SLaLS at Corpus Linguistics 2025

The School of Linguistics and Language Studies was well-represented at the Corpus Linguistics conference (CL2025) in Birmingham, UK.

As one of five CL2025 Student Grant winners, PhD student Andrea Banicki received a full waiver of the conference registration fee, free accommodation at Birmingham City University, and a ticket to the conference dinner. Her poster presentation was titled “Influencing the Court: Amicus briefs, abortion rights, and conceptual metaphor analysis.”

Professors Rachelle Vessey and Mike Murphy also attended the international conference. Murphy delivered a poster presentation titled “Home on the Range with genAI: A corpus-assisted analysis of frontier and foundation metaphors in the discursive conceptualization of Large Language Models” and Vessey gave two talks titled “Language ideologies and language practices: A corpus assisted discourse studies approach to the (re)negotiation of multilingualism policy at the United Nations” and “Examining multilingualism and intercultural dialogue via monolingual data.”