Emily Powell

Excited to see this out! 'Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare' - new #openaccess book, with @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social. @lancslinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Today, due to the recent spread of (false) narratives about trans perpetrators of mass shootings, I decided to look up search stats for the term “trans shooter.” The term was hardly used at all before May 2022, when the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde happened.

Legal cynicism in Men’s Rights discourses: Using corpus linguistics to investigate how distrust in the legal system excuses and perpetuates sexual violence against women The term legal cynicism refers to a type of legal disengagement which is associated with a lack of internal commitment to follow legal rules and a fai…

Thought provoking article by @katebarber.bsky.social about legal cynicism in Men's Rights discourses. Well worth a read if you are researching/interested in the neutralisation of past and future harm.

🚨New article published!
🟦 @katebarber.bsky.social explores hyperlinks in blog posts by extremist right-wing men.
🔷Drawing on positioning strategies, the legitimising function of anchor text is studied.
🔷Non-transparent anchor text perpetuates rape culture.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An excellent article (use link).
Its time to abandon nonverbal behaviour as a deception cue. 50 years of research show no support for it. Polygraph, voice stress analysis, microexpressions, eye tracking - its all pseudoscience.
#Deception

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"[MGTOW] been described as misogynistic, but Ofcom’s interviewees insisted it was not because it was about choosing to live without women, not hating them."

Fun fact: there is rather a lot of woman hating

source: I literally wrote a book about this group

Thanks, David!

The Language of Mass Shooter Manifestos: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Pre-Crime Narratives Bringing together scholarship from corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, and criminology, this book offers a nuanced exploration of moral agency in the pre-crime narratives of offenders. The volum...

www.routledge.com/The-Language...

Out now: my monograph on the language of mass shooter manifestos.

Crime Fiction and Missing Persons Appeals to the Public This book combines genre fiction studies, forensic linguistics, and media studies to examine the efficacy of police missing persons appeals to the public.

New and unusual publication!

Crime Fiction and Missing Persons Appeals to the Public by

@drabigailboucher.bsky.social
myself!
@dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social
@empowell.bsky.social

#academicsky
#forensiclinguistics

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We are pleased to announce the 19th edition of the International Summer School in Forensic Linguistic Analysis (ISSFLA) at Aston University 24-27 June 2025.
Founded in 2000 by Professor Malcolm Coulthard, the International Summer School in #ForensicLinguistic Analysis 2025 addresses subjects
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Long overdue!

Have you tried our (free and secure!) free text/qualitative analysis toolkit yet? We'd be interested to see what you think. Check it out at freetxt.app

What are we doing here? Linguistics and the Legal Domain Please note that this is a hybrid event, taking place at Aston University and on Teams.

Free talk alert:

Come learn about my latest research @aifl.bsky.social at 4pm on 20 Feb! (You can also watch remotely via the link below)

This talk brings together my thoughts on legal genres, legal English, and the scope of "forensic linguistics" as a field. Plus I'll have some cool graphs!

Narrative Criminology Symposium 2025: Narrating Harm, Narrating Hope. Hosted by the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University.

Exciting news! At Swansea University we’re hosting the 5th Narrative Criminology Symposium -‘Narrating harm, narrating hope’ - 15th-17th June 2025.

More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narrative-...

Just listened to this ep today - Kate Steel's research examines body cam data from police officers attending domestic violence call-outs in the UK. Fascinating emerging findings and great to hear Kate is working on translating these into practical training to improve police communication

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