Lorenzo Zannini

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

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📝 📣New OA paper with @tonymcenery.bsky.social & @gavinbrookes.bsky.social, "A question of alignment – AI, GenAI and applied linguistics" You can find it in ARAL here: doi.org/10.1017/S026... & more details in the posts below ⬇️ @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social

📚 Ideologies of Communication in Japan is out now! My chapter explores normative practices of linguistic correction, with a focus on how they relate to moral judgments and negative emotions 🔗 tinyurl.com/3z4zuh8a
Many thanks to the editors for their fantastic work 🙏
@multi-ling-mat.bsky.social

Thanks to the anonymous reviewers and all the people at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social for the suggestions and help throughout the process

This research is the result of the constant support and guidance of my amazing supervisor @katherineeruss1.bsky.social and the outcome of my visiting research period at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social with the best host supervisor and co-author I could have wished for @niallrcurry.bsky.social.

In closing, we argue that critical discursive approaches to public-oriented research communication can help foster reflexive engagement with research and communicative practices when translating academic knowledge in the public domain.

Against this background, we discuss knowledge production as a power-laden and situated process influenced by contextual, socio-political conditions of production.

While patterns of representation partially recognise the co-productive nature of socio-environmental dynamics, they often reproduce a universalising narrative that does not acknowledge differential exposure to climate risks.

In the paper, we discuss the concept of climate adaptation in public-oriented research communication and investigate how epistemological frameworks shape representational patterns when translating academic knowledge in the public domain.

Climate adaptation in public-oriented research communication The notion of adaptation has become central to the development of responses to climate-related risks. However, what climate adaptation means in earnest appears highly variable. Given that academics...

📢 new 🔓 open access paper in Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social with Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social
You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1740...
Some key points below ⬇️

Preparations for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse International Conference at Lancaster University are under way! We will be sharing information on dates for your calendars, plenary speakers, and the upcoming call for papers very soon. Follow here for updates, and please share widely! #CADS2026