News Back to 'Centre for Corpus Research' Latest storiesRSS FeedAtom Feed OutLiar DescriptionOlu Popoola, a PhD researcher at CCR, has launched OutLiar, a deception blog that showcases investigative linguistic techniques and explores instances of (alleged) duplicity, doublespeak and disinformation in global affairs past and present.Date:10/10/2018 Patterns and Constructions in Language Teaching and Lexicography DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston will travel to Guangdong University of Guangzhou City to deliver a five day workshop.Date:02/10/2018 Analysis of billions of Twitter words reveals how American English develops DescriptionNew words in American English tend to develop in five regional linguistic 'hotspots' before spreading across the United States and beyond, a new study reveals.Date:26/09/2018 Pattern Grammar, Corpora and Applied Linguistics: Implications for theory and practice DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston will deliver the 32nd SAAL Lecture on Thursday 11 October 2018 at the National University of Singapore.Date:26/09/2018 The Language of Fake News DescriptionWriting for the Birmingham Brief, Professor Jack Grieve, Professorial Fellow in Corpus Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics examines the challenge of fake news, and how the language used in it could be the key to its detection.Date:06/09/2018 The Language of Fake News DescriptionWriting for the Birmingham Brief, Professor Jack Grieve, Professorial Fellow in Corpus Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Linguistics examines the challenge of fake news, and how the language used in it could be the key to its detection.Date:06/09/2018 Towards One Thousand Constructions: rethinking the learner's understanding of lexis and grammar DescriptionProfessor Susan Hunston is giving a plenary talk at this year's Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC), which will take place on 18-21 July 2018 at the University of Cambridge.Date:11/07/2018 Trust management strategies in business communication DescriptionDr Matteo Fuoli invited to give a plenary talk at this summer's Association for Business Communication Regional Conference for Europe, Africa, and Middle East.Date:02/07/2018 The Hermeneutic Cyborg DescriptionProfessor Stefan Evert (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) delivered the 2018 Sinclair Lecture.Date:26/06/2018 CLiC on tour in China DescriptionIn June Professor Michaela Mahlberg, who has been leading the CLiC project, will give a keynote at the 4th Corpus Linguistics in China Conference and then speak at Beihang University (Beijing) and Southwest University (Chongqing).Date:25/05/2018 Displaying 1 to 10 of 103 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next