Dr Jane Demmen

Senior Research Associate in ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences

Profile

I am part of a team applying corpus linguistic methods to investigate language used in health(care) contexts. My focus at present is on understanding more about how people talk about pain. My other main research interest is in Early Modern English plays.

I have previously worked on corpus linguistic research projects investigating the language of Shakespeare’s plays (The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language; AHRC project AH/N002415/1), the semantics of labour relations in Hansard UK House of Commons debates (Semantic Annotation and Mark-Up for Enhancing Lexical Searches; AHRC/ESRC project AH/L010062/1), and the ways people experiencing or involved in end-of-life care use metaphors (Metaphor in End of Life Care; ESRC Project ES/J007927/1).

Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language
01/05/2016 → 31/10/2019
Research

Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Symposium
Oral presentation

Computational Methods for Literary-Historical Textual Scholarship
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

British Shakespeare Association Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Digital Humanities Research Forum
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and Other Digital Methods
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL19)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Political Discourse: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Investigating the lexis of labour relations in UK House of commons debates over time: a study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging
Invited talk

Stylistics Research Centre 10th Anniversary Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Linguistics Research Seminar
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Language, Literature and History: Digital Approaches
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Metaphor in End of Life Care project event
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

The ‘Metaphor in End-of-Life Care’ project - data, questions and methods
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

35th ICAME Conference: 'Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture'
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Metaphor in End of Life Care Project
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Using computer tools to investigate the language of characters in Shakespeare’s plays
Invited talk

Using Corpus Methods to Analyse Metaphor in Discourse
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Corpus Linguistics 2013
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

UCREL Corpus Research Seminar
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Presentation given at English Department Research Group
Invited talk

Early Modern English Textual Analysis Symposium
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

16th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16)
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Guest lecture given at the Department of English
Invited talk