Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Editors’ foreword
Introduction: Corpora, grammar, and discourse analysis: Recent trends, current challenges
Chapter 1. Pattern grammar and transitivity analysis
Chapter 2. Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions: Exploring corpus data and speaker knowledge
Chapter 3. “Hugh’s across all that”: Some changing uses of prepositions
Chapter 4. The textual functions of lexis
Chapter 5. Examining associations between lexis and textual position in hard news stories, or according to a study by…
Chapter 6. I mean I only really wanted to dry me towels because …: Organisational frameworks across modes, registers, and genres
Chapter 7. Probably most important of all: Importance markers in academic and popular history articles
Chapter 8. Chatting in the academy: Informality in spoken academic discourse
Chapter 9. General extenders in learner language
Chapter 10. Language description and language learning: The pedagogic corpus and learners as researchers
Chapter 11. “What we contrarians already know”: Individual and communal aspects of attitudinal identity
Chapter 12. Does Britain need any more foreign doctors? Inter-analyst consistency and corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis
Publications by Susan Hunston
Author Index
Subject Index
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