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Elena Semino

@elenasemino

Professor @LAEL_LU; Director @CorpusSocialSci; Metaphor, health communication | corpora | cancer, pain, psychosis, Covid, vaccines. Same handle on Blue Sky.

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📣 Read the new Paper - Judith Rietjens, Sheila Payne, Elena Semino and Yufeng LIU (Kiki)劉雨鳳 did a scoping review to understand better what metaphors are used by different populations for different aspects of the cancer experience🎗️ spcare.bmj.com/content/bmjspc…

📣 Read the new #4DPicture Paper - @JudithRietjens, @SheilaPayne1, @elenasemino and @_KikiLiu did a scoping review to understand better what metaphors are used by different populations for different aspects of the cancer experience🎗️ spcare.bmj.com/content/bmjspc…
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Vaclav Brezina(@vaclavbrezina) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you have missed Lancaster Talks on Language with Elena Semino, Dana Gablasova and myself yesterday, you can watch the recording from:

🟥estream.lancaster.ac.uk/View.aspx?id=7…

If you have missed Lancaster Talks on Language with @elenasemino, @danagablas and myself yesterday, you can watch the recording from: 🟥estream.lancaster.ac.uk/View.aspx?id=7…
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'Cancer experience in metaphors: patients, carers, professionals, students – a scoping review' spcare.bmj.com/content/early/…

New open access paper in BMJ SPCare with Yufeng LIU (Kiki)劉雨鳳 Sheila Payne Judith Rietjens as part of the 4D Picture project 4dpicture.eu

'Cancer experience in metaphors: patients, carers, professionals, students – a scoping review' spcare.bmj.com/content/early/… New open access paper in @BMJ_SPCare with @_KikiLiu @SheilaPayne1 @JudithRietjens as part of the @4dPicture project 4dpicture.eu
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Elena Semino(@elenasemino) 's Twitter Profile Photo

‘Everything is a journey now’ - Several linguists, including myself, contributed to this New York Times article on the rise of ‘journey’ as a metaphor. nytimes.com/2024/05/13/wel…

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Elena Semino(@elenasemino) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today I took Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project to the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio, for a symposium on Corpus Approaches to Grammar and Discourse. And another stunning campus.

Today I took @vaccine_project to the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio, for a symposium on Corpus Approaches to Grammar and Discourse. And another stunning campus.
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Thank you to colleagues and students at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói for a great discussion yesterday of my work on metaphor and illness, and for showing me what Rio de Janeiro looks like from the back of their campus.

Thank you to colleagues and students at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói for a great discussion yesterday of my work on metaphor and illness, and for showing me what Rio de Janeiro looks like from the back of their campus.
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This evening at the Storey Institute in Lancaster, double-act by Rachel Isba Rachel Isba and myself on the last day of World Immunisation Week - part of RSChem Lancashire Public Lecture series: 'Vaccination is a huge global health success, so why do people hesitate?' eventbrite.co.uk/e/profs-isba-s…

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I’ve given this talk on failure in academia several times, but never in Lancaster. Packed room of our students and colleagues for this today.

I’ve given this talk on failure in academia several times, but never in Lancaster. Packed room of our students and colleagues for this today.
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Elena Semino(@elenasemino) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Findings from Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project will be presented at 2 public lectures during World Immunisation week: in Lancaster on 30/4 lancaster.ac.uk/events/vaccina…; online on 26/4 as part of the Royal Society for Public Health webinar series rsph.org.uk/event/communic…. You can still sign up for both

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University of Melbourne with the Synergy Research Alliance for Youth Disability & Mental Health project.

CASS colleague Elena Semino and I are offering linguistic expertise to investigate representations of youth with disability. Enjoying the opportunity to meet the team!

@UniMelb with the Synergy Research Alliance for Youth Disability & Mental Health project. @CorpusSocialSci colleague @elenasemino and I are offering linguistic expertise to investigate representations of youth with disability. Enjoying the opportunity to meet the team!
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Vaclav Brezina(@vaclavbrezina) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A brand new version of the popular corpus linguistics tool X v. 4.0.0 is now available as part of CASS extensive innovation programme:

-ngrams and skipgrams
-new visualizations
- export corpora
- lightning fast searches

lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk

A brand new version of the popular corpus linguistics tool #LancsBox X v. 4.0.0 is now available as part of @CorpusSocialSci extensive innovation programme: -ngrams and skipgrams -new visualizations - export corpora - lightning fast searches lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk
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