💭Imagine you want to analyse language and communication across broadsheets and tabloids. How would you do that❓

This term we're teaching 'Statistics and Data Visualization' for the MA in CORPUS LINGUISTICS❗️
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Lancaster University is 3rd in the World for Linguistics❗️ Come to study and do research with us – applications are still open.
 
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A little blog post on Shakespeare’s birthday ukri.org/blog/shakespea… Arts and Humanities Research Council Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Project

Every time a league table comes out, as academics, we struggle about what to do with the results, no matter whether they're good or bad

Why?

Well, league tables are far from perfect. Doesn't matter the league. Doesn't matter the table. It has problems. Guaranteed

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We are delighted to have been ranked the third best Linguistics department in the world according to the QS World University Rankings! QS Top Universities Lancaster University

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We’re very proud to have 11 of our subjects ranked in the global top 100, with linguistics (Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni) placed third in the world! Find out more about the new QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 released today

#QSWUR | QS World University Rankings

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Our department was founded in 1974, which makes 2024 our 50th anniversary! 🎉

We have a series of events celebrating our anniversary over the coming months. You can find more details here: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50…

Check out Stephen Levinson's cosmic vision of the field of pragmatics - what we know about what we don't know. Open access in CUP's Elements in Pragmatics series. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Our edited book on The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is out today! Such a pleasure to work with Tuija Virtanen and all the authors who have made brilliant contributions, with special thanks Jonathan Culpeper for his epilogue and @johnbenjamins for their wonderful work benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.3…

Join us on 🗓 Tuesday 5th March at 10am (UK time 🕙) for a❗FREE Webinar❗to learn more about Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni Masters Programmes. We are 2nd in the UK for Linguistics 🏆 and 10th in the world for Linguistics🏆 Register here 🔗 lnkd.in/eiT6N_WX

Chinese New Year celebrations in Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni. Calligraphy and a fantastic feast!

Interested in building your own corpus❓
Apply for the Postgraduate Course

➡️ “CORPUS DESIGN & DATA COLLECTION” Lancaster University
• online
• for credit
• lasts 10 weeks
• runs January to March 2024
• apply now

➡️Details:lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/ma…

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Dr Sam Kirkham gives us a tour of the Phonetics Lab at Lancaster University 👅 Sam Kirkham

Here, he shows us the electromagnetic articulography machine.

There's still a lot more to see in the lab, so we'll share those videos soon!
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We offer the world’s only MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science (FLiSS). FLiSS is based on-campus at Lancaster University. In it you'll learn about forensic text analysis (FL) and speech science (FSS) in multiple investigative and intelligence contexts: lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgrad… 1/

Save the date: We are delighted to announce that the next Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics will take place on 24-28 June 2024 at Lancaster University. The applications open in January. See you in the summer! Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni @CorpusSocialSc
More at: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummersc…

Coming soon! My analysis of Cancel Culture

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A new series of videos highlighting the interesting topics that students can study in our Department - we’ll be posting one every day for the next week!

Today we have “Sounds of the worlds languages” by Claire Nance

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Would you like to incorporate #corpora and data-driven learning into your teaching? Lancaster University Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni offers a part-time online accredited course on 'Using corpora in language teaching' - so you can study while you work anywhere in the world. Starting January 2024.

Considering a Postgraduate Certificate in Language Testing? Lancaster University Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni offers part-time online programmes so you can study while you work anywhere in the world. We have a worldwide reputation for excellence-Top 10 globally QS2023. Info: lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

We had an amazing time running our Being Human Festival event in Burnley Market today! We recorded 32 lovely people as part of our ultrasound study of East Lancs and talked to many more Lancaster University Phonetics Lab Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni #BeingHuman2023