News Back to 'Centre for Corpus Research' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed Wicked witches and evil queens: why children's books need more female villains DescriptionIn their Conversation article, Dr Anna Cermakova and Prof Michaela Mahlberg write about gender imbalance in children's literature – with examples from the ChiLit corpus.Date:28/03/2018 What's in a Word: Exam-ready with CLiC Description"With less than fifty days until the Literature exams, this exciting new approach could not have fallen into teachers' hands at a better time!" In her guest post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, teacher Katherine Howard (Brockington College, South Leicestershire) writes about using the CLiC web app for GCSE English revision with a case study of 'A Christmas Carol'.Date:28/03/2018 CLiC web app listed as a digital literary stylistics resource on the SIG_DLS Blog DescriptionThe CLiC web app has been featured as a resource by the Digital Literary Stylistics Special Interest Group at the University of Basel's Digital Humanities Lab. Check out the guest post introducing CLiC on the accompanying SIG_DLS (Doing Digital Literary Stylistics) Blog.Date:28/03/2018 Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar DescriptionDr Nicholas Groom, Professor Susan Hunston and Dr Florent Perek will be participating in the Colloquium 'Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Innovation and Application of Corpus-based Construction Grammar' at AAAL 2018, Chicago, Sunday 25 March 2018.Date:21/03/2018 CLiC: studying literature in the digital age DescriptionProfessor Michaela Mahlberg is giving a talk at the University of Huddersfield as part of the Research Seminars series: "CLiC: studying literature in the digital age".Date:14/03/2018 'High prices, big posters, and great confidence … Town very much excited on the subject': Charles Dickens on the Birmingham stage in 1848 Description"Delighted to find that we have left so agreeable an impression in Birmingham" – Martin Killeen's guest post on the #CLiCDickens Blog traces how Dickens organised a local amateur performance with material held by the Cadbury Research Library.Date:14/03/2018 CLiC in the classroom DescriptionIn her guest post for the CLiC Dickens Blog, teacher Lorraine Adriano shares her experience of implementing the CLiC web app in her English classroom.Date:07/03/2018 Boris Johnson on Brexit DescriptionOn 13 February 2018, Boris Johnson made a widely-reported speech. This blogpost by Professor Susan Hunston analyses its linguistic strategies.Date:19/02/2018 Dickens and the History of Literary and Linguistic Computing – a (very) short retrospective DescriptionIn his guest post on the CLiC Dickens Blog, Martin Wynne (OTA) sketches the developments in digital text repositories and makes a case for sustainable and accessible data and tools in 'digital literary research'.Date:07/02/2018 CLiC and Dickens's not-so-conspicuous techniques of characterisation: Reporting verbs DescriptionIn this guest post for the CLiC Dickens Blog, Pablo Ruano San Segundo discusses gendered reporting verbs and alliterative patterns of character names and reporting verbs found with the CLiC web app.Date:15/01/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 89 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next