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Emma Putland
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Applied Linguist at Lancaster University | Senior Research Associate on the Public Discourses of Dementia project.
Especially interested in health and environmental discourses, multimodality, critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, metaphor, etc.
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corporadiscourse.bsky.social
Registration for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse Conference is now... open! Please follow the link below to register, and do so by 5th April to get the early bird price! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/reg... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social
Registration – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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February 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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corpussocialsci.bsky.social
In 2026, our CASS Summer Schools offer two free-to-attend courses in corpus linguistics, focused on Language, Discourse and Society, and Language Teaching, Testing and Assessment.
Applications are now open!
wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
#LancsSS26
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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gavinbrookes.bsky.social
Out 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!
January 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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pubdiscdementia.bsky.social
Our team, @gavinbrookes.bsky.social and @emma-putland.bsky.social, have a new chapter with Kevin Harvey!

'What is good care, and who is it good for? A
Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of UK care
home websites'

Interested? You can read the author copy here wp.lancs.ac.uk/public-disco...
wp.lancs.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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corpussocialsci.bsky.social
Applications for the free-to-attend 2026 CASS Summer Schools are now open!

Intensive, expert-led training in corpus linguistics. No course fees (travel and accommodation are self-funded) #LancsSS26

Apply via the CASS website: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...
January 28, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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baal-health-sig.bsky.social
📣 Reminder!

👇 Just 3 weeks to go until the deadline for our 2026 online webinar.

We look forward to seeing your submissions!
baal-health-sig.bsky.social BAAL Health & Science SIG @baal-health-sig.bsky.social · Jan 9
Call for Papers for our 2026 webinar: ‘Key Health and Science Communication Challenges in the 2020s’

We’re delighted to share the cfp for our upcoming event. If you’re considering submitting, we’d love to hear from you.

The deadline for submission is 5pm, February 9th 2026.

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2026 webinar series: Key Health and Science Communication Challenges and Opportunities in the 2020s
This year, we’re looking to showcase some of the excellent work being done on health and science communication through an online seminar series that aims to grapple with some of the key challenges …
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January 19, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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baal-health-sig.bsky.social
👇Exciting opportunity for a postdoc position at Queen Mary, University of London.

This project is situated at the intersection of digital linguistics, visual studies, and critical autism studies.
jessaiston.bsky.social Jess Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 26d
We're hiring! Come join Nelya & I on the Autism in Affinity Spaces project - we're looking for a postdoc with expertise in working with multimodal datasets. Autistic researchers are highly encouraged to apply.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC919/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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baal-health-sig.bsky.social
Call for Papers for our 2026 webinar: ‘Key Health and Science Communication Challenges in the 2020s’

We’re delighted to share the cfp for our upcoming event. If you’re considering submitting, we’d love to hear from you.

The deadline for submission is 5pm, February 9th 2026.

wp.me/pcqSKn-dv
2026 webinar series: Key Health and Science Communication Challenges and Opportunities in the 2020s
This year, we’re looking to showcase some of the excellent work being done on health and science communication through an online seminar series that aims to grapple with some of the key challenges …
wp.me
January 9, 2026 at 6:27 AM
emma-putland.bsky.social
I'm delighted to share that my book is out and available to read online for free! Thank you to the many people who either participated in my research or supported me to do it 😊

Book page: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/navigatin...

Free online access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Image shows a banner advertising the book, titled Navigating Dementia and Society: Exploring How People Affected by Dementia Negotiate and Reshape Popular Discourses. It is open access as an e-book. Review: ‘This brilliant, insightful book showcases people with dementia as creators of their own identities. By re-interpreting tired tropes and dehumanising discourses, this work creates space for hope. If we want a better future for dementia care, these are the voices we need to listen to.’ - Cheyann Heap, University of York, UK Review: ‘Navigating Dementia and Society is a fresh exploration of the experience of dementia that problematises prevailing dichotomous discourses of “tragedy” or “living well”. In her creative multimodal investigation, Emma Putland illuminates the complexity with which individuals affected by dementia engage with media stereotypes. Kudos for this innovative and hopeful study!’ - Heidi E. Hamilton, Georgetown University, USA Review: ‘This book offers a unique perspective on the way that dementia is described and understood and makes visible the power of language and images in influencing discourse. The author unpacks dementia discourse drawing on the lived experiences of people with dementia – and those closely connected – and challenges us to engage with a much more nuanced set of understandings. She manages to explore the territory in an engaging, thoughtful, intelligent and, at times, amusing way.’ – Alisoun Milne, University of Kent, UK
December 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
emma-putland.bsky.social
Out now: 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia', with Chris Chikodzore-Paterson and @gavinbrookes.bsky.social:

📑Journal article: utppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10....

📝Author copy (open access): eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...
Image shows the front page of our new article, entitled: “We No Longer Recognized Her as a Human Being”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of AI-Generated Character Descriptions of Men and Women With Dementia. ABSTRACT: Motivated by the gender inequalities observed in relation both to dementia and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), this article takes a critical discourse analysis approach to explore how gender and dementia intersect in 52 AI-generated character descriptions of men and women with dementia. Using “woman/man”as entry points through which to explore discursive constructions masculinities and femininities in the data, we find gendered distinctions in how characters’ bodies are evaluated, social roles attributed, and violence presented. We also find that a deficit approach to dementia dominates, emphasizing suffering, loss, and hopelessness. Characters with dementia are stereotyped as older and frail, either near death or already dead in body and/or mind. Overall, the AI-generated texts recycle (and potentially amplify) pervasive discourses regarding both dementia and gender. Our findings therefore reinforce the need for further critical engagement with GenAI, from design to use, to interrogate and challenge its capacity to perpetuate inequalities.
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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gavinbrookes.bsky.social
Out now: 'Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives', edited with @niallrcurry.bsky.social @emma-putland.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. Features 11 chapters using corpora to explore medical discourse over four centuries! www.routledge.com/Historical-M...
Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives
This collection showcases original research highlighting innovations in the application of corpus linguistic methods to the study of English historical medical discourse. The volume builds on recent w...
www.routledge.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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baal-health-sig.bsky.social
@baal-health-sig.bsky.social are now looking for a SIG Secretary. This post offers a great opportunity to get involved with the linguistics health and science communication community, BAAL more broadly and to help steer the direction of the SIG. For info, please go to baalhealthsci.wordpress.com
Health and Science Communication SIG
The Health and Science Communication BAAL Special Interest Group
baalhealthsci.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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elenasemino.bsky.social
Thank you to all contributors to this @corpussocialsci.bsky.social event: two days of thought-provoking presentations on different issues in health communication, using different methodologies and with data from Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. See you all at the next @ic4ch.bsky.social event!
ic4ch.bsky.social International Consortium for Communication in Health Care @ic4ch.bsky.social · Jun 4
Join us for our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK

Early bird registration is open until June 15th registration.lancaster.ac.uk/Registration...

More info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
Image shows the entrance of Lancaster Castle in spring. Image shows day 1 of the programme, which can be read in full as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025 09.30 - 10.15 Registration 10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address 10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of Pandemics 14.30 - 15.00 Break 15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations 16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion Image shows day 2 of the programme, which can be read in full as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025 09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings 11.00 – 11.30 Break 11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life 15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion 16.00 – 16.20 Event Close
September 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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gavinlamb.org
"Since 1800, there’s been a sharp decline in nature-related words in English language books. It closely matches a simulation of nature–human interactions." A new piece in @grist.org by Kate Yoder, with some #ecolinguistics input from @repoole.bsky.social grist.org/language/nat...
The words we use to talk about nature are disappearing. Here’s why that matters.
We’ll need to do more than ‘touch grass’ to revive them.
grist.org
September 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
emma-putland.bsky.social
As we enter day 2 of #baal2025, I'm reflecting on all of the thoughtful talks, plenaries and conversations from yesterday. Some of my personal highlights include:
Image shows Glasgow Main building. Image shows a rainbow at the end of a street in Glasgow. Image shows a marble staircase in Glasgow City Chambers. Image shows a grand hallway in Glasgow City Chambers.
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
emma-putland.bsky.social
Thank you so much to @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social for your summary and response to my talk at #baal2025 - there are some impressive speed typing skills on display there and it's really interesting to read your thoughts and experiment with a prompt that aims to avoid dementia stereotypes!
September 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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lucyjones.bsky.social
Fantastic and fascinating talk on the reductive, limited representations of dementia in generative AI from @uonenglish.bsky.social alumnus @emma-putland.bsky.social #BAAL2025
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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corporadiscourse.bsky.social
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
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September 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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tonymcenery.bsky.social
Check it out - the corpus MOOC is back (15th September) on a new platform (edX) exploring new topics, including AI. One thing has not changed - it is still free to access 😁 Find out more here: www.edx.org/learn/social...
lancasteruniversity: Corpus linguistics and new technologies: data, language and society | edX
In an era of AI and big data, understanding language through data is essential. This hands-on course from Lancaster University—a global leader in corpus linguistics—teaches you to build, query, and an...
www.edx.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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corporadiscourse.bsky.social
Diaries at the ready... the next Corpora & Discourse International Conference will take place from 23-25 June 2026, at Lancaster University. We are also very excited to launch our website, with plenary speaker info, key dates, and much more besides: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/. Please share widely!
Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026 – 23-25 June 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ic4ch.bsky.social
It's less than two months until our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK (in person) or Microsoft Teams (free online)

For more info and to register, see: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
Photo shows Lancaster Castle in spring. Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025 09.30 - 10.15 Registration 10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address 10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health Shared decision making, health literacy and management of heart failure: an analysis of patients’ interactions through their hospital journey. Susy Macqueen, Diana Slade and Suzanne Raine (Australian National University) Enhancing Patient Engagement in Oncology-Specific Genetic Counselling: A Conversation Analytic Approach K.K. Luke (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Communicating dementia: A reflection on AI-generated images and texts Emma Putland and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of Pandemics Elizabeth A. Rider (Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA) The mental health of university graduates in a post-COVID world: A mixed methods sociolinguistic approach Olga Zayts-Spence, Paul W.C. Wong, David Matthew Edmonds (University of Hong Kong) Challenges and Opportunities in Participatory Surveillance for Dengue Prevention: A Sri Lankan Case Study Prasad Wimalaratne (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) and May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 14.30 - 15.00 Break 15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations Post-pandemic challenges in communication about vaccines Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) Enhancing the value and wider benefit of research into Coronavirus Discourses: A Pan-London Immunisation Campaign Svenja Adolphs, Emma McClaughlin and Sara Vilar-Lluch (University of Nottingham and Cardiff University, UK) The problem with ‘side effects’ Zsófia Demjén (University College London, UK) 16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025 09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings Intercultural moments in emergency calls: Issues of access, accommodation, and attitude Jennifer Watermeyer and Rhona Nattrass (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) (In)equality, (in)visibilised diversity and exclusion: the ideological framing of language in NHS interpreting and translation guidelines. Emma Brooks (University College London, UK) Medical consultations with older adult patients in a multicultural setting: Dynamics of doctor-patient communication and the impact of companions May O. Lwin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 11.00 – 11.30 Break 11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings “It just made me feel very broken”: Self-reported experiences of medical misogyny in UK pregnancy loss consultations Beth Malory (University College London, UK) How REACHE equips asylum seeker and refugee doctors for safe and effective practice in the NHS Hayley Poulson (Refugee and Asylum Seekers Centre for Healthcare Professionals Education (REACHE Northwest), Salford Royal Hospital, UK) 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life The EMPATHY Protocol: Modern Support in Challenging Moments of Patient Care Aldona Katarzyna Jankowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Poland) The taboo of communication about assisted dying Nancy Preston (Lancaster University, UK) How to Talk about Dying? Lessons Learned from a Swiss Framework for Teaching Compassionate Communication about the End of Life Sibylle Felber (University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Switzerland) 15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion 16.00 – 16.20 Event Close
July 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Emma Putland
corporadiscourse.bsky.social
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
July 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
emma-putland.bsky.social
Really enjoying being part of the CASS Lancaster Summer Schools this week! It's great getting to meet so many fantastic people during a week dedicated to corpus linguistics! 😊✨️ #LancsSS25
corpussocialsci.bsky.social CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social · Jun 17
🖥️In our second practical session of the week, @emma-putland.bsky.social demonstrates two methods of corpus building on #Lancsbox X: a manual method and an automatic method. #LancsSS25
June 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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ic4ch.bsky.social
Join us for our 5th Symposium of the International Consortium for Communication in Health Care!

📆When: 11-12 September 2025
📍At: Lancaster University, UK

Early bird registration is open until June 15th registration.lancaster.ac.uk/Registration...

More info: ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/
Image shows the entrance of Lancaster Castle in spring. Image shows day 1 of the programme, which can be read in full as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Day 1: Thursday 11th of September 2025 09.30 - 10.15 Registration 10.15 - 10.30 Symposium Opening Address 10.30 - 12.00 Panel 1: Chronic and long-term health 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Panel 2: Infectious diseases and pandemics How will we work together? Communication and Caring in the Time of Pandemics 14.30 - 15.00 Break 15.00 – 16.30 Panel 3: Vaccinations 16.30 – 17.00 Roundtable discussion Image shows day 2 of the programme, which can be read in full as a PDF at https://ic4ch.wordpress.com/activities/ Day 2: Friday 12th of September 2025 09.30 – 11.00 Panel 4: Interactions in healthcare settings 11.00 – 11.30 Break 11.30 – 12.30 Panel 4 (Continued): Interactions in healthcare settings 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.00 Panel 5: Interactions in healthcare settings and end of life 15.30 – 16.00 Roundtable discussion 16.00 – 16.20 Event Close
June 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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gavinbrookes.bsky.social
Enjoyed giving a plenary talk at the CIRLAM conference today, and sharing work on generative AI, discourse and ideology with @emma-putland.bsky.social & Chris Chikodzore-Paterson. Great questions and discussion afterwards, too! @pubdiscdementia.bsky.social @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM