http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/centres/cass/

CASS is a Centre designed to bring a new method in the study of language – the corpus approach – to a range of social sciences. In doing it provides an insight into the use and manipulation of language in society in a host of areas of pressing concern, including climate change, hate crime and education. By providing fresh perspectives in such problems, we are helping to develop new approaches to challenging practices such as hate speech both in terms of raising awareness and of informing policy makers and other stakeholders of how such language may be used to wound and offend.

People

Centre Director, Principal Investigator

• Tony McEnery - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

Deputy Centre Director, Co-Investigator

• Andrew Hardie - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

Co-Investigators

• Paul Baker - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

• Damon Berridge - Centre for Applied Statistics, Lancaster University

• Kate Cain - Psychology, Lancaster University

• Jonathan Culpeper - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

• Peter Diggle– Medicine, Lancaster University

• Ian Gregory - History, Lancaster University

• Paul Iganski - Applied Social Science, Lancaster University

• Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad - Politics, Philosophy, and Religion, Lancaster University

• Paul Rayson - Computing & Communications, Lancaster University

• John Urry - Sociology, Lancaster University

• Steven Young - Accounting & Finance, Lancaster University

Project Leaders

• Basil Germond, ”Maritime Security and Piracy Discourses in Europe”

• Claire Hardaker, “Anatomy of a Troll”

• Richard Xiao, “Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chinese Perspectives”

Senior Research Associates

• Vaclav Brezina - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

• Amanda Potts - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

Research Students

• Robbie Love - Linguistics & English Language, Lancaster University

Finally, theCollege of Project Ambassadors is a user group composed of members associated with organisations which are key consumers of academic research. Each critically interacts with, and assists in disseminating outputs from, specific projects within the Centre.