Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives

Abstract: Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University is an ESRC-supported centre designed to bring a new method to the study of language – the corpus approach – and to apply it to a range of social sciences. In the past few years, CASS has conducted a considerable number of projects, such as British National Corpus: Second Data Analysis; Big Data Media Analysis and the Representation of Urban Violence in Brazil; Changing Climates; Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code; Discourse of Online Misogyny (DOOM); Distressed Communities: Perception and Reality; Hate Speech; Language Development, Disorders and Environment; Newspapers, Poverty and Long-term Change; Religion, Citizenship and Integration; Spoken BNC2014; Spoken Learner Corpus (SLC) Project; Understanding Corporate Communications and Written BNC2014. This initiative has provided new perspectives for the study of other disciplines in which language matters, and has achieved much fruitful work. For their excellence, innovation, impact and benefit to the institution itself and to society generally in the wider world, CASS was awarded The Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2015.