- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Topic Modeling
- Philippine History and Culture
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Media Studies and Communication
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Linguistics and Education Research
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis
- Science and Science Education
- Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
Lancaster University
2015-2023
Abstract This article examines the discourses around climate change in UK press from 2003 to 2019. Our main goal is investigate how media discourse developed during a period of significant world events, whilst also exploring public’s perception problem. We combine novel technique Usage Fluctuation Analysis (UFA, McEnery et al. 2019) with corpus-assisted analysis track fluctuation usage phrases and global warming over this 17-year period. Thus, addition offering methodological contribution by...
Given the crucial role of mass media in influencing public discourse, this study examines discourses around climate change within Brazilian press, covering time period 2003–2013. Survey evidence has shown that Brazilians’ degree concern about is higher than almost anywhere else, with nine out 10 Brazilians considering a serious problem. The primary purpose to investigate how press engendered striking level concern, special attention discourse developed over time. To end, I undertake...
Scott Piao, Francesca Bianchi, Carmen Dayrell, Angela D’Egidio, Paul Rayson. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference North American Chapter Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2015.
This article examines the centrality of Brazil within future climate policy and politics. The state carbon sink Amazon rainforest has long been an iconic marker condition Earth. innovative in developing many non-carbon forms energy generation use it played a major role international debates on global warming since Rio Earth Summit 1992. We examine various ways which change come to be centrally important Brazilian public opinion. Survey evidence shows that Brazilians are most concerned about...
This paper explores the interaction between corpus linguistics and social sciences. We will use a type of scientific data broadly oriented to questions in humanities investigate extent ways which methods contribute research field Religious Studies, sciences at large. The consists 73 interviews (357,788 words) with immigrant communities living UK, from various religious (Muslims, Hindus Christians), ethnical cultural backgrounds. These were conducted 2005 as part government-commissioned study...
This paper combines evidence from the analyses of large sets newspaper material and long-term rainfall records to gain insights into representations drought events in United Kingdom, between 1800 2014. More specifically, we bring together two different, though complementary, approaches trace longitudinal patterns ways have been measured perceived, focusing specifically on duration, spatial extent, intensity each event. The power combined approach is demonstrated through three case studies...
The primary objective of this paper is to propose a corpus-based research methodology for comparing quantitative aspects collocational patterning in translated and non-translated texts the same language. main issue under investigation whether patterns tend be less diverse (i.e. reduced range) than texts. A pilot study carried out with view examining overall number collocates distribution collocations relation given node subcorpora. data drawn from comparable corpus Brazilian Portuguese which...