Mathew Gillings
@mathewgillings.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at WU Vienna. Research interests: corpus-assisted methods, business discourse, deception and (im)politeness.🗣️💻
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. 🇦🇺
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! 🇦🇺
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! 🇳🇴
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
Specifically, we:
- Retrieve topics via topic modelling, then label them via LLM prompting, eyeballing and concordance analysis
- Retrieve topics via closing reading (by asking two analysts to read an entire corpus)
We then:
- Compare results between analysts
- Compare results between methods
- Retrieve topics via topic modelling, then label them via LLM prompting, eyeballing and concordance analysis
- Retrieve topics via closing reading (by asking two analysts to read an entire corpus)
We then:
- Compare results between analysts
- Compare results between methods
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Specifically, we:
- Retrieve topics via topic modelling, then label them via LLM prompting, eyeballing and concordance analysis
- Retrieve topics via closing reading (by asking two analysts to read an entire corpus)
We then:
- Compare results between analysts
- Compare results between methods
- Retrieve topics via topic modelling, then label them via LLM prompting, eyeballing and concordance analysis
- Retrieve topics via closing reading (by asking two analysts to read an entire corpus)
We then:
- Compare results between analysts
- Compare results between methods
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...
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 10, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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...
Honoured to receive one of this year’s WU Research Awards for my paper on changing discourses of climate change in the UK press (published w/ Carmen Dayrell). Enjoyed a lovely ceremony last week, even if a little disconcerting seeing myself on the big screen. 😊 academic.oup.com/applij/artic...
December 9, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Honoured to receive one of this year’s WU Research Awards for my paper on changing discourses of climate change in the UK press (published w/ Carmen Dayrell). Enjoyed a lovely ceremony last week, even if a little disconcerting seeing myself on the big screen. 😊 academic.oup.com/applij/artic...