We are delighted to announce that we will be able to offer the following awards to recognise excellence at the Corpora and Discourse International Conference:
- Project (poster or paper) showing greatest methodological innovation or reflexivity by a student researcher. Sponsored by Applied Corpus Linguistics journal (value £250). Award winner: Mark Wilkinson (Lancaster), ‘Black or gay or Jewish or whatever’: A diachronic corpus-based discourse analysis of how the UK’s LGBTQI population came to be represented as secular, cisgender, gay, white and male
- Project (poster or paper) with greatest potential for impact by a student researcher. Sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan. The award winner will be invited to order £150 of Palgrave books. Award winner: James Balfour (Lancaster), A genuine fantasy? Comparing distinctive language used to represent people with schizophrenia in the UK tabloid and broadsheet press
- Best project (poster or paper) addressing a socially relevant topic by a student researcher. Sponsored by John Benjamins. The award winner will be invited to select a book from the John Benjamins list. Award winner: Kate Barber (Cardiff), Using CADS to uncover how right-wing extremists generate an alternative rape culture in online narratives
- Project (poster or paper) best adapted to the online format. The winner will receive a commemorative conference mug and £50 book voucher. Award winner: Katherine Kavanagh (Cardiff), ‘What’s So Special About The Circus?’