From the perspective of pragmatics, coaching can be understood as a communication-based, co-constructed discourse genre in which coach and client jointly build meanings, goals, and courses of action turn by turn (see Fleischhacker & Graf 2023). Rather than merely transmitting information, coaching works through persuasion: it relies on speech acts such as advising, evaluating, goal-setting, while also managing uptake and creating an expert identity for the coach (see Weinzinger 2016, Dayter & Rü

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing

Introducing nine new 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs - outstanding academics who bring expertise in key areas.

Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Trust, Discourse, and Corporate Corruption

Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and surveillance studies, this book focuses on how surveillance is define…

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My R package for forensic authorship analysis, 'idiolect', now has an associated paper published in the Journal of Open Source Software. You can read it here (and use it to cite the package): The paper has been released with the new version of idiolect, 1.2.0.

This year’s annual BAAL Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG event is focussed on the connection between the notion of affect and the field of language

At this event, we will be launching two books by colleagues in linguistics by Piotr Jagodziński, and by Samuel Bourgeois & Derek Bousfield

Join us for a seminar with Michaela Mahlberg (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany & University of Birmingham, UK)

This book delves into how migration is depicted through multilingual discourses, blending corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Emerging ...

Abstract Garnering public engagement with academic research in a timely and accessible manner has become a central concern in contemporary academia. This centrality has given rise to a growing interes...

This study investigates how multimodal irony is discursively constructed in the expression of stance and evaluation in comments responding to the UK N…

My latest paper with Hugo Bowles and Claire Wood examines a Dickens mystery: did he author the recently decoded story “The Two Brothers”? The answer is complicated. The paper showcases our new method, LambdaG (forthcoming!). The paper can be found here or the free accepted version is here.