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Department of Linguistics and English Language @LancasterUni. 3rd in the world for Linguistics (QS 2025) // find us elsewhere @lancslinguistics

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Joined June 2009
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We are delighted to have been ranked 3rd in the world for Linguistics by the QS World Subject Rankings 2025! 🔗 topuniversities.com/universi… 🔗 lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast…
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We're now listening to Prof. Jonathan Culpeper’s fascinating presentation, "Variational (Im)Politeness in England: Some Corpus-Based Explorations." @j_culpeper
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Another excellent presentation with Prof @_chris_hart talking about "Metaphor, multimodality and AI: Synthetic images prompted by figurative expressions in antiimmigration discourse"
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This afternoon, we had another three engaging presentations. Here is an engaging talk with Prof. @JuliaGillen talking about "An exploratory posthuman approach to the study of “writing systems”.
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Now Prof Alison Mackey is sharing an inspiring presentation, "Failure and Resilience in Research," reflecting on the realities of the research journey and the importance of embracing setbacks as part of academic growth. #researchcolloquiumLAEL
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After the coffee break, Prof. @DrClaireH and Dr. @GeorgeBrownLing delivered a fascinating talk about their work, "Bot or Not: Making False Profits," exploring the challenges of identifying and understanding online deception.
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Before the coffee break, Prof. Jason Rothman and Dr. Federico Gallo explored "The Dynamic Nature and Importance of Bi-/Multilingual Experience as a Contributor to Cognitive and Brain Reserves for Healthier Aging,"
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Today is our 2026 LAEL Research Colloquium Day! The event began with a warm welcome from our Discipline Head, Prof. Luke Harding @harding_luke
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📈Would you like to develop your skills in 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 and apply them in different areas? Join our online PG programmes in #corpuslinguistics and study at @LAEL_LU - one of the best Linguistics departments in the world! lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
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For those of you who have been patiently waiting for the sixth episode of Slowburn Shakespeare from @_enclair, you may or may not be thrilled to know that it has finally arrived... Find S02E08: Slowburn Shakespeare (6/6) wherever you get your podcasts.
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The @timeshighered Digital Universities UK event is only three days away. Not only is it happening at @LancasterUni, some of our linguistics research will be part of the cutting-edge Fringe exhibition event on Wednesday evening. 🤩 Find out more here: timeshighered-events.com/dig…

Digital Universities UK 2025

Join us on 1-3 April 2025 at Lancaster University for Digital Universities UK to explore the latest challenges and opportunities of digital-first higher education.

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Language, Speech, and AI: FACTOR Summer School 2025 📅 28-30 July 2025 📍 Lancaster University, UK 💼 Theme: Fraud & the (Mis)use of AI Countless frauds and scams are being perpetrated all around us right now, and AI has made it easier than ever.
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Whether you're an industry professional, a teacher looking to inspire English language students, or simply fascinated by language and crime, this could be the summer school for you. ✅ Gentle pace for absolute beginners ✅ Interactive, hands-on ✅ Taught by world-leading experts
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🎟️ Tickets: £30 each (includes sessions, materials, refreshments, and a packed lunch). Note: spaces are limited, and demand for our summer schools is always high 👉 Read more and book your tickets here: lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/… Let's better prepare us all for the future of fraud.
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Today! 1500, in Bowland North SR10.
Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni@LAEL_LU20 Feb 2025
🗣️ It's the last @_FACTOR_LU talk of the academic year! Join us for Dr. Tharindu Ranasinghe's discussion of the challenges of offensive language detection in political discourse, including how human and machine moderators often disagree on what's considered offensive.
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🗣️ It's the last @_FACTOR_LU talk of the academic year! Join us for Dr. Tharindu Ranasinghe's discussion of the challenges of offensive language detection in political discourse, including how human and machine moderators often disagree on what's considered offensive.
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🧠 Dr. Ranasinghe will explore the complexities of content moderation, presenting his vision for improving subjective natural language processing tasks. See you there! 🗓️ 1500-1550, Thu 06 Mar 📍 Bowland North SR10 🔗 wp.lancs.ac.uk/factor/2025/0…

Ranasinghe – Offensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the correct way?

FACTOR is pleased to announce our final talk of the 2024-2025 academic year by Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe (Computing, SPS): TITLE Offensive or Not? Are we doing offensive language detection in the corr…

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How reliable is Multidimensional Analysis (MDA) in studying textual variation? For our next @_FACTOR_LU talk, Ellen Roberts (LAEL) explores its challenges, including replication issues in register analysis and authorship studies.
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Through her PhD research, Ellen investigates factor analysis pitfalls, like jingle/jangle fallacies, and the need for transparency across statistical software in social sciences and forensic linguistics. en.wikipedia.org/Jingle-jang…
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This should be especially interesting to corpus linguists, @ucrelcrs, @CorpusSocialSci et al. We'd love to see you there! 📅 1500-1550, Thu 13th Feb 2025 📍 Welcome Centre LT1 (A34) 🔗 lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/…
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