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Chair of English Linguistics

BICLCE 2019

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. English and American Studies
  6. Chair of English Linguistics
  7. Conferences
  8. BICLCE 2019
  9. Plenary Speakers
  10. Tony McEnery

Thursday, 26th September, 9.30-10.30

Tony McEnery

Tony McEnery is Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is the author of many books and papers on corpus linguistics, including Corpus Linguistics: Method, Theory and Practice (with Andrew Hardie, CUP, 2011). He was founding Director of the ESRC Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) Centre, which was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for its work on corpus linguistics in 2015.

The UK, Europe and the path to Brexit - the long view: Europe in two centuries of British newspapers.

When the UK voted to exit the European Union in 2016 many tried to understand the event. Opinion polls, the analysis of voting patterns, studies of the press in the run up to the vote, the role of social media and machine learning all came to prominence as people and organizations tried to understand what was an unexpected outcome for many.

In the research presented in this paper, undertaken with Helen Baker and Vaclav Brezina, we approached this question with a different mindset. Much of the work we have done in the past has been focused on exploring the development of attitudes and ideas, as reflected in language, over long stretches of time. We believe that in taking this approach we can start to understand long term tre