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@gavinbrookes.bsky.social

Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University|UKRI Future Leader Fellow|Fulbright @ NAU|Associate Editor of IJCL|Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS|FRSA

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Sampling through the lens of QRPs From an ethical standpoint, it is important that we ensure that our sampling procedures allow us to make generalizations about the populations we wish…

New article out:

Sampling through the lens of QRPs (Sterling, Kytö, Plonsky, Yaw, & Larsson, 2025).

Available open access for 50 days:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

07.11.2025 20:58 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A reminder that the deadline for abstracts is coming up, on 16 November!

07.11.2025 14:01 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven approach | John Benjamins Abstract Subgenres of the novel have traditionally been defined first and foremost in terms of their content. Yet, in addition to revisiting themes, settings, plot patterns and character constellation...

"I feel a wave of affection.."
"il sera fou de joie…"

OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.

#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

17.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Protecting the Public's Health during Novel Infectious Disease Outbreaks Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Protecting the Public's Health during Novel Infectious Disease Outbreaks

🚨New Cambridge Element🚨

"Protecting the Public's Health during Novel Infectious Disease Outbreaks" by Louise Cummings is out now & #OpenAccess

https://cup.org/3J3aAWI

#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 #PublicHealth 🩺📊

17.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Have you published a book recently? or a special issue? Are you working on a call for papers or abstracts? Are you organising a workshop?

If you'd like to include any of the above on the next CADAAD mailshot, please write to sbennett@amu.edu.pl

14.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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My new Open Access article in Discourse and Society with Rickey Lu: Holistic, nurturing and sustainable: Discursive shift in corporate social responsibility reporting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

15.10.2025 08:04 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I'm honoured to have been appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) new assessor college. Looking forward to continuing to contribute to the council's important work in this new role! @ukri.org @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

13.10.2025 09:39 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

10.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 0
A corpus-based study into new combining forms in American English | John Benjamins Abstract This study examines 10 new combining forms (CFs) in American English from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English, the Corpus...

spooktacular, momfluencer, pupperazi..

How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?

Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability

#WordFormation

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

10.10.2025 09:44 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...

New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️

08.10.2025 10:50 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

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!

01.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

The timeline for the projects discussed in this book roughly maps onto my time with @corpussocialsci.bsky.social and will stand proudly on my bookshelf.

Was fun to write, too.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

30.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

25.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 35    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare This book has been fun and also somewhat liberating to write. To explain this we have to tell the story of how the book came about.

Our book 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' is out open access! We wrote it to share what we learnt in many years of research in @corpussocialsci.bsky.social, on topics such as communication about anxiety, dementia, cancer, obesity and vaccines. cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/appl...

25.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 57    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 1
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Honoured to give a keynote at the Data, Gender and Society summer school at @dhssfau.bsky.social this morning. Thanks so much for the invitation, and great audience engagement! @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

24.09.2025 09:18 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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“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

24.09.2025 08:26 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Today’s keynote is Gavin Brookes on "Corpus linguistics for gender and language research".

One striking example: James Bond’s masculinity is, among other things, constructed through silence (most frequent trigram in the Fleming corpus is "bond said nothing").

@gavinbrookes.bsky.social
#DHSS2025

24.09.2025 07:56 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

Details on conference call for papers, available at the link.

One for the calendars 📅 #IVACS2026 will take place in Malta, July 1-3 2026! I'm honoured to be among the plenary speakers. More details on the conference and call for papers here: www.um.edu.mt/events/ivacs...

22.09.2025 11:13 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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We had two fantastic sessions this morning!

– Prof. Michaela Mahlberg gave us a great introduction to digital humanities @michamahlberg.bsky.social
– Prof. Anna Foka delivered an inspiring first keynote on AI & heritage

Fantastic vibes all around! ✨

#DHSS2025 #DigitalHumanities

22.09.2025 12:13 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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We can’t wait to welcome our great keynote speakers at next week’s Summer School!
Find out more details about their sessions on our website.

@annafoka.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @mkschumacher.bsky.social
#DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities

18.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins Abstract A wealth of linguistic data has been annotated by corpus linguists, and this extant annotated data can be used to automatically replicate and apply the linguist’s annotation scheme by means o...

OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data.

In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.

#BERT

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

22.09.2025 09:12 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations!

17.09.2025 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Evaluating a transparent and interpretable approach to stance detection using linguistic markers in social media data | John Benjamins Abstract Our study focuses on replicability, which entails researchers’ ability to achieve similar results to a prior study using identical methods but a different yet comparable dataset. We address t...

OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data.

Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.

doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

12.09.2025 14:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Brilliant and timely reflection by @niallrcurry.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social on epistemology, knowledge-making, values, macroethics ... and GenAI "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" #corpuslinguistics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

12.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?

@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics

What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

10.09.2025 09:06 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Digital Humanities Summer School 2025: Data, gender and society If you are attending the FAU Innovation Days (view details), you have the opportunity to register for the keynote talks. Mo 22 – Fri 26 September 2025 The DHSS2025 summer school offers expert-led…

Great to the schedule for the #DHSS2025 summer school out! An amazing programme is waiting for our participants ☺️
#DataGenderSociety #DH #DigitalHumanities

go.fau.de/1cadb

10.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026

The call for papers for the 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social Conference is now out!

wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...

Submission deadline is 16 November.

Really looking forward to it!

10.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's a lovely part of the country - sorry to have missed you!

04.09.2025 09:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I was honoured today to give a keynote speech on working with sociodemographic metadata for online language corpora, at the 12th CMC Conference at the University of Bayreuth 🇩🇪 Grateful to the audience for their engagement and great questions! @unibayreuth.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

04.09.2025 09:20 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇
tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd

I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏

02.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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