English at B&FC

BA English Literature, Language and Writing Degree and Access to HE (humanities - English and Creative Writing)

[Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social @elenasemino]

A new version of the written British National Corpus! Such a monumental enterprise by @vaclavbrezina et al, and so many new opportunities for research!

Do join us on 19th November for the launch from Lancaster Castle:

[Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social @elenasemino]

'Talking health online: Why it matters and what linguistics can contribute' - @IC4CH webinar hosted by @CorpusSocialSci, with @TonyMcEnery @DrTara_CP @GavinBrookes26, Joanna Zakzrewska, May O. Lwin & me.

21 October, 12.00-1.30pm BST (GMT+1)

To register: https://t.co/8RlN5HEGQ6

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Great thread for anyone interested in dialect change

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you may have seen reports in the UK media yesterday about "northern dialects dying out within 45 years" - this was a rather sensationalised take on a paper coauthored by one of the tweetolectology team. i thought i'd describe what we did and what we found a bit more precisely! 1/

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