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Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson (2021)
Report
McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., …Lang, A. (2021). Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson. Nottingham: UKRI/AHRC

This study analyses the language of speeches about COVID-19 delivered by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 3rd March 2020 and 5th April 2021. We use transcribed speeches to construct a digitised body of texts called a... Read More about Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson.

Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus (2020)
Journal Article
Adolphs, S., Knight, D., Smith, C., & Price, D. (2020). Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus. Corpora, 15(2), 141-168. https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2020.0192

Corpora have revolutionised the way we describe and analyse language in use. The sheer scale of collections of texts, along with the appropriate software for structuring and analysing this data, has led to a fuller understanding of the characteristic... Read More about Crowdsourcing Formulaic Phrases: towards a new type of spoken corpus.

Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Koene, A., Adolphs, S., Perez, E., Carter, C. J., Statache, R., O'Malley, C., …McAuley, D. (2015). Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources. In Corpus Linguistics 2015: abstract book (204-206)

With the rising popularity of public and semi-public communication channels such as Blogs (late 1990s), Wikipedia (launched in 2001), Facebook (launched in 2004), Reddit (from 2005) and Twitter (from 2006), the Internet has become an increasingly fer... Read More about Ethics considerations for Corpus Linguistic studies using internet resources.

Using online news comments to gather fast feedback on issues with public health messaging: The Guardian as a case study
Report
McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., …Lang, A. (2021). Using online news comments to gather fast feedback on issues with public health messaging: The Guardian as a case study. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), grant reference AH/V015125/1

This study uses corpus linguistics to analyse opinions on messaging and public health measures from one resource—comments posted in response to articles containing references to borders from The Guardian online. Overall, commenters made international... Read More about Using online news comments to gather fast feedback on issues with public health messaging: The Guardian as a case study.

Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online
Report
McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., …Lang, A. (2022). Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online. University of Nottingham: AHRC/UKRI

The Coronavirus Discourses project supports public health partners Public Health Wales, Public Health England, and NHS Education for Scotland in addressing key challenges that the coronavirus pandemic presents in terms of understanding the flow and i... Read More about Privacy Preserving Corpus Linguistics: Investigating the Trajectories of Public Health Messaging Online.