English Text Construction

Editors
Lieselotte Brems | University of Liège
ORCiD logo with linkLobke Ghesquière | Université de Mons
ORCiD logo with linkBrecht de Groote | Ghent University
Editorial Assistant
ORCiD logo with linkDana Louagie | University of Liège |
ORCiD logo with linkFaye Troughton | University of Mons |

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English Text Construction is an internationally refereed journal of English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and Literary Studies focusing on the communicating subject and the text constructing this intersubjective communication. The journal offers a forum for currently converging tendencies that place the text-constructing subject in centre stage. This general common denominator subsumes fundamental movements in the three disciplines of English studies, viz. literary studies, linguistics and applied linguistics. In literary studies narratological perspectives remain of abiding interest, as well as study of the psychologically and ideologically fragmented subject as it reveals itself in literary texts. The study of literature is currently also witnessing renewed interest in the gendered and sociopolitically situated subject and its moral responsibilities. In linguistics, the communicating subject is central to functional, cognitive and pragmatic approaches. Functional linguistics investigates how language is used to communicate about the world and to negotiate the social and discourse roles. Cognitive linguistics studies language usage as it constructs the perspectivized meanings of the conceptualizing subject. Pragmatic approaches focus on the whole message, both the linguistically predicated and the contextually implied one, exchanged between the interlocutors. In Applied linguistics, the subject also plays a central role. Applied linguistic interest in text and the construal of subjectivity is reflected, among others, in genre-oriented approaches to text, and in discourse-oriented and corpus-based analyses as the basis for various ELT applications. For instance, considerable attention has been devoted to issues such as stance in (research) writing and presentations, and to subjectivity in translation studies. Similarly, in language teaching methodology increased attention is given to individual learners and learning styles.

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Latest articles

26 May 2026

  • Meet the experts on the war in Ukraine: Discursive strategies of representing competent sources and their voices in opinion‑making news outlets
    Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska
  • Transportable audio descriptions of diversity? Queen Charlotte and the limits of Netflix’s inclusion strategy
    Alexandra Sanchez

    • 10 April 2026

  • Transparent foreignization: Leila Aboulela’s literary practice in The Translator
    Chiara Arcadio
  • Mapping Oz: A narratological study of the setting and its politics in L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked
    Jante Borremans

    • 20 January 2026

  • ‘I want the text to still be me’: Foregrounding ChatGPT’s impact on L2 voice
    Marilize Pretorius

    • 20 November 2025

  • Proper names and plot progression in Jack London’s play Theft : A corpus linguistics approach
    Maya Sfeir

    • 16 October 2025

  • Evaluative stance in academic arguments: A study of that-structures in applied linguistics research article introductions
    Ebtesam Abbasi Montazeri & Alireza Jalilifar | ETC 17:2 (2024) pp. 166–207
  • Thom Gunn’s poetry and capital: A reading through Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology
    Fatemeh Shahpoori Arani | ETC 17:2 (2024) pp. 208–233
  • The interplay between prosodic prominence and boundary strength in the production of English checked steady-state vowels
    Gil Verbeke & Wout Van Praet | ETC 17:2 (2024) pp. 262–288
  • The development of discourse competence in learner academic writing
    Sonca Vo | ETC 17:2 (2024) pp. 141–165
  • Deconstructing OUT-prefixation: A construction grammar approach
    Helin Yalcin | ETC 17:2 (2024) pp. 234–261
    • IssuesOnline-first articles

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    Volume 16 (2023)

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    Interdisciplinary approaches to the language of pop culture
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    Volume 15 (2022)

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    Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World
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    Volume 14 (2021)

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    Volume 13 (2020)

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    Volume 12 (2019)

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    Volume 11 (2018)

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    Revisiting Shakespeare's Language

    Volume 10 (2017)

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    Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse
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    Volume 9 (2016)

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    The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause

    Volume 8 (2015)

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    Volume 7 (2014)

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    Volume 6 (2013)

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    Multilingualism in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries

    Volume 5 (2012)

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    Intersections of Intersubjectivity

    Volume 4 (2011)

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    Volume 3 (2010)

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    Textual choices and discourse genres: Creating meaning through form
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    Volume 2 (2009)

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    Volume 1 (2008)

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    Editorial info
    Editors
    Lieselotte Brems | University of Liège
    ORCiD logo with linkLobke Ghesquière | Université de Mons
    ORCiD logo with linkBrecht de Groote | Ghent University
    Editorial Assistant
    ORCiD logo with linkDana Louagie | University of Liège |
    ORCiD logo with linkFaye Troughton | University of Mons |
    Editorial Board
    ORCiD logo with linkKarin Aijmer | University of Göteborg
    ORCiD logo with linkJohan van der Auwera | University of Antwerp
    Amy Cook | Stony Brook University
    Barbara Dancygier | University of British Columbia
    ORCiD logo with linkKristin Davidse | University of Leuven
    Catherine Emmott | University of Glasgow
    Roberta Facchinetti | University of Verona
    Lynne Flowerdew | Birkbeck, University of London
    ORCiD logo with linkGaëtanelle Gilquin | University of Louvain
    David Glover | University of Southampton
    Ton Hoenselaars | Utrecht University
    Ken Hyland | University of East Anglia
    ORCiD logo with linkLesley Jeffries | University of Huddersfield
    ORCiD logo with linkHilary Nesi | Coventry University
    Jean-Michel Rabaté | University of Pennsylvania
    ORCiD logo with linkUte Römer-Barron | Georgia State University
    Sam Slote | Trinity College Dublin
    ORCiD logo with linkLieven Vandelanotte | University of Namur
    Tony Veale | University College Dublin
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