In this talk, Dr. Dayter will discuss the benefits of using corpus linguistic methods in addition to more widely used content analysis approaches. She will focus on corpus-assisted and corpus-based discourse studies, an approach to the study of discourse based on the computer-aided analysis of large volumes of naturally occurring data.

BIO: Daria Dayter is Associate Professor in English Linguistics at Tampere University, Finland. She researches persuasion in social media and is a co-founding member of the coPRe (communicative practices on Reddit) and OSSO (Online Self - Selves Online) research networks.