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Gavin Brookes
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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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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 25d
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

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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 7d
Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · 14d
Exciting news! You can now view our plenary speakers' abstracts: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/ple.... You have one week remaining to submit your abstracts!
Plenary Speakers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 17d
Had a nice time last week at the @britishacademy.bsky.social, discussing Critical AI Literacies as part of this year's Global China Dialogue! A nice opportunity to address the emerging role of and associated challenges with AI in education #GenAIintheDisciplines @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @ukri.org
Picture of the book of abstracts for the Global China Dialogue 2025 Title Slide for presentation on Developing Critical AI Literacies in Language Education

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Emma Putland @emma-putland.bsky.social · 18d
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.

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piotr-j.bsky.social @piotr-j.bsky.social · 22d
Autism in Interaction is officially out
It introduces the concept of "neurolect" into linguistics and explores why autistic communication is so often misinterpreted as "rude" by neurotypical listeners.

www.routledge.com/Autism-in-In...
Autism in Interaction: (Un)masking and Impoliteness
This book seeks to build further links between (im)politeness research and autism by countering prevailing notions in pragmatics around autism and media portrayals of autistic characters through the l...
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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 22d
Check out Viola's book on surveillance discourses - it is the latest addition to the Corpus and Discourse series, and I highly recommend it!
violawiegand.bsky.social Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social · 22d
Just submitted the final proofs for this book 😱

It's available to pre-order for March delivery if anyone is interested or wants to order it for a library ☺️

(Honestly had mixed feelings about not wanting to "let it go" but am also so ready to be done with it 🫣)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...
Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is define…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social · 22d
Just submitted the final proofs for this book 😱

It's available to pre-order for March delivery if anyone is interested or wants to order it for a library ☺️

(Honestly had mixed feelings about not wanting to "let it go" but am also so ready to be done with it 🫣)
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...
Exploring Meaning in Surveillance Discourses through Corpora
Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is define…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Dr Tamsin Parnell @tamsinparnell.bsky.social · 23d
‘Parnell’s Constructing Brexit Britain
emerges as a pioneering scholarly endeavor that
intricately examines the discursive formations
shaping British national identity amid the
tumultuous Brexit process.’

New review of my book in Political Studies Review!

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Eugeニア Diegoli @diegolieugenia.bsky.social · 24d
📚"The affective meanings of bowing in a web corpus of Japanese", out now OA in the Journal of Pragmatics! Access it here doi.org/10.1016/j.pr..., and more details below 👇

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 25d
@lancslinguistics.bsky.social

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · 25d
New chapter with the 'Questioning Vaccination Discourse' team: 'Anti-vaccination discourse in Victorian England: Key Semantic Domains and Parallels with Present-Day Anti-Vaccination Arguments'. Part of a fascinating volume on historical medical discourse.
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Anti-Vaccination Discourse in Victorian England | 11 | Key Semantic Do
This chapter is concerned with anti-vaccination discourse in England between the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth
www.taylorfrancis.com

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · Nov 19
New openaccess paper in Digital Health with Anna Cermakova et al.: "In my experience …": The use of the word "experience" in peer online forums for mental health.

The study is part of the NIHR-funded project 'Improving Peer Online Forums', led by Fiona Lobban: www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-m...
‘In my experience …’: The use of the word experience in peer online forums for mental health - Anna Lindroos Cermakova, Elena Semino, Karin Tusting, Neil Caton, Matthew Coole, Zoe Glossop, Steven Jone...
Objective Peer support online forums potentially offer accessible and inexpensive access to information and support through shared lived experience, including i...
journals.sagepub.com

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Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Nov 14
Call for Papers 💥DEADLINE EXTENSION!💥 Our Call for Papers will now close on 19th December 2025! We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you all next June! Submit your abstract here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk

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Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social · Nov 13
It feels really, really good to finally hold the hard copy of this in my hands! Years of work in one shiny new book 😊 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/language-...
Hardback book with a green cover and pink, stencilled writing, reading LANGUAGE AND LGBTQ+ YOUTH: ANALYSING MARGINALISED IDENTITIES THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL LENS by Lucy Jones. The cover picture is an abstract image with shapes in various rainbow-like colours.

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Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social · Nov 12
If you're interested in AI and Linguistics, there's still time to register for @niallrcurry.bsky.social's MCRL seminar tomorrow (online and F2F) at 3pm where he will be talking about his @ukri.org metascience Fellowship on GenAI in the disciplines! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/genai-in-t...
GenAI in the Disciplines
Join us for a hybrid seminar with Dr Nial Curry about Generative AI in the Social Sciences
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · Nov 7
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...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Oct 17
🚨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 🩺📊
Protecting the Public's Health during Novel Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Protecting the Public's Health during Novel Infectious Disease Outbreaks
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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Oct 17
"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...
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...
doi.org

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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · Oct 15
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/...
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CADAAD Network @cadaad.bsky.social · Oct 14
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

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Oct 13
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

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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Oct 10
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...
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...
doi.org

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · Oct 9
We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science.

The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.

Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...
International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science
New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.
www.ukri.org

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · Oct 8
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 ⬇️
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 ...
doi.org

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Language & Power Podcast @languagepowerpodcast.org · Oct 1
Wonderful to speak with @matteofuoli.bsky.social on the latest episode: Changing Climate; Changing Discourse languagepowerpodcast.org/series1/blog-post-title-one-jawmt-pcckw-eh84g-ne93z-7efd9-4m5xl-wh4nd-s38gs-cpc35-z3r6k-b2kfk-pjj6a-d2pzy-ksrpb-zhd5b-p4ww7-enf62-9yw6l-6k8sx-nmpwh-rppkr
S5 Episode 5: Changing climate, changing discourse- panel discussion — Language/Power Podcast
In this special episode, recorded at the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress held in Glasgow this summer, we have an expert panel discussion on 'Changing Climate, Changing Discourse...
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Luke C Collins @lukeccollins.bsky.social · Sep 30
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...
Copies of the book, Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare

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JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social · Sep 28
New article by @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @elenasemino.bsky.social exploring patterns
in reports of disability experience jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10....

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 25
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...

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Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social · Sep 25
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...
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.
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