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Dr. Andrew Hardie is a Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University, holding a position equivalent to Associate Professor. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the Department of Linguistics and English Language within the School of Social Sciences.
His primary research specialism focuses on corpus-based methodology and its applications across various disciplines:
- Corpus design and construction methodologies
- Development of corpus analysis software tools
- Applications in grammar of English and other languages
- Extensions to discourse analysis, language teaching, and other humanities and social sciences fields
Dr. Hardie's work spans both theoretical and applied linguistics, with particular emphasis on adapting corpus methods for social scientists and humanists in fields including Psychology, Geography, History, and English Literature. His expertise extends to multiple languages, with special focus on South Asian languages such as Nepali, Urdu, and Hindi.
He has developed several significant software tools for corpus linguistics, including Corpus Workbench (as a lead developer), CQPweb (as creator), Unicodify, and Unitag, which have substantially advanced the field of corpus linguistics methodology.
His research portfolio includes major projects like the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (where he serves as Deputy Director) and UCREL (where he is Chair), demonstrating his leadership in the field. His work bridges theoretical linguistics, computational methods, and practical applications across multiple disciplines.
Dr. Hardie actively supervises PhD students working on diverse topics from collocational errors in language learning to sociolinguistics of swearing in Arabic, reflecting the breadth of his research interests and influence across linguistic subfields.
