CorpusnScotland

Corpus Linguistics in Scotland (CLiS) Network

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

Many thanks to @AndresKarjus for so kindly organizing and delivering this hands-on workshop on data visualization in R! 👍🏻

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

Finished teaching an afternoon #Rstats #dataviz 📊📈 workshop for corpus linguists from CLiS @CorpusnScotland. Thanks for being such an engaged audience, and thanks to @SchoolofPPLS for providing the room & also coffee (that helped a lot!). All materials: https://t.co/8SJ3OXfKG4

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

We didn't even have a chance to publicize it on Twitter. CLiS members were fast enough to book all places in this 12 April workshop. We're now operating with a waiting list.

[Andres Karjus | also on 🟦bsky @AndresKarjus]

I'm doing a short introductory #Rstats #dataviz workshop for CLiS @CorpusnScotland in April. Announcement went out last night; was excited to see that by lunchtime today it was already fully booked. Seems more n more linguists want to learn how to make them sweet sweet plots in R

[Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦 @KingstoneHelen]

Thanks @CorpusnScotland and specifically Laura Carioca for a very interesting day!

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

Many thanks to @DrLauraACariola for organizing such a fruitful #CLiS2018 meeting! It's great to see so much interest in corpus linguistics from colleagues working in a variety of disciplines.

[Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦 @KingstoneHelen]

#CLiS2018 final talk comes from Natalie Finlayson @natalie_eloise, identifying what vocabulary language-learning students best need to learn - here's the value of treating your course feedback as a corpus!

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

The last presentation at today's #CLiS2018 meeting is by Natalie Finlayson from Glasgow. She's looking at the application of corpus linguistics to second language vocabulary teaching and instructional assessment.

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Elaine Newton-Buzza, a PhD student at Edinburgh, is telling us about her study of a tango lyrics corpus. She looking at how language is used to construct gender in these lyrics. #CLiS2018

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Our corpus explorations into Arts & Humanities turn to literature now with Imane Bouchakour's research on the socially disabled in Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury". #CLiS2018

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Joanna Pearce shows the trends in the use of 'gay', 'gays' and 'homosexual*' in the UK press. #CLiS2018

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Time to look at language change in relation to how LGBT+ people are referred in UK newspapers 1985-2018 by Joanna Pearce from Glasgow. #CLiS2018

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We're moving from history to the media now. Dr Laura Cariola from Edinburgh is presenting her work on borderline personality disorder in the UK press. #CLiS2018

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Dr Kingstonre looks at how words related to recency (e.g. "modern", "for the first time") are used in the dictionary. #CLiS2018

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Dr Helen Kingstone from Glasgow is starting her presentation on the representation of recent lives in the Dictionary of National Biography. #CLiS2018

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Dr Benjamin Molineaux is starting the afternoon sessions at today's #CLiS2018 meeting. He is introducing us to this project on a corpus of historical Mapudungun.

[Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦 @KingstoneHelen]

#clis2018 from Andrea Flavia, now examining the language of #JaneAusten's Emma: turns out the most frequent word in that novel is "very"! @JaneAustenHouse @JaneAustenBath

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

Here's a description of Linguistic-mode does. #CLiS2018

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The next speaker is Andrea Favia from Tilburg. He is talking about Linguistic-mode, which can be used in open-source Emacs. #CLiS2018

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You can find the slides from Andres's presentation (as well as other materials) at https://t.co/NxHKvsrDP6 . #CLiS2018

[CorpusnScotland @CorpusnScotland]

More about Andres's fascinating presentation at #CLiS2018 today.

[Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦 @KingstoneHelen]

#CLiS2018 @EysteinThanisch on corpus of medieval Scottish Gaelic - literary Gaelic at this time was intentionally unified across Scotland & Ireland, so its tricky to separate out the Scottish ones... @bordnagaidhlig