Author Jonathan Culpeper Chair professor in English Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word “bastard” – why apply a term of personal abuse to a flower? But in Shakespeare’s time, “bastard” was a technical term describing certain plants. Similarly, associating the word “bad” with success and talking of a […]
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Erasmus+ 2023 Concepts such as sustainability and democracy combine general agreement on the abstract notion that they represent with endless disagreement about what they mean in practice. And yet, there is little reflection in current educational programmes about the reasons and implications of such disagreement. Sustainability and similar concepts are regarded as one size fits all, allowing the implementation process to be […]
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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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The Lancet, Comment, 2023 Authored by: Eivind Engebretsen, Ritika Sharma, Tony J Sandset, Kristin Heggen, Ole Petter Ottersen, Helen Clark, Trisha Greenhalgh This article argues for a more critical, transformative and philosophically-underpinned approach to teaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The standard approach presents the SDGs as uncontested and universally agreed-upon targets, which oversimplifies their complexity and inherent contradictions and […]
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Data-driven Critical Conceptual Analysis – What does sustainability mean in the context of public health? – Do concepts such as sustainability, empowerment, partnership and equality reflect an urge for global solidarity or rather a requirement for self-management and improvement? In the Circle U. course Politics of Sustainability in Public Health – data-driven critical conceptual analysis, we invite students […]
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“Icon” is a visual history of the fetus which explores how we have come to think of the fetus as ourselves unborn. This animated documentary takes us through 500 years of culture, science and body politics-and the power of images. Icon was created in cooperation with the research project Medicine at the Borders of Life at the Department of History […]
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This project, funded by UiO:Democracy, explores how medical knowledge is mobilized in debates about abortion through corpus-based analysis At the heart of the controversy over abortion rights are disagreements about key democratic concepts such as rights, autonomy, privacy and freedom, making the right to abortion one of the most contested in the world. MEDRA explores […]
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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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