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.

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From Ben Blatt’s “Nabokov’s Favourite Word is Mauve: The Literary Quirks and Oddities of our Most-Loved Authors” (2017; Simon & Schuster)!

I used to do a workshop on analysing social media data (including emoji) for the Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics. 🖥️📄

Then William Platt and I decided to write a paper based on the data.

So: what happened on University Twitter during lockdown? Here’s one case study 😷🌹

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Just received the final proofs of this book, based on @corpussocialsci.bsky.social research on health communication. It will be out *open access* later this year. @paulari.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social @tonymcenery.bsky.social

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After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/

Day 2: Colleagues are joining us online to talk about communication around health inequalities and lived experience.

There’s still time to register at the Events page and get the link to join us:

Day 1 of our @baal-health-sig.bsky.social event, supported by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.

Were in-person @lancasteruni.bsky.social and you can register at our events page for the online broadcast link and watch along

A reminder that we are hosting the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG event on the topic of Inequalities, inclusion and innovation

Day 1: Friday 21 March, Lancaster University (hybrid)
Day 2: Tuesday 25 March (online only)

Registration is open and FREE: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

We are delighted to confirm our #2025 Workshop series: Inequalities, inclusion and innovation. In person @lancslinguistics.bsky.social on 21/03/25 and online on 25/03/25. Plenaries @elenasemino.bsky.social & @fmfederici.bsky.social All welcome: register via website - baalhealthsci.wordpress.com

Two new Assistant Professorships in our department

Language and New Media:

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Intercultural Communication:

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New paper co-authored with @elenasemino.bsky.social
in Language and Health: A linguistic analysis of female and male opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain

Open Access and available online: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Call for papers: “Health and science communication: Inequalities, Inclusion & Innovation”, hosted by the BAAL Health and Science Communication SIG.

To be held at Lancaster University on 22nd March 2025 (in person) and 25th March (online).

Deadline: 11th December
baalhealthsci.wordpress.com/events/

Excellent presentation from
@lucyjones.bsky.social, talking to us about ethnographic fieldwork with young LGBTQ+ people.

Check out the related campaign: nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...

This talk was part of the Goldlings online guest lecture series: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

From 2023:
Language, Discourse and Anxiety
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Viral Language: Analysing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Public Discourse
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Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research
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