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Centre for Language Education Research (CLER), University of Leeds (2018-2020)

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Adverbs on the move: investigating publisher application of corpus research on recent language change to ELT coursebook development

Corpora in applied linguistics: Broadening the agenda

Specifying challenges in transcribing covert recordings: Implications for forensic transcription

Brits have washed their mouths out! Use of common swear words has declined by more than a QUARTER since the 1990s - with f*** overtaking b***dy as the most popular, surprising study finds

Dr Love is a researcher and educator in English language and linguistics, with a specialism in corpus linguistics. He applies corpus methods to explore how English is used in a range of contexts, including casual conversation and public communications. Their research harnesses the power of technology to better understand how people use language and, ultimately, help people to communicate more effectively.

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Senior Lecturer, Languages and Applied Linguistics

 CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. 

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education. 

To mark the 25th episode and second anniversary in 2024, this episode reflects on the incredible two-year journey, expressing gratitude to exceptional guests and listeners spanning over 30 countries. In this milestone episode, the spotlight is on Professor Lawrence Anthony, the brilliant mind behind AntConc, a widely used and freely available corpus tool.

Listeners are invited to join a profound exploration into AntConc's story, development, and its impact on corpus linguistics. Professor Lawrence Anthony, based at Waseda University in Japan, directs the Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering. 

With over two decades of expertise in educational technology, natural language processing, and genre analysis, he has been a pioneer in developing educational software for corpus linguistics enthusiasts. 

Listeners can anticipate a captivating conversation as CorpusCast delves into the world of AntConc, gaining insights into its significance in the field. 

The third season kicks off with Professor Lawrence Anthony, promising a knowledge-packed episode. A heartfelt thank you goes out to all CorpusCast listeners for their continuous support. Here's to more discoveries, learning, and growth in 2024! 

Happy New Year, and welcome to another exciting episode of CorpusCast!

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CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Laurence Anthony on AntConc

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 The latest episode of the Aston Originals podcast, CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love, offers listeners a peek into the remarkable evolution of Sketch Engine, the ground-breaking corpus query and management system developed by Lexical Computing. 

In this episode, Dr Miloš Jakubíček, the CEO of Lexical Computing, takes centre stage to narrate the fascinating journey of Sketch Engine. As an accomplished NLP researcher and software engineer, Dr Jakubíček’s profound expertise in the intersection of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics and lexicography promises to unravel the story behind one of the most widely used and celebrated corpus platforms in existence.

 For over 20 years, Sketch Engine has been a cornerstone of research in various domains, including lexicography, language learning and, naturally, corpus linguistics. This episode delves into the origins of Sketch Engine, tracing its growth from its inception to its current status as a trusted companion of linguists, researchers and language enthusiasts worldwide.

Listeners will get an insider's perspective on the monumental impact of Sketch Engine in processing vast text corpora and deciphering morphologically rich languages. Dr Jakubíček sheds light on the tool's pivotal role in advancing research in these areas, reflecting on its dynamic journey from conception to its position as a game-changing resource for language professionals.

Meanwhile Dr Love is thrilled to present this engaging episode, which coincides with the announcement made at the recent Corpus Linguistics Conference. With excitement resonating in his voice, Dr Love shared that Aston University, alongside Birmingham City University and the University of Birmingham, will co-host the upcoming Corpus Linguistics Conference in 2025. This exciting news, revealed during the conference in Lancaster, promises to gather linguists, researchers and enthusiasts in Birmingham for an event that is expected to be a milestone in the world of linguistic exploration.

Don't miss out on this riveting episode, where the past, present and future of corpus linguistics converge through the lens of Sketch Engine. Tune in for an enlightening conversation with Dr Miloš Jakubíček, available here and on all major podcast platforms.

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CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Dr Miloš Jakubíček on Sketch Engine

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Hello, hello, hello, everyone! Welcome back to Corpuscast, the podcast that brings you the fascinating world of Corpus Linguistics. Can you believe it? We're already on episode 19! Since our launch in January 2022, we've been exploring the incredible impact of Corpus Linguistics on society. And trust me, today's episode is going to blow your mind!

As always, I'm your host Robbie Love, a linguist from Aston University. Today, we dive deep into the realm of anthropology, the study of human societies and cultures. 

Get ready for an engaging discussion on the origins of humanity, the evolution of civilizations, and the incredible diversity that exists across our world.

Our special guests for today's episode are none other than Professor Insa Nolte, a leading anthropologist from the University of Birmingham, and Dr. Clyde Ancarno, a brilliant corpus linguist and senior lecturer in Applied Linguistics and Education at King's College London.

Together, Insa and Clyde collaborated on a groundbreaking research project in Southwest Nigeria, exploring how members of different religious groups coexist peacefully. 

Their findings shed light on the intricate social structures that maintain harmony within diverse communities.

Join us as we delve into the thought-provoking questions that shape our understanding of humanity. Who are we and where do we come from? How have civilizations transformed throughout history? What factors contribute to the functioning of our societies?

This captivating conversation will unveil the incredible insights brought forth by Corpus Linguistics and its intersection with anthropology. Discover how language and culture intertwine to shape our identities and communities.

Don't miss out on this enriching episode! Tune in to Corpuscast below, and let's embark on this captivating journey together.

 Subscribe to Corpuscast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, for more thought-provoking episodes exploring the boundless possibilities of Corpus Linguistics in education, health, technology, and beyond. Stay curious, stay inspired! ?

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CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Dr Clyde Ancarno & Professor Insa Nolte on Anthropology

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

Dr Mark McGlashan (Birmingham City University) joins Robbie Love to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research on discrimination in a range of contexts.

Mark’s research interests predominantly centre on the synthesis and application of methods from Corpus Linguistics and (Critical) Discourse Studies to study social issues relevant to a focus on language and discrimination such as nationalism, racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Before joining Birmingham City University, Mark worked as Research Fellow at the WMG Cyber Security Centre, University of Warwick and Senior Research Associate at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University.

Mark studied at Lancaster University where he earned his doctorate in Applied Linguistics. His PhD thesis examined representations of same-sex parent families in children’s picturebooks, a rare collection of publications he has widely written and presented on.

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Episode 8 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Dr Mark McGlashan on RESEARCHING DISCRIMINATION

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

Professor Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) joins Robbie to discuss the development of the FutureLearn online course Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation.

Tony has published widely on corpus linguistics and is the author of at least 18 books including Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (with Andrew Hardie) and the forthcoming book Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics (with Vaclav Brezina).

In 2013, Tony founded the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, which went on to win a prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for research in 2015.

Tony is heavily involved in applied corpus research and has worked with a range of partner organizations in the public sector (e.g. the Department of Culture Media and Sport, the Environment Agency and the Home Office) and the private sector (e.g. with British Telecom, IBM, Nokia and Research in Motion).

Tony was Robbie’s PhD supervisor at Lancaster University, where they worked together on the construction of the spoken component of the British National Corpus 2014.

The 2022 iteration of the FutureLearn course Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation will launch on 19th September. For more information, visit 

Episode 9 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Tony McEnery on THE CORPUS MOOC

How literally is ‘literally’ changing?: Three Minute Lectures

Spoken corpora are collections of transcripts of recorded spoken language. By studying them, we can gain many insights about the nature of spoken English, including how it is changing over time. Researchers around the world have had the opportunity to study the corpus and make new discoveries about spoken English. This session explores some of the latest findings about recent change in grammar and vocabulary in spoken British English, and how these findings can inform English language teaching.

If you have any questions after watching this video, add it to our Insights on Demand event padlet here:  https://padlet.com/CUPELT/InsightsonDemand. A member of the Cambridge team will answer as soon as possible!

What have we learned about spoken English from the British National Corpus?

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

On this episode, Professor Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) joins Robbie Love to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research in computational and digital humanities.

Stephanie conducts research in the areas of developing tools and methods for corpus linguistics and digital humanities, language technology and corpus-based discourse analysis.

The Computational Corpus Linguistics Group at FAU carries out foundational methodological research on the quantitative analysis of large text corpora. Their research lies at the intersection of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and the digital humanities.

The algorithms and software tools developed by the group support innovative studies in the digital humanities and social sciences as well as practical applications in language technology. A particular focus lies on understanding cooccurrence phenomena and their application in corpus-based discourse analysis.

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Episode 7 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Stephanie Evert on COMPUTATIONAL HUMANITIES

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

Professor Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham) joins Dr Robbie Love to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research in literary linguistics.

Michaela’s research views language as a social phenomenon and explores the way in which people use language to understand and shape the world we live in. 

A large part of Michaela’s research focuses on the language of Dickens’s fiction, literary linguistics, and discourse analysis.

Michaela is Director of the Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham. CCR supports the use of corpus analysis in research, teaching and learning, with particular focus on the links between psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, literary stylistics and statistics.

The University of Birmingham has an established tradition in corpus linguistics, with the development of major corpora since the 1970s, including the 17 million word Birmingham Collection of English Text, developed in the 1980s, and the Bank of English, in the 1990s. Under the direction of John Sinclair, Birmingham hosted the Cobuild project, and developed corpus lexicography in the 1980s.

The CLiC web app, started by Michaela, demonstrates through corpus stylistics how computer-assisted methods can be used to study literary texts and lead to new insights into how readers perceive fictional characters.

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Episode 10 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Michaela Mahlberg on LITERARY LINGUISTICS

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

On this episode, Professor Ute Römer and Professor Clark D. Cunningham (Georgia State University) join Robbie Love to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research in legal interpretation.

Ute Römer is a professor of applied linguistics in the department of applied linguistics and English as a second Llanguage at Georgia State University. 

Professor Clark D. Cunningham is W. Lee Burge chair in law & ethics at the Georgia State University College of Law.

Ute’s primary research interests and areas in which she has published include corpus linguistics, phraseology, usage-based second language acquisition, academic discourse analysis, and the application of corpora in language learning and teaching.

She serves on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals (including the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Corpora, and English Text Construction) and is General Editor of the book series Studies in Corpus Linguistics (John Benjamins).

Ute has written and edited several books including “Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing” (with Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal) and “Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy”.

He is the director of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (NIFTEP), a consortium of ethics centres at six universities, and the co-editor of the International Forum on Teaching Legal Ethics & Professionalism.

Clark publishes on a variety of topics with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and comparative scholarship. His article in the Iowa Law Review, applying semantics to analyse the ways the meaning of "search" has evolved in U.S. constitutional law, won the national Scholarly Papers Competition sponsored by the Association of American Law Schools.

Clark previously served as the Convenor of the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Justice Education, an international organisation of over 700 law teachers, lawyers, and leaders of non-governmental organisations from more than 50 countries.

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CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Ute Römer and Clark D Cunningham on LEGAL INTERPRETATION

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. 

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

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Episode 1 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Paul Baker on SOCIAL JUSTICE

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

On this episode, Professor Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney) joins Robbie to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research in TV dialogue and screenwriting.

Monika's research interests include topics in the areas of corpus linguistics, ecolinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, media linguistics, and, more specifically, the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude.

The Sydney Corpus Lab aims to promote corpus linguistics in Australia. Its mission is to build research capacity in corpus linguistics at the University of Sydney, to connect Australian corpus linguists, and to promote the method in Australia, both in linguistics and in other disciplines.

The Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue (SydTV) is a corpus of approximately 275,000 words of dialogue from 66 US TV series.



CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Monika Bednarek on TV DIALOGUE and SCREENWRITING

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. 

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

On this episode, Professor Eric Friginal (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Dr Malila Prado (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College) and Andrew Schneider (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) join Robbie Love to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research in communication between airline pilots and air traffic controllers.

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Episode 6 | Professor Eric Friginal, Dr Malila Prado and Andrew Schneider on AVIATION COMMUNICATION

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. 

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

In this episode, Robbie talks to Dr Mark Nartey from the University of the West of England on the theme 'marginalised voices'.

Mark is an interdisciplinary scholar who investigates how people deploy language in specific spatiotemporal and sociocultural contexts to achieve various aims, including identity construction and negotiation, self-promotion and othering as well as argumentation, resistance and (de)legitimation.

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Episode 5 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Dr Mark Nartey on MARGINALISED VOICES

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. 

Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

In this episode, Professor Tim Grant & Dr Lucia Busso (Aston University) join Robbie to discuss the contribution of corpus linguistics to research in the area of forensic linguistics.

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Episode 4 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Prof Tim Grant &amp; Dr Lucia Busso on FORENSIC LINGUISTICS

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. 

In this episode of CorpusCast, our topic is how corpus linguistics contributes to research about education. 

Dr Love will be speaking to Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at the University of Murcia, Spain. 

Pascual has research interests are learner language variation, the use of corpora and digital resources in language education and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. 

Today they will be having a chat about his work in applying corpus linguistics to educational contexts.

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Episode 3 | CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love: Professor Pascual Pérez-Paredes on LANGUAGE EDUCATION

CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education.

Dr Love's guest this time is Elena Semino. She is Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University, which provides insights into the use and manipulation of language in society in a host of areas of pressing concern, including education, hate crime and communication about health and illness.

Elena’s work on cancer and end of life care was published in the 2018 book Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life (with Zsófia Demjén, Andrew Hardie, Sheila Payne and Paul Rayson).

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