Projects per year
Personal profile
Career Details
I am Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University.
Research Grants
I received research funding of £10,880,462 while at Lancaster University. I am currently principal investigator of the Leverhulme Trust funded grant Memories of China.
Research Interests
My main interest at present is representation in Chinese historical newspapers.
External positions
Member of Council, Academy of Social Sciences
1/08/2019 → 31/07/2021
Keywords
- Discourse analysis
- Language and Manipulation
- Bad Language
- Theoretical and corpus-based linguistics
User-defined keywords
- Linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- English Language
- Discourse Analysis
- Applied Linguistics
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Memories of China - China and Britain in the 19th Century Press
McEnery, T. (Principal Investigator) & McEnery, T. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/25 → 30/09/27
Project: Research
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ECF: Shaping the Path to Inclusive Speech Interfaces with Ambient Intelligence (Sam Holland)
McEnery, T. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/25 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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Trinity Corpus Lancaster Project 6
McEnery, T. (Principal Investigator) & Brookes, G. (Co-Investigator)
31/03/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Trinity-Lancaster Corpus
Brezina, V. (Co-Investigator), Gablasova, D. (Co-Investigator), McEnery, T. (Principal Investigator) & Clarke, I. (Co-Investigator)
31/03/22 → 31/12/26
Project: Research
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Trinity-Lancaster Corpus projects 4 & 5
McEnery, T. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/23 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Gendered representations in swearing: bitch and bastard in the spoken BNC2014
Sha, Y., Vallery, R. & McEnery, T., 20/02/2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Discourse Studies.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
Semino, E., Baker, P., Brookes, G., Collins, L. & McEnery, A., 25/09/2025, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 228 p.Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
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A Question of Alignment – AI, GenAI and Applied Linguistics
Curry, N., McEnery, A. & Brookes, G., 31/03/2025, In: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 45, p. 315-336 22 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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Corpora and the Study of Historical Medical Discourse
Brookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, A. & Putland, E., 26/11/2025, Historical Medical Discourse: Corpus Linguistic Perspectives. Brookes, G., Curry, N., McEnery, T. & Putland, E. (eds.). London: Routledge, (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Corpus linguistics for language teaching and learning: A research agenda
Curry, N. & McEnery, T., 30/04/2025, In: Language Teaching. 58, 2, p. 232-251 20 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Panel event for International Consortium for Communication in Health Care series
Coltman-Patel, T. (Speaker), Dance, W. (Speaker), Deignan, A. (Speaker), Gatherer, D. (Speaker), Hardaker, C. (Speaker), McEnery, T. (Chair) & Semino, E. (Speaker)
15/02/2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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How do we talk about drought? The context of Britain as represented by national newspapers and oral histories
Dayrell , C. (Speaker), Baker, H. S. (Speaker), Pearce, R. (Participant) & McEnery, A. M. (Speaker)
22/06/2018 → 24/06/2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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The 4th Corpora and Discourse International Conference
Baker, J. P. (Chair), Dayrell , C. (Organiser), McEnery, A. M. (Organiser), Hardie, A. (Organiser) & McCarthy, R. (Organiser)
22/06/2018 → 24/06/2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
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What do newspapers talk about when they talk about drought?
Dayrell , C. (Speaker), Baker, H. S. (Speaker) & McEnery, A. M. (Participant)
14/03/2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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ESRC (External organisation)
McEnery, T. (Member)
10/2016 → …Activity: Membership types › Member of an organisation
Press/Media
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CASS awarded 200,000 from landmark ESRC Urgency Grant Scheme
Baker, P., Hardie, A., Iganski, P., Hardaker, C. & McEnery, T.
15/10/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Corpus Linguistics 2013 @ Lancaster - Call for Papers
Leech, G., Baker, P., Hardie, A., Baron, A., Xiao, R., Rayson, P. & McEnery, T.
3/10/12
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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New book published - English Language: Description, Variation and Context
Kerswill, P., Wodak, R., McEnery, T., Katamba, F. & Culpeper, J.
24/07/09
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Datasets
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The Written British National Corpus 2014
Brezina, V. (Creator), Hawtin, A. (Creator), McEnery, T. (Creator) & Platt, W. (Creator), Lancaster University, 2021
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/584, https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk
Dataset
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S-Research datasets and databases
Gablasova, D. (Creator), Brezina, V. (Creator) & McEnery, T. (Creator), Lancaster University, 30/10/2019
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/332, http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/trinity/search
Dataset
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Chinese CALLHOME Corpus, XML edition #external #dataset
McEnery, T. (Creator) & Xiao, Z. (Creator), Linguistic Data Consortium, 15/09/2008
DOI: 10.35111/c4fh-9d64
Dataset
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Corpus collection – Counter-piracy narrative
Prentice, S. (Creator), Germond, B. (Other) & McEnery, A. M. (Other), Lancaster University, 2016
DOI: 10.17635/lancaster/researchdata/49
Dataset
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