Show Notes
Welcome Wrong’uns to this special episode of Writing Wrongs in conjunction with another Aston Originals podcast: CorpusCast with Dr Robbie Love! Nicci, Tim, and Robbie revisit some of Writing Wrongs’ bestclips involving corpus linguistics. Take a trip down memory lane as our hosts call back to S1E3, S1E7, S2E1&2, and S2E6&7, and grill Dr Love about the ins and outs of the use of corpus tools in forensic linguistics. Erratum: Robbie's upcoming performance of We Will Rock You is at the Alexandra Theatre, not the Hippodrome as Nicci mistakenly says. Tickets available here.
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Production Team: Mark Round, Jordan Robertson,Neus Alberich Buera, Karolina Placzynta Sound: Mark Round Visual design: George Grant Additional Voices: Prof Malcolm Coulthard, Dr Issy Clarke, Dr Andrea Nini With our thanks to Dr Robbie Love
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