Category: Publications

Love, Robbie, Erika Darics, and Rudi Palmieri. Abstract Communication has played a critical role during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and communicators have had a particularly difficult task in persuading different types of audience to comply with ever-changing regulations. Local government organisations play a crucial role in recontextualising the national messaging for a local audience and encouraging the […]

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By Mathew Gillings, Gerlinde Mautner and Paul Baker Cambridge University Press, 2023 Series: Elements in Corpus Linguistics DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168144[Opens in a new window] Online ISBN: 9781009168144 Summary The breadth and spread of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) indicate its usefulness for exploring language use within a social context. However, its theoretical foundations, limitations, and epistemological implications must be considered so that we can adjust […]

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    Interviewed by Dr Marta Arnaldi at the University of Oxford on 27 September 2022, Mona Baker and Eivind Engebretsen talk about their latest book, published by Cambridge University Press in the same month: Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices.   The discussion touches on the concept of evidence, including its […]

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  Authors: Robert Poole, Nicholas Hayes Abstract: This diachronic corpus-based analysis investigates the use of epistemic stance devices in reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)from the date of its first report on the physical science of climate change in 1990 to its sixth contribution in 2021. Applying the framework of stance (Biber & Finegan, 1989), […]

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Ana Delicado and Jussara Rowland Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal   Frontiers in Communication, 07 May 2021 Section: Science and Environmental Communication https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.645725   This article aims to contribute to the understanding of the social dimensions of the 2020 pandemic, with a particular emphasis on the visual practices of science communication in times of health emergency, […]

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Ruselle Meade (United Kingdom) Teach311 + COVID-19 Collective, 21 May 2020   As a crisis that inevitably mixes politics with science, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of scientists. Political leaders the world over are keen to stress that their responses to the pandemic are “driven by science.” It was warnings from the government’s panel of scientific experts, argued […]

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