Keywords
Altered states of consciousness, Automatic content analysis, Body image, Fashion, Mysticism, Non-verbal communication, Probability, Psychoanalytic thought, Quantitative linguistics, Semiotics, Statistics, Systems theory
Research Areas
Theoretical and corpus-based linguistics
Dr Andrew Wilson
Senior Lecturer
County South
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YL
Email: Email Hidden
Tel: +44 1524 593021
Affiliations
UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
My main research interests are in quantitative linguistics and computer-assisted content analysis. My current research focusses mainly on applying quantitative models to the Celtic languages. I am also interested in non-verbal semiotics, especially the construction of cultural meanings in the domain of fashion and footwear.
PhD Supervision Interests
Language and religion/spirituality. Language and psychoanalysis.The linguistics of altered states of consciousness. Quantitative linguistics. The discourse of fashion (including non-verbal aspects).
Current Teaching
FASS 508 - Quantitative Research Methods Introduction
FASS 509 - Quantitative Research Methods 1
FASS 512 - Quantitative Research Methods 2
LING 102 - Part 1 English Language
LING 103 - Part 1 Linguistics
LING 315 - Forensic Linguistics
LING 421 - Corpus Linguistics
LING 511 - Corpus Linguistics (distance version)
LING 541 - Quantitative Data and Analysis for Applied Linguistics
Research Interests
My main research interests are in quantitative linguistics and computer-assisted content analysis. My current research focusses mainly on applying quantitative models to the Celtic languages. I am also interested in non-verbal semiotics, especially the construction of cultural meanings in the domain of fashion and footwear.
In Press
Embracing Bayes Factors for key item analysis in corpus linguistics
Wilson, A. 2011 New approaches to the study of linguistic variability. Koll-Stobbe, A. & Bieswanger, M. (eds.). Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, (Sprachkönnen und Sprachbewusstheit in Europa).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2013
Word length: aspects and languages
Popescu, I-I., Naumann, S., Kelih, E., Rovenchak, A., Overbeck, A., Sanada, H., Smith, R., ?ech, R., Mohanty, P., Wilson, A. & Altmann, G. 2013 Issues in Quantitative Linguistics Vol. 3. Altmann, G. & Köhler, R. (eds.). Lüdenscheid: RAM-Verlag, p. 224-281 57 p. (Studies in Quantitative Linguistics).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Mapping skeuomorphic artifacts among Polish young adults: a semantic differential study of sculptures at the Liche? pilgrimage centre
Ha?adewicz-Grzelak, M. & Wilson, A. 2013 In: Polish Sociological Review. 181, p. 103-128, 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2012
Meaning as the consciousness of coherence: A dialogue
Wilson, A. & Koch, W. A. 2012 In: Empirical Text and Culture Research. 5, p. 5-13, 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Word lengths in Welsh: Further investigations on prose and verse
Wilson, A. 2012 Synergetic linguistics: Text and language as dynamic systems: To Reinhard Köhler on the Occasion of his 60th birthday. Naumann, S., Grzybek, P., Vulanovi?, R. & Altmann, G. (eds.). Vienna: Praesens Verlag, p. 257-266 10 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Using corpora in depth psychology: a trigram-based analysis of a corpus of fetish fantasies.
Wilson, A. 05/2012 In: Corpora. 7, 1, p. 69-90, 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2011
The regressive imagery dictionary: a test of its concurrent validity in English, German, Latin, and Portuguese.
Wilson, A. 2011 In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 26, 1, p. 125-135, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Boots, indecency, and secular sacred spaces: implicit religious motives underlying an aspect of airline dress codes.
Wilson, A. 2011 In: Implicit Religion. 14, 2, p. 173-192, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
Fetishism and anxiety: a test of some psychodynamic hypotheses.
Wilson, A. 2010 In: Empirical Text and Culture Research. 4, p. 135-143, 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
British military women in civilian knee-high dress boots: a neglected episode in women's uniform history.
Wilson, A. 2010 In: Minerva Journal of Women and War. 4, 1, p. 94-103, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Disinhibition and narrative in the paraphilias.
Wilson, A. 17/03/2010 In: Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. 34, 2, p. 431-431, 1 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Vocabulary richness and thematic concentration in internet fetish fantasies and literary short stories.
Wilson, A. 12/2009 In: Glottotheory. 2, 2, p. 97-107, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Speech, writing and discourse type.
Wilson, A. 24/07/2009 English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Culpeper, J., Katamba, F., Kerswill, P., Wodak, R. & McEnery, T. (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 425-438 14 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
The well-formedness of two psychoanalytic word categories in Portuguese texts.
Wilson, A. 2009 Metody analizu teksta. Methods of text analysis.. Kelih, E., Levickij, V. & Altmann, G. (eds.). Chernivtsi: Chernivtsi State University, p. 285-307 23 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Barrier and penetration imagery in altered states of consciousness discourse: replicating the five-stage model of Christian mysticism in the Bible.
Wilson, A. 02/2009 Cognitive Approaches to Language and Linguistic Data: Studies in Honor of Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk. Oleksy, W. & Stalmaszczyk, P. (eds.). 27 ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 357-372 16 p. (Polish Studies in English Language and Literature).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Vulgata (Altes Testament).
Wilson, A. 07/2009 Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik. Wischmeyer, O. (ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2008
Psychosemiotic Cycles and the Liturgical Year: A Case Study and Framework for Research.
Wilson, A. 08/2008 Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag. 129 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2007
Words for women's boots in present-day Polish: a quantitative and contrastive onomasiological study.
Wilson, A. 2007 In: Research in Language. 5, p. 221-234, 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Conceptual Glossary and Index to the Vulgate Translation of the Gospel according to Mark.
Wilson, A., Baron, A. & Worth, C. 2007 Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann. 824 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2006
A large semantic lexicon for corpus annotation.
Piao, S. S. L., Archer, D., Mudraya, O., Rayson, P., Garside, R., McEnery, A. M. & Wilson, A. 2006 Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2005 conference.. Birmingham
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Paper
A large semantic lexicon for corpus annotation: Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, July 14-17, Birmingham, UK.
Piao, S., Archer, D., Mudraya, O., Rayson, P., Garside, R., McEnery, T. & Wilson, A. 2006 In: Proceedings from the Corpus Linguistics Conference Series. 1, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Applying an evenness index in quantitative studies of language and culture: a case study of women's shoe styles in contemporary Russia.
Wilson, A. & Mudraya, O. 2006 Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text. Grzybek, P. & Köhler, R. (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, p. 709-722 14 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Measuring MWE compositionality using semantic annotation.
Piao, S. L., Rayson, P., Mudraya, O., Wilson, A. & Garside, R. 2006 Proceedings of COLING/ACL Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Development and application of a content analysis dictionary for body boundary research.
Wilson, A. 04/2006 In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 21, 1, p. 105-110, 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Quantitative or Qualitative Content Analysis? Experiences from a cross-cultural comparison of female students' attitudes to shoe fashions in Germany, Poland and Russia.
Wilson, A. & Mudraya, O. V. 2006 Corpus Linguistics around the World. Wilson, A., Rayson, P. & Archer, D. (eds.). Amsterdam: Rodopi, p. 203-217 15 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Conceptual Glossary and Index to the Vulgate Translation of the Petrine Epistles.
Wilson, A. 2006 Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann. 339 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2005
Systemy anotacji korpusów jezykowych, korpusów równoleglych i porównywalnych.
Wilson, A. & Pezik, P. 2005 Podstawy jezykoznawstwa korpusowego. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. (ed.). Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lódzkiego, p. 61-74 14 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Word-length distribution in present-day lower Sorbian newspaper texts.
Wilson, A. 2005 Contributions to the science of text and language: word length studies and related issues. Grzybek, P. (ed.). Berlin: Springer, p. 319-327 9 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Polish and West Slavic languages.
Wilson, A. 2005 Encyclopaedia of linguistics. Strazny, P. (ed.). New York: Routledge, Vol. 2, p. 862-866 5 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Old Irish.
Wilson, A. 2005 Encyclopaedia of linguistics. Strazny, P. (ed.). New York: Routledge, Vol. 2, p. 786-788 3 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Modal verbs in written Indian English: a quantitative analysis of the Kolhapur corpus using correspondence analysis.
Wilson, A. 04/2005 In: ICAME Journal. 29, p. 151-170, 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
German dominatrices’ working names as reflections of self-constructed social identity.
Wilson, A. 06/2005 In: Sexuality and Culture. 9, 2, p. 31-41, 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Genetic relationship.
Wilson, A. 2005 Encyclopaedia of linguistics. Strazny, P. (ed.). New York: Routledge, Vol. 1, p. 377-378 2 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2004
When contextualisation cues mislead: misunderstanding, mutual knowledge, and non-verbal gestures.
Wilson, A. 2004 In: California Linguistic Notes. 29, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2003
Building and annotating corpora of spoken Welsh and Gaelic.
Wilson, A. & Worth, C. A. 2003 Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2003 conference. Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. & McEnery, A. M. (eds.). Lancaster: Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers, p. 909-917 9 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Word length distributions in modern Welsh prose texts.
Wilson, A. 2003 In: Glottometrics. 6
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Extracting Multiword Expressions with a Semantic Tagger
Piao, S., Rayson, P., Archer, D., Wilson, A. & McEnery, T. 07/2003 p. 49-56 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper
Proceedings of the corpus linguistics 2003 conference.
Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. & McEnery, A. M. 2003 Lancaster: Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers, University of Lancaster. 939 p. (UCREL Technical Papers).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Corpus linguistics by the Lune: a festschrift for Geoffrey Leech
Wilson, A., Rayson, P. & McEnery, A. M. 2003 Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 305 p. (Lodz studies in Language).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2002
A multilingual corpus toolkit
Piao, S., Wilson, A. & McEnery, T. 2002 AAACL-2002 Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Conference contribution
Developing conceptual glossaries for the Latin vulgate bible.
Wilson, A. 11/2002 In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 17, 4, p. 413-426, 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The application of computer content analysis in sexology: a case study of primary process content in fictional fetishistic narratives.
Wilson, A. 16/06/2002 In: Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality. 5
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
The stylistic evolution of the English sermon, ca. 1640-2000.
Claridge, C. & Wilson, A. 2002 Sounds, words, texts, change. Selected papers from the 11th international conference on English historical linguistics (11 ICEHL): current issues in linguistic theory. Fanego, T., Méndez-Naya, B. & Seoane, E. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 25-44 20 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
A Rainbow of Corpora: Corpus Linguistics and the Languages of the World
Wilson, A., Rayson, P. & McEnery, A. M. 2002 Munich: Lincom-Europa. 174 p. (Linguistics edition).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2001
Introduction: Self-Access TELL in the New Federal States.
Wilson, A. & Schmied, J. 2001 Learning and Computers: Proceedings of the Chemnitz Symposium, February 1998..
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Language Learning and Computers: Proceedings of the Chemnitz Symposium, February 1998.
Wilson, A. & Schmied, J. 2001 Unknown Publisher.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Word length distributions in classical Latin verse.
Wilson, A. 2001 In: Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics. 75, p. 69-84, 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2000
'An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics'. (G. Kennedy, Longman, 1998).
Wilson, A. 06/2000 In: Literary and Linguistic Computing. 15, 2, p. 243-245, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Multilingual Corpora in Teaching and Research.
Botley, S. P., McEnery, A. M. & Wilson, A. 2000 Amsterdam: Rodopi. 230 p. (Language and computers: studies in practical linguistics).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Conceptual Glossary and Index to the Vulgate Translation of the Gospel according to John.
Wilson, A. 2000 Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann. 398 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Linguistic Corpora and Language Teaching: corpus based help for teaching grammar.
McEnery, T., Wilson, A. & Baker, J. P. 2000 VI Jornada de Corpus Lingüístics. Corpus lingüístics i ensenyament de llengües. Battaner, M. P. & López, C. (eds.). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.: Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Vol. 6, p. 65-77 13 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1999
Standards for Tagsets.
Leech, G. & Wilson, A. 1999 Syntactic Wordclass Tagging. van Halteren, H. (ed.). 9 ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 55-80 26 p. (Text, speech, and language technology).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1997
Teaching grammar again after twenty years: Corpus based help for grammar teaching.
Baker, P., Wilson, A. & McEnery, T. 1997 In: RECALL Journal. 9, 2, p. 8-17, 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
1995
A Statistical Analysis of Corpus Based Computer vs Traditional Human Teaching Methods of Part of Speech Analysis
McEnery, T., Baker, P. & Wilson, A. 1995 In: Computer Assisted Language Learning. 8, 2-3, p. 259-274, 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A brief report on a statistical analysis of corpus-based versus traditional human-teaching methods of part-of-speech analysis
Baker, P., McEnery, T. & Wilson, A. 1995 In: Language Testing Update. 18, p. 59-62, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Language of shoes: verbal and non-verbal reflections of the Self
01/04/2006 →
The 'Language of Shoes' project, based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK, is primarily concerned with how shoes function as a communication code in ever ... Read more»ASSIST: Automated Semantic Assistance for Translators
01/04/2005 → 30/06/2007
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New issue of Empirical Text and Culture Research
18/02/2008Andrew Wilson's research published in the Lancashire Evening Post
12/11/2007
Andrew Wilson has been quoted in an article in the Lancashire Evening Post on 12th November 2007, about his research into the type of footwear women choose and the message this gives to others. See th ... Read more»Andrew Wilson quoted on icWales.co.uk
07/08/2007
Andrew Wilson's research on 'shoe psychology' was quoted on the national website of Wales this week. ... Read more»