Phobia: A corpus study of political diagnostics

Jan Buts Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Volume 7, Article number: 101 OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00593-w Abstract This article is a rhetorical corpus study of the use of -phobia in online alternative media. The term phobia is used in the psychiatric domain to refer to a range of anxiety disorders, but is now also commonly used to identify social tensions.

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‘Is climate science taking over the science?’: A corpus-based study of competing stances on bias, dogma and expertise in the blogosphere

Luis Pérez-González Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Volume 7, Article number: 92 OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00582-z Abstract Climate change science has become an increasingly polarized site of controversy, where discussions on epistemological rigour are difficult to separate from debates on the impact that economic and political interests have on the production of evidence and the construction of knowledge. Little research

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Free webinar event: Conceptual Analysis and Thematic Corpora

Conceptual Analysis and Thematic Corpora: Theory, Methodology and Indicative Case Studies A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network, in collaboration with Aston University, UK Date: Thursday 12th November Time: 09.45-13.00 (GMT) Venue: Blackboard Collaborate Ultra The Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network is pleased to announce it will be hosting a free webinar exploring theoretical and methodological questions

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Hippocrates transformed: Crafting a Hippocratic discourse of medical semiotics in English, 1850–1930

Kamran I. Karimullah Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume 7, Article number: 27 (2020) OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0511-7   ABSTRACT This study presents a methodology for adapting corpus linguistics to the genealogical analysis of translation’s role in the evolution of medical concepts. This methodology is exhibited by means of a case study that draws on a number of corpora to explore how two English translators—Francis

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New Research Network Twitter

The Genealogies of Knowledge project has come to the end of its funded period. Going forward, the team continues to extend its activities through a dedicated Research Network. As part of this development, we have set up a new Twitter account. The old project account will become inactive, so please follow the new page if you would like to remain

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Using Corpora to Trace the Cross-Cultural Mediation of Concepts through Time: An interview with the coordinators of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network

Mona Baker, Shanghai International Studies University, China & University of Oslo, Norway Jan Buts, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Henry Jones, Aston University, UK Interview and translation by Zhao Wenjing, Zhengzhou Shengda University and Henan Normal University, and Yang Guosheng, Henan Polytechnic   (1) Can you say something about the remit and scope of the Genealogies of Knowledge project? How does

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