Corpus linguistics – using computers to analyse texts – can spot patterns and nuances that might otherwise go unnoticed.
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Linguistic analysis shows that activists and politicians have very different messages when it comes to the environment.
Technology has brought significant changes to the way we use language.
The way the press talks about obesity has changed over time.
During the pandemic, researchers have treated Twitter as a sprawling and evolving historical document.
Dickens had some clever little narrative tricks, which become clear when his work is analysed as a single data set.
Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use today.
I analysed 15 million words written by major oil companies and found their usage of ‘climate change’ peaked a decade ago.
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Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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UKRI Future Leader Fellow, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, Birmingham City University
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Chair professor in English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University
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Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Birmingham
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Reader in Sign Linguistics, UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL
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Professor in Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics, York St John University
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Heriot-Watt University
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Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of Reading
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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Research Fellow, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham