Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Mark McGlashan @markmcglashan.com Senior Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
University of Liverpool
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
🌐 www.MarkMcGlashan.com
Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social Corpus Linguist, Discourse Analyst, Victorianist, Climate Science & Climate Discourse, Host of the Life & Language podcast, President of the Dickens Society
https://michaelamahlberg.com/
Kat Gupta @mixosaurus.bsky.social linguistics, feminism, LGB, queer and trans issues 🏳️🌈🦜🏳️⚧️ lecturer in political communication at Royal Holloway University of London
they/them
Critical Discourse Studies @critdiscstuds.bsky.social Taylor&Francis journal. We publish critical research that advances our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures and social change.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcds20
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
Andrea Nini @andreanini.com Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester
John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
Website >>
https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home
ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
Robbie Love @robbielove.org Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Department of Communication and Culture
Associate Dean Education and Student Experience, School of Law and Social Sciences
Aston University
https://robbielove.org/
Patricia Palomino-Manjón (she/her) @patriciapalomino.bsky.social Ph.D., Assistant Professor in English Language at Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza). Interested in (critical) discourse analysis, (anti)feminism and (sexual) violence in social media.
Views my own.
https://patriciapalominomanjon.wordpress.com
Dr William Dance @williamdance.bsky.social Expert in disinformation, social media, and online safety | Senior BBC Policy Advisor @ DCMS | Previously: Senior Researcher at Lancaster University | Also run @fakebelieveblog.bsky.social. Contact: w.dance@fakebelieve.blog
Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University|UKRI Future Leader Fellow|Fulbright @ NAU|Associate Editor of IJCL|Co-Editor of Corpus & Discourse, Elements in CDS|FRSA
Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social 125 Anniversary Fellow & Associate Prof, University of Birmingham • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides
➡️ https://linktr.ee/niallrcurry
Em_Chiang @emchiang.bsky.social Research Fellow in forensic linguistics, casual gamer, reluctant runner. she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
@paul-at.bsky.social @paul-at.bsky.social
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xi’an JTU. All views are my own.
Matteo Di Cristofaro @matteodic.bsky.social Researcher in Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities @ UniMoRe. Corpus and Cognitive Linguist, Python & R user. Overall nerd (posts not representative of employers).
Website: https://infogrep.it
Online materials: https://catlism.github.io
Aimee Bailey @aimeebailey.bsky.social Discourse analyst at Uni of Birmingham • Language, gender and sexuality in (digital) media discourse
Sara Bartl @sbartl.bsky.social PhD student @ University of Birmingham
researching metaphor and cognitive semantics through computational models of language
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes @elviscoimbragomes.bsky.social PhD in Linguistics. English Teacher @unil.bsky.social. Research: language, gender & sexuality, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), health communication, corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, constructive grading practices
www.elviscoimbragomes.com
Sharon Glaas @slglaas.bsky.social PhD | Linguist | political and media discourse | language of persuasion and evaluation | mis- & disinformation | narratives & framing | #corpuslinguistics #forensiclinguistics | Uni of Birmingham, UK
John Williams, Linguist @lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Retired lexicographer and academic, most recently at the University of Portsmouth. Committed trade unionist. I mostly post about things I know about or am good at. If I stray into other areas, it's usually because there's a language angle.
David Griffin @linguistlawyer.com American lawyer and linguist interested in the nature of law, pseudolaw, and the semiotics of authority. He/him
Isobelle Clarke @issyclarke.bsky.social Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University | FRSA
Jai Mackenzie @jaimackenzie.bsky.social Senior research fellow at the University of Warwick. Researching language, gender and digital media. She/her, vegan, trans ally 🏳️⚧️
mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social Chair Professor of Media & Communications @uumediacomms.bsky.social Critical discourse research on normalisation of racism, discrimination, inequality & illiberal politics of exclusion. Editor in Chief @jlanpol.bsky.social www.languageandpolitics.com
Jesse Egbert @jesse-egbert.bsky.social Text linguistics, register variation, corpus linguistics, language and law
Hanna Schmück @hannaschmueck.bsky.social Computational Linguist
👩🏻💻🇩🇪| RA (Comp Ling) at the University of Augsburg
🦆🇬🇧| PhD/ MA (Linguistics) from Lancaster University
🌉🇩🇪| BA (English) from Bamberg University
🔗 |hannaschmueck.github.io
Tove Larsson @tovelarsson.bsky.social Corpus linguist, CL methodologist, and rock climber. Strong believer in the importance of healthy work-life balance. Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University.
Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
Emma McClaughlin @emmamcclaughlin.bsky.social She/her | Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics at Nottingham University | Health comms | Applied linguistics | Vegan for the animals 🌱 | All views are my own
Laurence Anthony @lanthony.bsky.social Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan. Interested in corpus linguistics, language data science, AI, educational technology, and the world at large.
Lily Zhou @lilyzhou.bsky.social Linguistics PhD candidate at Lancaster University🦆 | MSc, University of Edinburgh | Corpus Linguistics🌟
Fuelled by coffee/tea/milktea☕️🍵🧋| Always curious🧐
Dimitris Serafis @dimitrisrf.bsky.social Assistant Prof @rug.nl
https://www.rug.nl/staff/d.serafis/?lang=en
Editor @cadaad-journal.bsky.social
CDS | Argumentation | Multimodality
Researching #racism #hatespeech
#populism #authoritarianism #crises
@maxdemata.bsky.social @maxdemata.bsky.social
Poppy Plumb @poppyplumb.bsky.social
Marc Alexander @mga.is Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.
Esra Efeoğlu @esranureo.bsky.social Former Postdoc @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Co-founder & co-convener @discore.bsky.social
corpus-assisted discourse studies
youth language, metaphor, crisis discourses
🪄 https://linktr.ee/esranureo
Hale Isik-Guler @hale-isik-guler.bsky.social Associate Professor of Linguistics @METU; Research Lead @DISCORE, Discourse and Corpus Research Group (discore.metu.edu.tr)
Yasemin Erdogan @yaseminerdogan.bsky.social PhD @METU_ODTU / @DISCORE research group coordinator / sociolinguistics & critical discourse studies / language ideologies • multilingualism • social media • gender • migration / posts in English and Turkish
Miguel Pérez Milans @mpmilans.bsky.social Professor of Language, Discourse and Communication and Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics @University College London | Critical ethnographer
Paweł Szudarski @pawelszudarski.bsky.social Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Nottingham
Expertise: vocabulary, corpus linguistics, TESOL, replication research, distance learning, international education
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/pawel.szudarski
Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social corpus & applied linguistics, TESOL, discourse analysis, surveillance discourses
Coordinator MSc TESOL (Online) University of Stirling (@stirtesol.bsky.social)
Knitter
Personal account
Johnny Unger @johnnyunger.bsky.social he/him, linguist, critical discourse analyst, tea anarchist extraordinaire, dadcore, vegan, foodie, ❄️, dad, intersectional feminist, D&D nerd (not necessarily in that order)
Latest publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101825
Malgorzata Chalupnik @mchalu.bsky.social Linguist (discourse analysis/professional communication/language, gender and sexuality)
Dr Alexandra Krendel @alexiconartist.bsky.social Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton | CDA/CDS, corpus linguistics online discourse, (anti)feminism, hate speech
Dr Duygu Candarli @duygucandarli.bsky.social Lecturer in TESOL, University of Southampton | Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise and Impact Champion |
Research interests: second language writing, academic discourse, corpus linguistics, writing assessment | Views are my own. https://t.co/aq4PA7DWVe
Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Research: political communication, cognition, multimodality. Hobbies: hill/fell walking. Views my own.
I-LanD Research Centre @i-land.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre for advanced study in linguistics, social studies and humanities w/ a specific focus on the concepts of diversity and identity
🔗 https://i-land-researchcentre.eu/
@danagablas.bsky.social @danagablas.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University. Passionate about use of corpora for L2 learning, teaching & testing. Creator of CorpusForSchools.
Kate Barber @katebarber.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law @UniRDG_Law. Research interests: forensic linguistics, sexual violence/offences, online extremism and hate speech
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics @aifl.bsky.social Improving the delivery of justice through the analysis of language
Leigh Harrington @leighharrington.bsky.social Academic Skills Tutor at Nottingham Trent University. Applied linguist. Honorary Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Manchester. Honorary Member, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.
Katherine E. Russo @katherineeruss1.bsky.social Full Professor in English Linguistics, Critical Discourse studies, passionate supporter of difference, positive contamination, Freedom of movement and climate change. Director of the Interuniversity Research Centre Dis4change-researchcentre.eu
Helen Ringrow @helenringrow.bsky.social Associate Professor in Contemporary Discourse • Swiftie • Own views • She/her
Giorgia Riboni @giorgia-riboni.bsky.social Antifascist, antifascist, antifascist in no particular order.
Critical discourse analyst at the University of Turin. She/her
#CDA #SM-CDS #metaphor studies #corpus linguistics+
#identity construction #authenticity #parenthood #gender #medicalization
Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social Professor in #Linguistics #Usyd #CorpusLinguistics #MediaLinguistics #SocioLinguistics #DiscourseAnalysis #Stance #Affect #Emotion #DigitalHumanities
Founding director sydneycorpuslab.com
monikabednarek.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7819-5424
Akira Murakami @mrkm-a.bsky.social Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Communication at the University of Birmingham, as well as Director of the Centre for Corpus Research.
Website: http://www.akira-murakami.com/
Twitter (X): @mrkm_a
Stefania Spina @sspina.bsky.social Linguist. Italian native and learner corpora: https://lt.eurac.edu/cqpweb/
SLA. Discourse analysis.
Current research: Learner Dictionary of Italian Collocations, Discourse of newspapers' crime reports.
Blog: https://inparolepovere.substack.com/
Yuze Sha @shayuze.bsky.social Research Fellow @EdinburghUni | Corpus linguistics, public health communication, social media discourse, multimodality
Hege Larsson Aas @hegemoniet.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Inland Norway 📚💻 corpus linguistics, spoken corpora, fluency, learner language, learner English ☕️✨Linguist and (teacher) educator 🦚 she/her
http://hegela.com/
Guillaume Desagulier @gdlinguist.bsky.social Professor of English Linguistics at @ubmontaigne.bsky.social Research interests: cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, NLP, and sociolinguistics. Girl dad. Breton at heart.
https://corpling.hypotheses.org/
Sam Bennett @samtbennett.bsky.social Critical discourse analyst. Racism, colonialism, immigration.
Currently working on Zionism and Anti-Zionism in the UK (1910-2025)
Head of CADAAD network | 5-time NBA All-Star
Ever bought a fake picture, Toby?
DiscourseNet @discoursenet.bsky.social DiscourseNet offers an open, multilingual, inclusive and non-hierarchical space for anyone active in the field of Discourse Studies.
https://discourseanalysis.net/
Neus Alberich @neusalberich.bsky.social PhD researcher at the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics. Investigating normalisations of sexual violence against women online and misogynistic discourse • Committed to protecting animals • she/her
#ForensicLinguistics #LanguageAndLaw #manosphere
Jana Declercq @janadeclercq.bsky.social I like talking - doing it and analysing it
Associate Professor of Professional Communication @UniversiteitAntwerpen
Prof Claire Hardaker @drclaireh.bsky.social Forensic linguist | corpus linguist | @factor-lu.bsky.social director | @en-clair.bsky.social podcaster-at-large | supervillain
StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social I’m the master of my soul
PhD, Full Professor of English linguistics. UniBg. CDA, CL, ESP (tourism & medical discourses), discourse analysis· #RestInPower • she/her
Dr Amanda Potts @amandapotts.bsky.social Reader/Associate Professor, corpus-based discourse analyst, cat caretaker, citizen of the world. Opinions mine; my precious. 🌱 she/her
JCaDs @jcads.bsky.social Journal of Corpora & Discourse Studies by Cardiff University Press
Peer-reviewed, open-access, committed to open & replicable science https://jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/
Dario Del Fante @fabrichunter.bsky.social #PhD in Linguistics. Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Ferrara (Italy). Interested in what is weird and out of context. Founder of TiQ Festival.
Federico Zaupa @federicozaupa.bsky.social Dr Ph.D. and Research grant holder in corpus-assisted discourse studies at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
He/Him
My own views.
Beth Malory @bethmalory.bsky.social Lecturer in English Linguistics at UCL. Researcher of reproductive health communication @uclenglishusage.bsky.social.
Daniel Pascual @daniel-pascual.bsky.social English Lecturer. Member of the research group #InterGedi at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
Interested in digital communication, pragmatics of all kinds, discourse analysis and multimodality.
Views in English & Spanish
Alexander Kilpatrick @alexkilpatrick.bsky.social I do cool stuff with maths and language.
https://alexanderkilpatrick.github.io/
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3134-3797
Associate Professor
University of Aizu
UCREL NLP Research Centre @ucrelnlp.bsky.social Research centre for the study of corpus linguistics and corpus-based natural language processing at Lancaster University
T: +44 1524 510357
E: ucrel@lancaster.ac.uk
W: https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/
Y: https://www.youtube.com/@ucrelcrs8222
Mathew Gillings @mathewgillings.bsky.social Assistant Professor at WU Vienna. Research interests: corpus-assisted methods, business discourse, deception and (im)politeness.🗣️💻
Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social Towards an innovative, systematic approach to concordance analysis.
Project team: @michamahlberg.bsky.social @schtepf.bsky.social @nfdykes.bsky.social @apiperski.bsky.social
Nadia Makouar @nmakouar.bsky.social MCF - Ass prof in legal linguistics - université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3
Corpora journal @corpora.bsky.social
LIP Research Group @liprg.bsky.social Language, Ideology and Power Research Group, based at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social, Lancaster University. We hold regular CDS research talks during term time.
Corpus in Focus @focuscorpus.bsky.social 🔍 Corpus in Focus: Exploring the world of Corpus Linguistics! Unlocking insights into language patterns, empowering research & enriching public knowledge. @FocusCorpus
Rachelle Vessey 🇨🇦 @rachellevessey.bsky.social linguistics, corpus/discourse analysis, canadiana, media studies, language, politics, academia, education, language ideologies, language and gender, military discourse, French, English (& other things)
https://carleton.ca/slals/cu-people/vessey-rachelle/
Erika Darics @linguadigitalis.bsky.social Learn ∘ Unlearn ∘ Relearn
I am an advocate of transformative education. I think about language, leadership, human and systemic change - a lot. I work with lovely people @ Words&Actions, in the CLADES project @the University of Groningen and with the #IDGs.
Evelin Nikolova @evelinnikolova.bsky.social Critical discourse analyst | Researching language, gender and sexuality, digital communication, sexual harassment and sex work
•Teaching fellow at the University of Salford
• Summer program coordinator at Lancaster University
🌈❤️
Sally Hunt @sallyhuntsa.bsky.social Linguist. Discourse analysis. Corpus linguistics. Gender. Children's literature. Rhodes University. Reading University. Open University. Rhodes University (again!). Gardener and creator of unfinished craft projects.
Alice Deignan @alicedeignan.bsky.social Corpora, metaphor, young people's language, the language of school
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
CADAAD Journal @cadaad-journal.bsky.social The official journal of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) network. https://linktr.ee/cadaad_journal
Stavros Assimakopoulos @stavrosling.bsky.social Associate Professor of Linguistics @L'Università ta' Malta, Special Issues co-editor of the Journal of Pragmatics and co-editor of the CADAAD Journal.
Franco Zappettini @francozappettini.bsky.social Associate Professor of English
Faculty of Political Sciences Communication and Sociology
La Sapienza University, Rome Italy
Vaclav Brezina @vaclavbrezina.bsky.social Professor in Corpus linguistics, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science.
Lizzy Hanks @hankslizzy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of South Florida
corpus linguistics | conversation | pragmatics | vocabulary
Roxanne H. Padley, PhD @roxanne-padley.bsky.social Tenure Track Assistant Professor in English Language, Translation and Linguistics at Pegaso Digital University.
Interest in ESP, Corpus Linguistics, Healthcare Communication and English Language Teaching with New Technologies.
Dawn Knight @dawnknightcl.bsky.social Professor of Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University. Part time fitness (hockey) freak, full time Corpus geek
Collaborator on @corcencc.bsky.social @freetxt.bsky.social @gdc-wdg.bsky.social
CASS @corpussocialsci.bsky.social ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science. Based at Lancaster University.
Sketch Engine @sketchengine.eu Sketch Engine is a linguistic search engine and corpus query system with text analysis tools and corpora in 100+ languages. Concordance, n-grams, term extraction, co-occurrences (Word Sketch) are only some of its features.