{"id":15,"date":"2017-12-27T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:00:22","slug":"language-discourse-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/corpussummerschools\/language-discourse-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Language, discourse &amp; society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The summer school in <strong>Corpus linguistics for analysis of language, discourse and society<\/strong>\u00a0is aimed\u00a0at students and researchers from different disciplines\u00a0 (e.g. linguistics, sociology, political science, social anthropology, education, economics, gender studies, history etc) who are interested in analysing language data using quantitative (corpus) methods. Participants in this summer school are not expected to have any background in (corpus) linguistics, but basic computational skills are assumed. Across different fields of humanities and social science,\u00a0there is a growing need for advanced digital-methods training. This methodological need can be answered with corpus linguistic tools and techniques, which were developed for linguistically-informed analysis of large amounts of text. These methods will be introduced in the summer school and illustrated with applications to different areas of linguistic and social analysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The programme consists of a series of intensive sessions, involving <strong>lectures<\/strong> and <strong>practical sessions<\/strong> in which participants are trained in the use of corpus tools. The summer school has <strong>two main aims<\/strong>: a. to <strong>develop practical skills<\/strong> with using corpus techniques and software and b. to demonstrate <strong>how these methods can be applied<\/strong> to different linguistic areas and research questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0The topics include, for example:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>Building and analysing own corpora<\/li>\n<li>Collocation analysis and visualisation<\/li>\n<li>Corpus-based discourse analysis<\/li>\n<li>Corpus-based approaches to health communication<\/li>\n<li>Corpus analysis in forensic linguistics<\/li>\n<li>Studying Shakespeare and his contemporaries with corpora<\/li>\n<li>Analysing online communication<\/li>\n<li>Statistics for corpus linguistics<\/li>\n<li>Analysing the British National Corpus 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sessions will be taught by the following speakers: Dr Raffaella Bottini, Prof Vaclav Brezina, Dr Isobelle Clarke,\u00a0 Prof Jonathan Culpeper, Dr Dana Gablasova, \u00a0Prof Claire Hardaker, Prof Veronika Koller, Prof Paul Rayson, and Prof Elena Semino. (Please note that there may be small changes to the programme of the summer school).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This summer school takes place under the aegis of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cass.lancs.ac.uk\/\">The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science<\/a>\u00a0(CASS), which is the recipient of The Queen&#8217;s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. CASS is investigating the use of language related to important social topics such as healthcare, climate change, poverty, hate crime, education and language learning. The summer school incorporates the affiliated AHRC Encyclopedia of Shakespeare\u2019s Language project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer school in Corpus linguistics for analysis of language, discourse and society\u00a0is aimed\u00a0at students and researchers from different disciplines\u00a0 (e.g. linguistics, sociology, political science, social anthropology, education, economics, gender studies, history etc) who are interested in analysing language data using quantitative (corpus) methods. 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