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SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)
My main research interests relate to the use of corpus linguistics methodologies to study language production, from various perspectives and in different settings.
I first investigated potential differences (and similarities) between lexical patterning in translated and non-translated texts of the same language. My attention then turned to English academic writing and I examined features of abstracts written in English by Brazilian graduate students from various disciplines.
My current research projects have used the corpus methodology to examine the interaction between discourse and society. I have undertaken studies on pressing issues such as climate change, drought and water scarcity, immigrants’ identity, and urban violence from a variety of UK and Brazilian contexts.
Keywords
- Discourse analysis
- corpus-assisted discourse analysis
- critical discourse analysis
- media discourse
- Theoretical and corpus-based linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Translation Studies
- EFL Teaching
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Projects
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Corpus Analysis of Sellafield Employee Forum and Interviews
Semino, E. (Principal Investigator), Newton, R. (Co-Investigator) & Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Co-Investigator)
18/01/21 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
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Representations of 'race', racism and race equality in the UK press
Semino, E. (Principal Investigator) & Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Researcher)
10/02/20 → 15/04/20
Project: Research
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Representations of Social Care in the Politicians’ and General Public’s Discourse
Semino, E. (Principal Investigator) & Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Researcher)
15/11/19 → 31/01/20
Project: Research
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Big data media analysis and the representation of urban violence in Brazil
Semino, E. (Principal Investigator) & Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Researcher)
1/01/15 → 31/12/15
Project: Research
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Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time
Gillings, M. & Dayrell, C., 7/03/2024, In: Applied Linguistics. 45, 1, p. 111-133 23 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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CASS Briefing: Representation of the sea in the UK press
Dayrell, C., Germond, B. & Germond‐Duret, C., 24/02/2022, CASS Briefings ed. Lancaster: ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS). 12 p.Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Other report
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Representation of Drought Events in the United Kingdom: Contrasting 200 years of News Texts and Rainfall Records
Dayrell, C., Svensson, C., Hannaford, J., McEnery, T., Barker, L. J., Baker, H. & Tanguy, M., 18/03/2022, In: Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10, 18 p., 760147.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Analysing the impacts of 19th-century drought: A corpus-based study
McEnery, A., Baker, H. & Dayrell, C., 26/02/2021, Exploring discourse and ideology through corpora. Fuster-Márquez, M., Gregori-Signes, C., Santaemilia, J. & Rodríguez-Abruñeiras, P. (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group, (Linguistic Insights; vol. 276).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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'Face masks’ and ‘face coverings’ in the UK press during the Covid-19 pandemic: Scottish vs. national newspapers
Dayrell, C., Clarke, I. & Semino, E., 5/01/2021Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputs › Blog › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Publication of "Representation of the Sea in the UK Press: Public Awareness of the Oceans"
Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Contributor), Germond, B. (Contributor) & Germond-Duret, C. (Contributor)
14/12/2021Activity: Other activity types › Other
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Climate change in the UK press: examining discourse fluctuation over time
Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Speaker) & Gillings, M. (Speaker)
13/07/2021 → 16/07/2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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A corpus-based study of representations of social care during the 2019 UK General Election campaign
Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Speaker) & Semino, E. (Speaker)
17/06/2020 → 19/06/2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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A corpus linguistic approach to the evaluation of medication safety oversight programs in the United States
Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Speaker), Triller, D. (Active Contributor), Bessada, Y. (Speaker) & Semino, E. (Active Contributor)
17/06/2020 → 19/06/2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Social care in the UK press: A corpus-based study in collaboration with third-sector organisations
Semino, E. (Speaker), Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Active Contributor) & Kinloch, K. (Speaker)
19/08/2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Datasets
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Historic droughts inventory of references from British tabloid newspapers 1992-2014
Dayrell Gomes Da Costa, C. (Creator), Fry, M. (Creator) & Bachiller-Jareno, N. (Creator), UK Data Service, 2019
DOI: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-853403, https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=853403
Dataset