Yuze Sha
banner
shayuze.bsky.social
Yuze Sha
@shayuze.bsky.social
Research Fellow @EdinburghUni | Corpus linguistics, public health communication, social media discourse, multimodality
Pinned
Had a great time running the multimodal social media workshop at #CL2025 this morning — thanks to everyone who came along and contributed to the discussions! 🥰
Reposted by Yuze Sha
Now @tonymcenery.bsky.social discussing #CorpusLinguistics and #epistemology. Questions about paradigms, reality and science as a process.

A two-day workshop at Shisu in Shanghai starting today!

@corpussocialsci.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
“Forensic linguistics is an attempt to improve the delivery of justice through the analysis of language”

In this episode of The We Society @timgrant123.bsky.social @aifl.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can help solve crimes & lead to justice for all: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/podcast/grant
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
New Date Announced: We’re delighted to announce that Teun A. van Dijk (Centre of Discourse Studies, Barcelona) will now be joining us on Tuesday 11th November, 1–2pm (UK time) for his talk: Title: Discourse and Ideologies of the Radical Right
Location: MS Teams

Online link: lnkd.in/eAXSgT6r
November 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
New issue of Annual Review of Applied Linguistics out now - its theme is Artificial Intelligence in Applied Linguistics. Well worth a look, plenty of open access content (full disclosure - I have a paper in it 😀): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest volume | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge Core
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics
www.cambridge.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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.
journals.sagepub.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
📣 2 yrs postdoc w/in project Gender Struggles in the New Conjuncture - investigates a selection of anti-gender networks & feminist LGBTQI+ networks in 5 European regions. Experience w/h ethnography/ digital network analysis & deep knowledge of language & sociopolitical contexts in Southern Europe.
Postdoctoral researcher in Gender Studies
The Department of Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary unit within a larger division together with Sociology and Social Anthropology, situated at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University. W
lu.varbi.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
It was such a pleasure to take part in the legendary Language and Power podcast!

We had a very interesting chat about climate change discourses on the back of a lively panel at the last SFL Congress in Glasgow.

Thanks @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social and Tom Bartlett for hosting us!
October 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
Some exciting news ⤵️ to share: I have been awarded a UKRI Metascience AI Fellowship! This will enable me to spend the next few years working with research councils & policymakers to develop disciplinary guidelines & policy on responsible AI use in Social Science research. @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
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
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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.
cambridgeblog.org
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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
September 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
Beginning Day#3 with a keynote by the amazing @gavinbrookes.bsky.social
#DHSS2025
@dhssfau.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
“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
September 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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
September 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
I am so pleased to announce that I have been awarded a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an... to undertake the project 'A Multi-Dimensional Understanding of the Digital Far Right'.
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
www.ukri.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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

@livunienglish.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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
September 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
🎙️ Elena Semino, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University joins host Dr. Joe Bianco to discuss the subtle and surprising ways that language 🗣️ and humor 😂 shape health experiences 💙.
August 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
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
Reposted by Yuze Sha
📣🎉 Genuinely so happy to share my new article in The Journal of Pragmatics 🎉

My paper is titled "Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames" and can be accessed here (Open Access!) 👇👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social identity and implicature: Exploring the pragmatics of transgender coming out narratives in videogames
Despite being one of the most popular forms of media, videogames are an under-researched text type within linguistics. This paper examines the languag…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
New chapter out now on feminist protest and political change with @mchalu.bsky.social, in this important collection on language and gender in Eastern Europe, edited by @ksenijabogetic.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Yuze Sha
📣 Keynote Speaker Announcement #DHSS25

We’re pleased to announce our third keynote speaker: @gavinbrookes.bsky.social

🎤 Title: Corpus linguistics for gender and language research: Key concepts and critical reflections

🗓️ 22–26 September 2025
🔗 www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/summer-school

#dhss25
July 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM