Niall Curry
@niallrcurry.bsky.social
Reader in Languages and Linguistics, Manchester Met • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Climate Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides • FRSA
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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...
September 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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...
Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Had a nice opportunity today to reflect on all the brilliant linguistic research taking place at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social over the last year or so! So many exciting things ahead and in store! @manmetuni.bsky.social
A pleasure to present at Xi'an Jiaotong University today on AI and Applied Linguistics! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Thanks @tonymcenery.bsky.social for the invitation!
September 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A pleasure to present at Xi'an Jiaotong University today on AI and Applied Linguistics! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Thanks @tonymcenery.bsky.social for the invitation!
The first session of our "Transforming Research into Practice" workshop series is underway with Masatoshi Sato. Great engagement from researchers & language teachers across the world 🌎 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @eurosla.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our future workshops over the next year! ⬇️
September 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The first session of our "Transforming Research into Practice" workshop series is underway with Masatoshi Sato. Great engagement from researchers & language teachers across the world 🌎 @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social @eurosla.bsky.social Keep an eye out for our future workshops over the next year! ⬇️
After lunch, now an exploration of Romanian citizen identity construction in the @fomatplay.bsky.social corpus with @perez-paredes.bsky.social @paguado.bsky.social @patriciosantiago.bsky.social & Pablo Muñiz Cegarra!
September 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
After lunch, now an exploration of Romanian citizen identity construction in the @fomatplay.bsky.social corpus with @perez-paredes.bsky.social @paguado.bsky.social @patriciosantiago.bsky.social & Pablo Muñiz Cegarra!
At @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social, we are hosting "The Transforming Research into Practice (TRiP)". Supported by the EuroSLA, the programme is dedicated to developing pathways for collaboratively transforming research findings into practical teaching resources and practices.
September 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
At @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social, we are hosting "The Transforming Research into Practice (TRiP)". Supported by the EuroSLA, the programme is dedicated to developing pathways for collaboratively transforming research findings into practical teaching resources and practices.
Now @katherineeruss1.bsky.social sharing her & her team's work on the theoretical & methodological challenges faced when analysing the social construction of bordering, debordering, and rebordering practices in interviews with EU migrants. @fomatplay.bsky.social @fomatplay-it.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Now @katherineeruss1.bsky.social sharing her & her team's work on the theoretical & methodological challenges faced when analysing the social construction of bordering, debordering, and rebordering practices in interviews with EU migrants. @fomatplay.bsky.social @fomatplay-it.bsky.social
Great talk from @ehidalgotenorio.bsky.social, Borja Manzano Vásquez, and Sergio Castro Cortacero on migration, fake news, and media literacy among Spanish secondary school students! Nice example of how we can bridge education, discourse studies, and SFL! @fomatplay.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Great talk from @ehidalgotenorio.bsky.social, Borja Manzano Vásquez, and Sergio Castro Cortacero on migration, fake news, and media literacy among Spanish secondary school students! Nice example of how we can bridge education, discourse studies, and SFL! @fomatplay.bsky.social
A privilege to speak with Ruth Wodak and Chair @katherineeruss1.bsky.social today at @fomatplay.bsky.social Conference in Granada about CDA, corpus linguistics, migration, and discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A privilege to speak with Ruth Wodak and Chair @katherineeruss1.bsky.social today at @fomatplay.bsky.social Conference in Granada about CDA, corpus linguistics, migration, and discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
It's a pleasure to be in Granada at the FOM@Play Conference organised by Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio! Looks to be an exciting week ahead! We're opening now with a few words from @perez-paredes.bsky.social !
September 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's a pleasure to be in Granada at the FOM@Play Conference organised by Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio! Looks to be an exciting week ahead! We're opening now with a few words from @perez-paredes.bsky.social !
Using the dimensions scores, we then clustered the texts to see how they group. And we found 4 clusters, which we then studied manually to determine text types
August 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Using the dimensions scores, we then clustered the texts to see how they group. And we found 4 clusters, which we then studied manually to determine text types
Enjoying #CL2025 and had a great time presenting on Monday with @fabrichunter.bsky.social on intersecting discourses of climate and migration, and today as part of @juliakrasselt.bsky.social & @isabellesuremann.bsky.social's panel on contrastive corpus discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Enjoying #CL2025 and had a great time presenting on Monday with @fabrichunter.bsky.social on intersecting discourses of climate and migration, and today as part of @juliakrasselt.bsky.social & @isabellesuremann.bsky.social's panel on contrastive corpus discourse studies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
Happy to see our chapter (with @perez-paredes.bsky.social) on "Corpus Linguistics in Languages for Specifc Purposes" out in "Specialized Communication: An International Handbook", edited by Thorsten Roelcke, Ruth Breeze, and Jan Engberg! @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
June 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy to see our chapter (with @perez-paredes.bsky.social) on "Corpus Linguistics in Languages for Specifc Purposes" out in "Specialized Communication: An International Handbook", edited by Thorsten Roelcke, Ruth Breeze, and Jan Engberg! @um.es @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Enjoying @khawlabadwan.bsky.social's talk on unthinking language and decentering traditional views of 'mastery' in language learning contexts @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Enjoying @khawlabadwan.bsky.social's talk on unthinking language and decentering traditional views of 'mastery' in language learning contexts @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
Having a great time at the annual NATESOL conference and honoured to have given the opening plenary. I talked about corpus linguistics and language learners with a focus on developments in AI and critical AI and corpus literacies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Having a great time at the annual NATESOL conference and honoured to have given the opening plenary. I talked about corpus linguistics and language learners with a focus on developments in AI and critical AI and corpus literacies! @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social
Happy to have a copy of this in print! Congrats to Defeng Li & John Corbett. My chapter with @tonymcenery.bsky.social on the past, present & future of the field reflects on the different concpetual approaches needed to work across texts, languages & cultures. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
December 3, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Happy to have a copy of this in print! Congrats to Defeng Li & John Corbett. My chapter with @tonymcenery.bsky.social on the past, present & future of the field reflects on the different concpetual approaches needed to work across texts, languages & cultures. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Had a nice time in Shanghai this week, presenting my work on Generative AI, Ethics, Reliability, and Representation at the Global China Academy's 9th Dialogue event. Also honoured to have been appointed as an Associate Fellow of the Global China Academy!
November 29, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Had a nice time in Shanghai this week, presenting my work on Generative AI, Ethics, Reliability, and Representation at the Global China Academy's 9th Dialogue event. Also honoured to have been appointed as an Associate Fellow of the Global China Academy!
Had a nice time at the CALS UL seminar at the University of Limerick today! I was talking about climate discourses across languages and cultures, and we had such an interesting discussion after! Thanks for the invitation!
November 15, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Had a nice time at the CALS UL seminar at the University of Limerick today! I was talking about climate discourses across languages and cultures, and we had such an interesting discussion after! Thanks for the invitation!
🚨 Save the date 🚨 Join us on January 17th for the free online BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium: Corpus Perspectives on Crisis Discourse at MMU's Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics. See the programme ⬇️ (PDF: shorturl.at/lqX25)
& you can register here: shorturl.at/hGLMQ
& you can register here: shorturl.at/hGLMQ
November 20, 2023 at 10:48 AM
🚨 Save the date 🚨 Join us on January 17th for the free online BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Symposium: Corpus Perspectives on Crisis Discourse at MMU's Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics. See the programme ⬇️ (PDF: shorturl.at/lqX25)
& you can register here: shorturl.at/hGLMQ
& you can register here: shorturl.at/hGLMQ