Mathew Gillings
@mathewgillings.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at WU Vienna. Research interests: corpus-assisted methods, business discourse, deception and (im)politeness.🗣️💻
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After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!
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#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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Florent Moncomble’s corpus tools
A collection of tools for collecting and analysing corpora of online media discourse
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
August 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#Linguistics
2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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2 new additions in my #corpus toolbox, geared towards the study of the meta-discourse of press coverage: the Guardian and Figaro Comments Corpus Builders can be used to collect corpora of article comments from those two online newspapers.
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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
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!
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An excellent article (use link).
Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience.
#Deception
crestresearch.ac.uk/download/490...
Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience.
#Deception
crestresearch.ac.uk/download/490...
July 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
An excellent article (use link).
Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience.
#Deception
crestresearch.ac.uk/download/490...
Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience.
#Deception
crestresearch.ac.uk/download/490...
It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again — including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
www.cambridge.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It seems that the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series is free to download for the duration of #CL2025 again — including my own. I’m never one to pass up a freebie, so do take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
If you’re going to #CL2025 and interested in either health communication, or methodology papers more broadly, our work here should be of interest. And, more importantly, it’s @janadeclercq.bsky.social’s first corpus conference, so do say hello if you see her! 😉😀
Getting ready to go to Corpus Linguistics in Birmingham #CL2025 next week! Will be presenting the paper I've written with @mathewingram.com and Isolde van Dorst. We've compared patients' and health care providers' discourses in chronic pain consultations, using a corpus-assisted DA approach.
June 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you’re going to #CL2025 and interested in either health communication, or methodology papers more broadly, our work here should be of interest. And, more importantly, it’s @janadeclercq.bsky.social’s first corpus conference, so do say hello if you see her! 😉😀
That’s a wrap on #IPrA2025! We organised a panel on regional (im)politeness variation, presented our own work on variation in the USA, and then gave a methods paper looking at discourses of chronic pain from both an interactional sociolinguistics and a CADS perspective. What a great few days. 🇦🇺
June 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
That’s a wrap on #IPrA2025! We organised a panel on regional (im)politeness variation, presented our own work on variation in the USA, and then gave a methods paper looking at discourses of chronic pain from both an interactional sociolinguistics and a CADS perspective. What a great few days. 🇦🇺
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The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!
June 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
The word is out! Next IPrA is in our (Finnish) neck of the woods, in Helsinki 🇫🇮 Pragmaticians, converge!
This week I’m in Brisbane for the #IPrA2025 conference. It was straight into it last Saturday, giving a pre-conference workshop on Corpus Pragmatics with participants from 11 countries. A real delight! 🇦🇺
June 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This week I’m in Brisbane for the #IPrA2025 conference. It was straight into it last Saturday, giving a pre-conference workshop on Corpus Pragmatics with participants from 11 countries. A real delight! 🇦🇺
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International Pragmatics Conference just kicking off at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Always a great opportunity to pick up conversations with so many friends and colleagues as if no time had passed since we last met.
June 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
International Pragmatics Conference just kicking off at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Always a great opportunity to pick up conversations with so many friends and colleagues as if no time had passed since we last met.
Thanks to those posting from #ICAME46 this week so we can follow along vicariously. 😀 This workshop yesterday on speech act development sounded really great.
First day of #ICAME46 will be the busiest for me. Co-hosting the workshop on "Speech Acts in Formal and Informal Interactions in English: Mapping the Past, Exploring the Future" with @racheledf.bsky.social & Christine Elsweiler & presenting on complaints later 🤞
June 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thanks to those posting from #ICAME46 this week so we can follow along vicariously. 😀 This workshop yesterday on speech act development sounded really great.
A few photos from Bergen last week during the Association for Business Communication conference where I presented some work on the discourse of corporate wrongdoing. Stunning city with some particularly friendly four-legged residents who don’t seem to mind the chilly summers! 🇳🇴
June 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A few photos from Bergen last week during the Association for Business Communication conference where I presented some work on the discourse of corporate wrongdoing. Stunning city with some particularly friendly four-legged residents who don’t seem to mind the chilly summers! 🇳🇴
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🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography
👩💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?
📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.
🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca...
#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH
👩💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?
📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.
🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca...
#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH
CADSbib. An annotated bibliography for corpus and discourse research | Nathan Dykes
nfdykes.github.io
June 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🆕 CADSbib annotated bibliography
👩💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?
📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.
🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca...
#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH
👩💻 Do you work with corpora & discourse?
📚 500+ references annotated with corpora, language, tools, methods & more.
🔗 nfdykes.github.io/blog/2025/ca...
#CADS #DiscourseAnalysis #CorpusLinguistics #DH
This CfP for a special issue of Corpus Pragmatics (ed. by P. Madella) looks really great. It promises to make a significant contribution to a more linguistically-informed approach to deception (detection) - something much needed!
Calls: Corpus Pragmatics, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics - "Corpus Pragmatics in Forensic Contexts" (Jrnl)
Calls: Corpus Pragmatics, the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics - "Corpus Pragmatics in Forensic Contexts" (Jrnl)
We're inviting studies applying a Corpus Pragmatics approach to investigative and forensic text/discourse analysis, within Forensic Linguistics, including investigations into the detection of discursive deception and manipulation. The special issue is dedicated to showing the use of a mixed methods approach, combining the quantitative element of corpus-assisted investigation and a context-rich analysis and interpretation, in forensic and legal contexts.
We look forward to receiving your manusc
dlvr.it
June 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This CfP for a special issue of Corpus Pragmatics (ed. by P. Madella) looks really great. It promises to make a significant contribution to a more linguistically-informed approach to deception (detection) - something much needed!
New paper out in the International Journal of Business Communication on corporate wrongdoing -- specifically how Boeing navigated the 737 Max crisis a few years ago. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1177/2329...
May 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New paper out in the International Journal of Business Communication on corporate wrongdoing -- specifically how Boeing navigated the 737 Max crisis a few years ago. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1177/2329...
Travelling to the UK this morning to attend and give a plenary at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics. I’ll be talking about using corpus methods to study variational (im)politeness - really looking forward to being back north for a few days. 😄 mfilconf.wordpress.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Travelling to the UK this morning to attend and give a plenary at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics. I’ll be talking about using corpus methods to study variational (im)politeness - really looking forward to being back north for a few days. 😄 mfilconf.wordpress.com
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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/
Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool
ucrel.lancs.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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/
I was recently interviewed as part of @wuvienna.bsky.social's "Meet our Researchers" series. They put together a nice video about using corpus linguistics to study climate change discourse, based on my paper with Carmen Dayrell. Really happy with how this turned out! www.wu.ac.at/en/research/...
WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
www.wu.ac.at
March 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I was recently interviewed as part of @wuvienna.bsky.social's "Meet our Researchers" series. They put together a nice video about using corpus linguistics to study climate change discourse, based on my paper with Carmen Dayrell. Really happy with how this turned out! www.wu.ac.at/en/research/...
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What do you think of when you hear the term "climate change"? Whatever it may be, it's probably partly shaped by the media.
WU researcher @mathewgillings.bsky.social has looked into the discourse around climate change in UK newspapers. In our newest video, he shares some interesting results:
WU researcher @mathewgillings.bsky.social has looked into the discourse around climate change in UK newspapers. In our newest video, he shares some interesting results:
Climate Change and the Media | Meet Our Researchers: Mathew Gillings
YouTube video by Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
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March 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What do you think of when you hear the term "climate change"? Whatever it may be, it's probably partly shaped by the media.
WU researcher @mathewgillings.bsky.social has looked into the discourse around climate change in UK newspapers. In our newest video, he shares some interesting results:
WU researcher @mathewgillings.bsky.social has looked into the discourse around climate change in UK newspapers. In our newest video, he shares some interesting results:
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One of the architects of LIWC @ryanboyd.io got in touch about our paper – he’s written this blog post about
www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
First we’d like to say that Ryan makes interesting points in his rejoinder and we absolutely welcome this…
www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
First we’d like to say that Ryan makes interesting points in his rejoinder and we absolutely welcome this…
Language Analysis Across Contexts: A Dialogue Between Forensic Linguistics and Psychology — A Rejoinder to Hunter & Grant (2025) – Pancakes? WTF?
www.pancakes.wtf
January 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
One of the architects of LIWC @ryanboyd.io got in touch about our paper – he’s written this blog post about
www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
First we’d like to say that Ryan makes interesting points in his rejoinder and we absolutely welcome this…
www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
First we’d like to say that Ryan makes interesting points in his rejoinder and we absolutely welcome this…
My paper with Sylvia Jaworska on methodological triangulation is now out in Applied Corpus Linguistics! We look at how the chosen analytical method affects the identification and labelling of topics in a corpus. How does the amount of available context change interpretation? doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
My paper with Sylvia Jaworska on methodological triangulation is now out in Applied Corpus Linguistics! We look at how the chosen analytical method affects the identification and labelling of topics in a corpus. How does the amount of available context change interpretation? doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
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After 7 months of post-editing and finalising transcription, my chronic pain corpus is finally ready for corpus analysis! It's been a ride! But so happy to be on it with @mathewgillings.bsky.social and Isolde van Dorst! Now on to analyses and then writing.
January 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
After 7 months of post-editing and finalising transcription, my chronic pain corpus is finally ready for corpus analysis! It's been a ride! But so happy to be on it with @mathewgillings.bsky.social and Isolde van Dorst! Now on to analyses and then writing.
A really great paper and the first to offer a systematic deconstruction of LIWC, detailing why it fails to stand up to linguistic scrutiny. A definite must read!
Delighted to announce the pre-publication of this paper; it's one I've wanted to write for a while and was really pleased when Madi Hunter decided to give this the impetus and the heavy lifting that it required.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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#linguistics
#forensicliguistics
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#forensicliguistics
Is LIWC reliable, efficient, and effective for the analysis of large online datasets in forensic and security contexts?
This article evaluates the reliability, efficiency, and effectiveness of Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Boyd et al., 2022) for the analysis …
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January 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A really great paper and the first to offer a systematic deconstruction of LIWC, detailing why it fails to stand up to linguistic scrutiny. A definite must read!
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Great to be part of this special issue on corpus approaches to business communication! Thanks for all your work @mathewgillings.bsky.social and @susannekopf.bsky.social and congrats to all the authors.
Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
December 12, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Great to be part of this special issue on corpus approaches to business communication! Thanks for all your work @mathewgillings.bsky.social and @susannekopf.bsky.social and congrats to all the authors.