In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…
Labelling people with disability in Australian newspapers
The Sydney Corpus Lab has recently entered into an informal collaboration with Language on the Move, with mutual support and sharing of information and resources. Language on the Move is a research website “devoted to multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration” which “aims to disseminate sociolinguistic research to…
Interview with Mark Nartey
In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…
Interview with Tim Grant & Lucia Busso
In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…
Promoting corpus linguistics and text analytics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Written by Kelvin Lee To help promote corpus linguistics and text analytics in the Arts and Social Sciences, the Sydney Corpus Lab recently participated in the HASS RDC and IRC Computational Skills Summer School organised by the Australian Research Data Commons (February 2023) and in the University of Sydney’s Digital Humanities Day jointly hosted by…
Interview with Pascual Pérez-Paredes
In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…
Triangulating computational and corpus linguistic methods to investigate climate discourse on Twitter
Written by Darcy McCarthy The first few years of the 2020s have accelerated climate change issues to the core of Australian discourse. Since the 2019-20 bushfires, climate change and its impacts have become fixtures in the nation’s headspace. However, linguistic research on the topic has not matched the pace of climate change’s growing importance to…
Interview with Elena Semino
In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…
Interview with Paul Baker
In 2023, the Sydney Corpus Lab is pleased to be featuring edited extracts from Dr Robbie Love’s CorpusCast podcast about corpus linguistics. In each blog post published throughout the year, we present the answers of leading corpus linguists to three questions. Specifically, all blog posts present answers to the following two questions: Posts from episodes…
2022: The Year in Review for the Sydney Corpus Lab
written by Monika Bednarek As 2022 is drawing to an end, here’s the year in review from the Sydney Corpus Lab. This year, we were able to start a number of new informal collaborations with corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic centres and labs in Australia and overseas, including the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Corpus Research,…