CorpusCast is the podcast about corpus linguistics and what it can do for society. Join Dr Robbie Love as he speaks with top researchers in the field to find out more about how corpus linguistics – the study of linguistic patterns in large samples of language – is applied to a diverse range of areas including health, social justice and education. On this episode, Robbie chats to Professor Carita Paradis & Dr Nele Pöldvere , experts behind the ground-breaking London-Lund Corpus-2 (LLC-2). This half-million-word spoken British English corpus bridges a 50-year gap, connecting one of the earliest English spoken corpora with one of the most recent. Carita Paradis, professor emerita of English Linguistics at Lund University, Sweden, has dedicated her research to unravelling the intricacies of meaning-making in human communication within the realm of cognitive linguistics. Through methods like corpus linguistics, she sheds light on the insights linguistic expressions offer about human interaction, perception and cognition. Dr Nele Poldvere, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, is currently immersed in a project investigating the language of fake news (which we explored in detail in Episode #21 – be sure to check it out in our archives!), today's conversation centres around her PhD project at Lund University. Dr Robbie Love 👉 https://bit.ly/3Zcgo36 Professor Carita Paradis 👉 https://bit.ly/3QfTeFD Dr Nele Pöldvere 👉 https://bit.ly/3QkGH3D Aston Centre for Applied Linguistics 👉 https://bit.ly/3QKHcSF School of Social Sciences and Humanities 👉 https://bit.ly/3JCRAd1 Find out more about courses related to this show 👉 https://bit.ly/3pR705k #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #astonuniversity