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  • Will Housing Crisis Kill the Irish Art Scene?

    How is Ireland’s housing crisis shaping Irish art today? Sarah Churchill asks contemporary Irish artists Aideen Barry and Spicebag for their thoughts.

    July 31, 2025
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Using digital technology to uncover ‘invisible’ patterns in language and society

By Adnan Ajšić If you have seen the 1999 movie The Matrix, you will remember the green code tumbling down the black screen like digital rain from the title scene.  Later in the movie, Tank, one of the characters, ‘reads’…

  • Teri Williams
  • June 25, 2021

How do women and men swear on Twitter, and why does it matter?

By Michael Gauthier For decades now, sociolinguistic studies have showed that social parameters have an influence on the way we express ourselves, and gender is no exception. Swearwords have been shown to be one of these parameters, and it is…

  • Teri Williams
  • April 19, 2021

A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation

by  Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known for their simplicity, being frequently characterized by a repeated use of either a striking phrase that dominates their speech (such…

  • Rebecca Wojturska
  • November 23, 2018

American television and off-screen registers: a corpus-based comparison

In this post, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto detail their corpus based research on American television and off-screen registers for an article appearing in Corpora. Read the full article including details of the methodology and results here. What…

  • Teri Williams
  • August 17, 2017

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