Amanda C. Murphy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Amanda C. Murphy is involved.
2015 On “true” portraits of Letters to Shareholders – and the importance of phraseological analysis Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
The purpose of the present paper is primarily methodological. It provides evidence that a research question investigated in a corpus can produce different results according to the software adopted, queries the comparability of the results, and shows that the whole picture is more than one piece of… read more
2013 On “true” portraits of Letters to Shareholders – and the importance of phraseological analysis Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 57–82 | Article
The purpose of the present paper is primarily methodological. It provides evidence that a research question investigated in a corpus can produce different results according to the software adopted, queries the comparability of the results, and shows that the whole picture is more than one piece of… read more
2010 4-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 87–103 | Article
2008 N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 351–367 | Article
This paper investigates the idiom principle realized as four-word phrases (4-grams) headed by prepositions in specialized corpora in English and Italian. Concentrating on at the end of, it reports that the collocates of at the end of regard time, and that apparently synonymic 4-grams are not used… read more
How can volunteering be a pathway to integration? A qualitative study on international students Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education: Online-First Articles | Article
Thirteen degree-seeking international students enrolled at a large private university in Italy participated in semi-structured interviews to investigate how volunteer experiences can help international students to better integrate socially. Data analysis was informed by the three stages of the… read more