Gavin Brookes

@gavinbrookes.bsky.social

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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 · 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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Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 24d

🚨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 · 24d

"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 · 27d

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/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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CADAAD Network @cadaad.bsky.social · 27d

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

Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 28d

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

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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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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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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 24

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

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · Sep 24

“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

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · Sep 24

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

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · Sep 22

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...

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

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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Sep 22

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...

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...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · Sep 18

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

Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 17

Congratulations!

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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

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...

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

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Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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…

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IJCL @ijcl.bsky.social · Sep 10

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...

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Matteo Fuoli @matteofuoli.bsky.social · Sep 10

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!

Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026

wp.lancs.ac.uk

Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Eugeニア Diegoli @diegolieugenia.bsky.social · Sep 2

📚 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 🙏

Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Call for Papers for Corpora & Discourse 2026 has now launched! Please send us your abstracts and share the call widely!

Corpora & Discourse Conference 2026 @corporadiscourse.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 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

wp.lancs.ac.uk

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