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  • ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors

    Nilay Kılınç and Russell King discuss the making of their book on second-generation Turkish-German return migration

    August 21, 2025
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A common language and shared understanding of family violence? Corpus approaches in support of system responses to family violence

by Tonya N. Stebbins and Cara Penry Williams In an age where women are increasingly active in the workforce and have historically high rates of engagement with education, the lack of safety many experience in their own homes is profoundly…

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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
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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…

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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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