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Isobelle Clarke

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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Lancaster University

My research interests include corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, sociolinguistics, news discourse and discourse analysis. My previous research covers language variation on social media, especially Twitter. For example, I have analysed general tweets, trolling tweets, abusive language tweets, and Donald Trump's tweets. I also have experience in authorship analysis. My previous research has also focused on news discourse, where I have examined the representation of Islam in the UK press through time. In my current research, I am investigating the language of second language learners and anti-science discourse. I received Leverhulme Trust's Early Career Researcher fellowship to investigate anti-science discourses, such as anti-vaccination discourse, climate change denials, and anti-GMO discourse.

Experience

  • –present
    Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Lancaster University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of Birmingham, PhD in Applied Linguistics
  • 2016 
    Aston University, MA in Forensic Linguistics
  • 2015 
    University of Hertfordshire, BA (Hons) in English Language and Communication with English Language Teaching

Publications

  • 2022
    A multi-dimensional analysis of English tweets, Language and Literature
  • 2022
    Keywords through time: A study of representations of Islam in the British press. , International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
  • 2021
    Multiple Correspondence Analysis, newspaper discourse and subregister: A case study of discourses of Islam in the British press, Register Studies
  • 2020
    Responding effectively to customer feedback on Twitter: A mixed methods study of webcare styles, Applied Linguistics
  • 2019
    Stylistic variation on the Donald Trump Twitter account, PlosOne
  • 2019
    Functional linguistic variation in Twitter Trolling, The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
  • 2018
    Attributing the Bixby Letter using n-gram Tracing., Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
  • 2018
    ‘I consider myself to be a service provider’: Discursive identity construction of the forensic linguistic expert., The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law
  • 2017
    Dimensions of Abusive Language on Twitter, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Abusive Language Online

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Meeting Future Challenges in Language Testing and Teaching: Building Teams, Setting Goals
    Role:
    Co-investigator
    Funding Source:
    Economic and Social Research Council
  • 2022
    Trinity-Lancaster Corpus
    Role:
    Co-investigator
    Funding Source:
    Trinity College London
  • 2021
    Understanding the linguistic repertoires across anti-science narratives
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust
  • 2020
    The local perspective – understanding differences between local and national reporting of Islam
    Role:
    Co-investigator
    Funding Source:
    UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund