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AAC’s blog articles help keep all corpus linguists up to date with the latest news and developments within the field of Corpus Linguistics.
Our blog articles will include features on the latest books and prominent academics, as well as introducing our audience to some of the ‘rising stars’ in Corpus Linguistics.
Bilal Kadiri – My first abstract submission to an International Conference
Written by Bilal Kadiri, King Khalid University This article discusses my first ever experience of submitting an abstract for an International Conference. The abstract I submitted was entitled ‘Negotiation of Hybrid Identities in a BBC Sitcom: Muslim, British and...
Centre for Corpus Research (CCR), University of Birmingham
This is a special blog post, extending our thanks to the Centre for Corpus Research (CCR), located in the University of Birmingham for their valuable contribution to the All About Corpora (AAC) website. In particular, we would like to express our gratitude to...
SOCC: A corpus of online news comments
Written by Maite Taboada, Simon Fraser University The SFU Opinion and Comments Corpus (SOCC) is a corpus for the analysis of online news comments. Our corpus contains comments and the articles from which the comments originated. The articles are all opinion articles,...
Researcher Profiles page – Are British based academics given preference?
I wanted to write this brief clarification in relation the Researcher Profiles page, as I have had a few queries in relation to the layout and content of the page. In relation to the layout, a consistent question I have faced is: ‘Why is a differentiation made between...
American and British English: Divided by a Common Language?
Written by Bilal Kadiri, King Khalid University The ‘Featured Book’ blog articles will be released at least once a month and will focus on not only recently published books, but also those which have made a key contribution within the field of Corpus Linguistics. The...
Monika Bednarek’s Report from the 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC2017)
Written by Monika Bednarek, Department of Linguistics, The University of Sydney Late last year I participated in the 6th New Zealand Discourse Conference, held in Auckland from 6-9 December 2017 (http://www.nzdc2017.co.nz/). The conference hosts included the Auckland...