journalism, legal practice & virtual workspaces. Read more below!
09.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Out now: 'Multimodal irony in public responses to digitally mediated NHS COVID-19 messages' - article with @shayuze.bsky.social in Discourse, Context & Media. You can read it #openaccess through the link below. @sosslancaster.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
05.02.2026 11:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I am genuinely so happy to announce that my latest article, co-authored with my PhD supervisor, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, has now been published in Discourse, Context & Media 🎉🎉
The project was such a joy to work on! Check it out: 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The next octopus conference is coming to town 🐙
“Influence, Manipulation, Seduction” 3d edition at Tampere Uni, co-organised with @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @domini.bsky.social - this time it is face to face!
Send us your persuasive abstracts by July 1
🐦🐦
events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
Registration for this year's Corpora and Discourse conference, at Lancaster University, is now live!
02.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Very happy to see our chapter out in the Oxford Handbook of Expressivity (Eds. Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay)! @niallrcurry.bsky.social, Emily Sharp, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, @tonymcenery.bsky.social, and I discuss corpus approaches to analyzing expressivity.
30.01.2026 19:38 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Out now: 'What is good care, and who is it good for? A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care home websites'. Chapter led by @emma-putland.bsky.social with Kevin Harvey in the Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han.... Accepted version in original post below!
29.01.2026 12:43 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0The deadline for TaLC2026 has been extended to February 22nd. If you're working on language education, technology, & corpus linguistics, come along! This year focuses on AI & corpus linguistics and I'm excited to be among the plenary speakers! See below for details on location & abstract submission!
26.01.2026 09:29 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Out now: 'Expressivity and Corpus Linguistics', in The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity, led by @hankslizzy.bsky.social, with @niallrcurry.bsky.social, Emily Sharp & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
26.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Just a few days left to submit abstracts for IVACS 2026 in Malta. Very excited to be among the plenary speakers and looking forward to seeing everyone in sunny Malta ☀️. Details below on abstract submission ⤵️ and the final date for submission is January 23rd (this Friday)!
20.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
17th International Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC) conference, University of Extremadura, Jarandilla de la Vera, Cáceres, Spain, 15-18 July 2026. Submission deadline is 18th January 2026 #corpuslinguistics #language #languagelearning #languageteaching
ℹ️ ℹ️ eventos.unex.es/136933/detai...
Thank you! 😊
05.01.2026 23:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@alexiconartist.bsky.social @perez-paredes.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social (and sorry for anyone we couldn't find on BlueSky!).
05.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0