CorpusCast

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 in a diverse range of contexts including education, health and technology. CorpusCast is an official Aston University podcast, part of the Aston Originals series.

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Special Episode: Writing Wrongs meets CorpusCast CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love

Welcome to a one off special!No CorpusCast isn't returning but Robbie has recorded a one-off special episode with 'Writing Wrongs' the True Crime Forensic Linguistics podcast from the Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics.Please take a listen to the Writing Wrongs back catalogue ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ or anywhere else you listen to podcasts.—–Here are the 'Writing Wrongs' show notes for this episode:Welcome Wrong’uns to this special episode of Writing Wrongs in conjunction with another Aston Originals podcast: CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love! Nicci, Tim, and Robbie revisit some of Writing Wrongs’ bestclips involving corpus linguistics. Take a trip down memory lane as our hosts call back to S1E3, S1E7, S2E1&2, and S2E6&7, and grill Dr Love about the ins and outs of the use of corpus tools in forensic linguistics.Erratum: Robbie's upcoming performance of We Will Rock You is at the Alexandra Theatre, not the Hippodrome as Nicci mistakenly says. Tickets available ⁠here.⁠ ⁠VOTE FOR US IN THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2026! ⁠ For a list of our sources and more informationabout this case, please visit ⁠https://www.aston.ac.uk/writing-wrongs⁠ Have a question for Nicci or Tim? Email us at ⁠writingwrongs@aston.ac.uk⁠and we may answer it during an upcoming episode! Check out the official AIFL blog for more forensic linguistic goodies here: ⁠https://medium.com/@AIFLblog⁠ If you have been affected by any of the themes in this week’s episode, please contact one of these free sources: ⁠https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/⁠⁠https://www.helpguide.org/find-help⁠ Production Team: Mark Round, Jordan Robertson,Neus Alberich Buera, Karolina PlaczyntaSound: Mark RoundVisual design: George GrantAdditional Voices: Prof Malcolm Coulthard, Dr Issy Clarke, Dr Andrea NiniWith our thanks to Dr Robbie Love Professor Tim Grant’s home page: ⁠Tim Grant- Aston Research Explorer⁠ Dr Nicci MacLeod’s home page: ⁠NicciMacLeod – Aston Research Explorer⁠Dr Robbie Love's home page: ⁠Robbie Love – Aston Research Explorer⁠
  1. Special Episode: Writing Wrongs meets CorpusCast
  2. Episode 36 | Dr Robbie Love on CorpusCast – The Finale
  3. Episode 35 | Professor Stefan Th. Gries on Statistics
  4. Episode 34 | Dr Guyanne Wilson on World Englishes
  5. Episode 33 | Professor Shelley Staples on Learner Corpora

CorpusCast is written and hosted by Robbie Love – Co-Director of Aston Corpus Linguistics Research Group – and produced by Sam Cook, Press and Communications Manager at Aston University.

CorpusCast is featured on the Superlinguo list of linguistics and language podcasts.

CorpusCast is supported by the following initatives:


Episodes

Special Episode | Writing Wrongs Meets CorpusCast

Guest: Dr Robbie Love

Episode 36 | CorpusCast in Review

Guest: Dr Robbie Love

Episode 35 | Statistics

Guest: Professor Stefan Th. Gries

Episode 34 | World Englishes

Guest: Dr Guyanne Wilson

Episode 33 | Learner Corpora

Guest: Professor Shelley Staples

Episode 32 | #LancsBox

Guest: Professor Vaclav Brezina

Episode 31 | Nostalgia

Guests: Professor Charlotte Taylor & Dr Anna Marchi

Episode 30 | Corpus Stylistics

Guest: Professor Dan McIntyre

Episode 29 | Representativeness

Guest: Professor Bethany Gray

Episode 28 | English Language Teaching

Guest: Professor Mike McCarthy

Episode 27 | Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

Guest: Professor Gerlinde Mautner

Episode 26 | Data-Driven Learning

Guest: Dr Peter Crosthwaite

Episode 25 | AntConc

Guest: Professor Laurence Anthony

Episode 24 | Business Communication

Guest: Dr Matteo Fuoli

Episode 23 | Spoken English

Guests: Professor Carita Paradis & Dr Nele Pöldvere

Episode 22 | Computational Sociolinguistics

Guest: Professor Jack Grieve

Episode 21 | Fake News

Guests: Professor Maite Taboada & Dr Katharina Ehret

Episode 20 | Sketch Engine

Guest: Dr Miloš Jakubíček

Episode 19 | Anthropology

Guests: Dr Clyde Ancarno & Professor Insa Nolte

Episode 18 | Linguistics with a Corpus

Guests: Dr Jesse Egbert & Dr Tove Larsson

Episode 17 | Academic Writing

Guest: Dr Kevin Jiang

Episode 16 | Language Acquisition

Guest: Dr Phoebe Lin

Episode 15 | Political Discourse

Guest: Dr Kwabena Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah

Episode 14 | The Survey of English Usage

Guest: Professor Bas Aarts

Episode 13 | Online Communication

Guests: Dr Dawn Knight and Dr Anne O’Keeffe

Episode 12 | TV Dialogue and Screenwriting

Guest: Professor Monika Bednarek

Episode 11 | Legal Interpretation

Guests: Professor Ute Römer and Professor Clark D. Cunningham

Episode 10 | Literary Linguistics

Guest: Professor Michaela Mahlberg

Episode 9 | The Corpus MOOC

Guest: Professor Tony McEnery

Episode 8 | Researching Discrimination

Guest: Dr Mark McGlashan

Episode 7 | Computational Humanities

Guest: Professor Stephanie Evert

Episode 6 | Aviation Communication

Guests: Professor Eric Friginal, Dr Malila Prado and Andrew Schneider

Episode 5 | Marginalised Voices

Guest: Dr Mark Nartey

Episode 4 | Forensic Linguistics

Guests: Professor Tim Grant & Dr Lucia Busso

Episode 3 | Language Education

Guest: Professor Pascual Pérez-Paredes

Episode 2 | Health Communication

Guest: Professor Elena Semino

Episode 1 | Social Justice

Guest: Professor Paul Baker