Isobelle Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 6701158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isobelle Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isobelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5541-6327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media
Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavi…
Using Atlas.ti to interpret keyword co-occurrence analysis
In this study we use ATLAS.ti to interpret the results of a keyword co-occurrence analysis (KCA) of fake vaccination news. Specifically, KCA is used to uncover the most dominant patterns of co-occurring keywords across a corpus of 37,676 texts from 235 pseudoscience and conspiracy websites that mention vaccin* . KCA enables researchers to examine linguistic patterns of fake news from multiple angles, including discourse, register, style, and atti…
Eades, Diana
This entry details the academic career and contributions of the Australian linguist, Diana Eades. Eades is a major figure in the field of forensic linguistics with her work on increasing understanding about the linguistic disadvantage and communicative challenges faced by speakers of Aboriginal English and nonstandard varieties of English in the Australian legal context. Additionally, her work on language analysis for the determination of origins…
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets
This paper applies Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to a corpus of English tweets to uncover the most common patterns of linguistic variation. MDA is a commonly applied method in corpus linguistics for the analysis of functional and/or stylistic variation in a particular language variety. Notably, MDA is an approach aimed at identifying and interpreting the frequent patterns of co-occurring linguistic features across a corpus, such as a corpus of…
Keywords through time
This paper applies a new approach to the identification of discourses, based on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), to the study of discourse variation over time. The MCA approach to keywords deals with a major issue with the use of keywords to identify discourses: the allocation of individual keywords to multiple discourses. Yet, as this paper demonstrates, the approach also allows us to observe variation in the prevalence of discourses over…
Corpus studies of language through time
The study of language through time has long been an area where the corpus approach to the analysis of language has been an important method. The possibility of using other methods, such as elicitation, introspection or psycholinguistic experiments to investigate language in the past is, effectively, eliminated by a simple fact -there is no direct access possible to speakers of language beyond those generations that are living. Our only access to …
Responding Effectively to Customer Feedback on Twitter
Social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for companies to interact more closely with customers and market their products and services. But social media also present reputational risks as negative word-of-mouth can spread more quickly and widely through these platforms than ever before. This study investigates how companies respond to customer complaints on Twitter. We propose an innovative mixed methods approach (i) to identify the key fea…
Functional linguistic variation in Twitter trolling
Trolling is a multifunctional phenomenon, which varies considerably, not only in terms of the behaviours it displays and the perceptions of those behaviours, but also with respect to the platform and the community in which it resides. From a forensic perspective, trolling also varies in terms of that which is prosecutable to that which is not. Despite trolling being a linguistic act, little is known about how trolling varies linguistically. This …
‘I consider myself to be a service provider’
This article reports on a research project investigating the professional identity of linguists as experts in legal and forensic settings. It reveals how they construct that identity discursively and intersubjectively. The analysis adopts a social constructionist perspective whereby the ways in which the experts talk and make sense of their professional experience are seen as identity building. Using interview data and the combined methodologies …
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‘I consider myself to be a service provider’
This article reports on a research project investigating the professional identity of linguists as experts in legal and forensic settings. It reveals how they construct that identity discursively and intersubjectively. The analysis adopts a social constructionist perspective whereby the ways in which the experts talk and make sense of their professional experience are seen as identity building. Using interview data and the combined methodologies …
Functional linguistic variation in Twitter trolling
Trolling is a multifunctional phenomenon, which varies considerably, not only in terms of the behaviours it displays and the perceptions of those behaviours, but also with respect to the platform and the community in which it resides. From a forensic perspective, trolling also varies in terms of that which is prosecutable to that which is not. Despite trolling being a linguistic act, little is known about how trolling varies linguistically. This …
Responding Effectively to Customer Feedback on Twitter
Social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for companies to interact more closely with customers and market their products and services. But social media also present reputational risks as negative word-of-mouth can spread more quickly and widely through these platforms than ever before. This study investigates how companies respond to customer complaints on Twitter. We propose an innovative mixed methods approach (i) to identify the key fea…
A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of English tweets
This paper applies Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to a corpus of English tweets to uncover the most common patterns of linguistic variation. MDA is a commonly applied method in corpus linguistics for the analysis of functional and/or stylistic variation in a particular language variety. Notably, MDA is an approach aimed at identifying and interpreting the frequent patterns of co-occurring linguistic features across a corpus, such as a corpus of…
Keywords through time
This paper applies a new approach to the identification of discourses, based on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), to the study of discourse variation over time. The MCA approach to keywords deals with a major issue with the use of keywords to identify discourses: the allocation of individual keywords to multiple discourses. Yet, as this paper demonstrates, the approach also allows us to observe variation in the prevalence of discourses over…
Corpus studies of language through time
The study of language through time has long been an area where the corpus approach to the analysis of language has been an important method. The possibility of using other methods, such as elicitation, introspection or psycholinguistic experiments to investigate language in the past is, effectively, eliminated by a simple fact -there is no direct access possible to speakers of language beyond those generations that are living. Our only access to …
Eades, Diana
This entry details the academic career and contributions of the Australian linguist, Diana Eades. Eades is a major figure in the field of forensic linguistics with her work on increasing understanding about the linguistic disadvantage and communicative challenges faced by speakers of Aboriginal English and nonstandard varieties of English in the Australian legal context. Additionally, her work on language analysis for the determination of origins…
Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, discourses of liberty, and “the new normal” on social media
Public distrust in government, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare professions, and medical science and technology has been consistently linked with vaccine rejection. Policymakers, therefore, want to better understand links between distrust of institutions and vaccine refusal. This paper reports on a case study of posts (tweets) to the social media platform Twitter (now X) collected as part of the TRAC:COVID (Trust and Communication: A Coronavi…
Using Atlas.ti to interpret keyword co-occurrence analysis
In this study we use ATLAS.ti to interpret the results of a keyword co-occurrence analysis (KCA) of fake vaccination news. Specifically, KCA is used to uncover the most dominant patterns of co-occurring keywords across a corpus of 37,676 texts from 235 pseudoscience and conspiracy websites that mention vaccin* . KCA enables researchers to examine linguistic patterns of fake news from multiple angles, including discourse, register, style, and atti…
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Business (2 works)