SubjectsLinguistics / Corpus linguistics
Book series
ISSN 3117-7646
Journals
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Edited by Peter Crosthwaite
ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Functions of Language
Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Elena Smirnova and Sumin Zhao
ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765
International Journal of Learner Corpus Research
General Editor: Tove Larsson and Magali Paquot
ISSN 2215-1478 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1486
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics
Published under the auspices of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics
Edited by Francisco Alonso-Almeida and Giovanni Garofalo
ISSN 0213-2028 | E‑ISSN 2254‑6774
Cross-linguistic Register Variation
Edited by Sylvi Rørvik and Marlén Izquierdo
A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 125] 2026. v, 267 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Translation Studies
Grammar through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Javier Pérez-Guerra, Yolanda Fernández-Pena and Ana Elina Martínez-Insua
This book brings together cutting-edge research on grammatical variation and change in English, showcasing the state of the art in contemporary corpus linguistics. The studies apply corpus-based and variationist methods to a wide range of grammatical categories (nominal, adjectival, verbal,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 128] 2026. vi, 281 pp. + index
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges
Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco
Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126] 2026. vi, 341 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez
Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] 2026. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning
Edited by Robyn Ober, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:2 (2026) v, 166 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages
Edited by Henry Tyne and Stefania Spina
Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] 2025. vi, 406 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Romance linguistics
Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research
Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark and Anne O'Keeffe
This book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL, equipping readers with the foundational… read more[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 12] 2025. xiii, 207 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Cumulative Knowledge Building in Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Tove Larsson and Douglas Biber
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 11:1 (2025) v, 244 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
The Development of Speaker-Oriented Adverbs in English: Reanalysis, ellipsis, lexicalization or analogy?
Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
The book investigates the development of ‘speaker-oriented adverbs’ (SOAs) such as frankly, surprisingly, and apparently in standard written English. SOAs take propositional scope, i.e. they modify clauses or sentences. It is generally assumed that they have developed from historically prior… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 287] 2025. ix, 188 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 123] 2025. xxii, 224 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages
Edited by Alessandro Carlucci and Jerzy Nykiel
This volume consists of corpus-based analyses of progressive aspect constructions in Germanic and Romance. By adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical frameworks, these studies provide valuable insights into the development, grammaticalization and use of various progressive structures… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 236] 2025. xi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Register and Professional Discourse
Edited by Shelley Staples and Gavin Brookes
Special issue of Register Studies 7:1 (2025) v, 160 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
Edited by David Lorenz and David Tizón-Couto
Special issue of Functions of Language 32:1 (2025) v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words: A sociolinguistic exploration
Łukasz Zarzycki
Swearing plays an important role in everyday language. We swear in the streets, at school, universities, at work and at home, on the means of transport, with family and friends. People have used swear words for centuries and they will continue to use them. The Anatomy of Polish Offensive Words… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 53] 2024. xvii, 336 pp.
Other subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Challenges in Corpus Linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis
Edited by Mark Kaunisto and Marco Schilk
This book contributes to the discussion of challenges faced in different areas of corpus linguistics, namely the compilation, annotation, and analysis of linguistic corpora. In a field of growing corpus sizes and expanding possibilities of gathering data, some old issues persist, while at the same… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 118] 2024. vii, 172 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
Focusing on the growing trend of employing the present tense in storytelling, this book explores present-tense narrative in contemporary fiction. Using a corpus approach, speech, writing, and thought presentation in 21st-century present-tense narrative is compared with 20th-century past-tense… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 43] 2024. xx, 269 pp.
Other subjects Narrative Studies | Theoretical linguistics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Corpus-based Translation of Private Legal Documents
Patrizia Giampieri
Legal translation is hallmarked by peculiarities revolving around language intricacies, particular formulae, and system-specificity issues. At present, there is a spectrum of legal corpora dedicated to court-related topics and legislation, but there is no corpus composed of private legal documents… read more[Natural Language Processing, 15] 2024. ix, 337 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Translation Studies
Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
Edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer
This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 119] 2024. vi, 265 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Decolonising or Recolonising?: Generative AI through the eyes of applied linguists, language teachers, and learners
Edited by Toni Dobinson, Julian Chen and Carly Steele
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 47:3 (2024) v, 165 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers: A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions
Karin McClellan
Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 120] 2024. xix, 296 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures
Stefan Th. Gries
This book is an attempt to revisit the main specifically corpus-linguistic statistics/measures the field has been relying on for decades: frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness. The book first discusses the purpose of these measures and how they have been measured. Then, the book makes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 115] 2024. vii, 321 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
The Functions of Evidentiality
Edited by Eric Mélac and Pascale Leclercq
Special issue of Functions of Language 31:1 (2024) v, 114 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Investigating Wikipedia: Linguistic corpus building, exploration and analysis
Edited by Céline Poudat, Harald Lüngen and Laura Herzberg
The present volume is intended as a reference book on Wikipedia corpus studies, from corpus construction to exploration and analysis. Wikipedia is a complex object, difficult to manipulate for linguists and corpus researchers. In addition to the encyclopedic articles consulted by millions of users,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 121] 2024. vi, 264 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics
Learner Corpus Research for Pedagogical Purposes
Edited by Sandra Götz and Sylviane Granger
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 10:1 (2024) v, 240 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
The Present Perfect and the Preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: A corpus-based study of grammatical change
Xinyue Yao
This book examines developments in the use of the present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and contemporary English, with a focus on American and British English. Drawing on neo-Gricean pragmatics, it proposes a novel and principled analysis of the verb forms’ context-independent meanings… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 114] 2024. xvii, 235 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach
Elen Le Foll
This book provides a systematic, empirical account of the language typically presented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks, based on a large corpus of EFL textbooks used in secondary schools. A modified version of the Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) framework serves to examine… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 116] 2024. xix, 294 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach
Larissa Goulart
This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 117] 2024. xviii, 239 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy
The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles
Thi Ngoc Phuong Le, Minh Man Pham and Michael Barlow
This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational patterns of mechanical engineering… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 107] 2023. xiii, 320 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer
This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] 2023. xxii, 389 pp.
Other subjects Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches
Edited by Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer
Special issue of Functions of Language 30:1 (2023) v, 135 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope
Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] 2023. vii, 292 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy
Corpus Dialectology
Edited by Elissa Pustka, Carmen Quijada Van den Berghe and Verena Weiland
Corpus Dialectology combines the fields of corpus linguistics and dialectological mapping. It concerns documentation of linguistic variation and mapping of linguistic spaces and boundaries, while ascribing renewed importance to the methodology and the material itself, especially data processing and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 110] 2023. vi, 220 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the way for teaching, translation and professional communication
Edited by Marlén Izquierdo and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar
Cross-linguistic research is a fruitful field of language inquiry that has benefited enormously from the use of corpora. As sources of linguistic data of various kinds and as tools for language processing, corpora have shaped the development of cross-linguistic research, enabling both language… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 113] 2023. vi, 237 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
The Ditransitive Alternation in Present-Day German: A corpus-based analysis
Hilde De Vaere
The ditransitive (or “dative”) alternation is a much-studied phenomenon in contemporary linguistics. This monograph is the first to address the alternation in present-day written German from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. As well as providing a corpus-based analysis of extensively… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 6] 2023. xviii, 333 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space
Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö
As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. vi, 379 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language and Characterisation in Television Series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media
Monika Bednarek
This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 106] 2023. xii, 265 pp.
Language learning for language minority students in a globalized world
Edited by Mark Feng Teng and Fan Fang
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:2 (2023) v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Learner translation corpus research
Guest-edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 9:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
This scholarly edition invites us to reconsider our assumptions about the French language, by showcasing the oeuvre of one of the pioneers of diachronic Spoken French corpus linguistics, William J. Ashby, and the ground-breaking findings to come out of his influential Tours corpora (1976 & 1995),… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 226] 2023. xiv, 534 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Theme in English and German: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of clause openings in original and translated texts
Jonas Freiwald
This book represents a detailed discussion and corpus analysis of Theme in English and German originals and translations. The empirical results are based on thousands of clauses from four different registers, cover a variety of linguistic aspects including multiple Themes, marked Themes,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 112] 2023. xiii, 297 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | English linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change
Edited by Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert
This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 105] 2022. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz
This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 104] 2022. vi, 327 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse
Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen
The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives
Edited by Malte Rosemeyer
Special issue of Functions of Language 29:1 (2022) v, 141 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism: An empirical investigation of their conceptual motivation and their metaphoricity
Nina Julich-Warpakowski
The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results… read more[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 10] 2022. xiii, 247 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Register and social media
Edited by Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve
Special issue of Register Studies 4:2 (2022) v, 190 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time
Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education
Edited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark
In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use. This volume takes a three-fold perspective on DDL. It first looks at DDL and its role in informing language learning theory and how it might… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 102] 2021. ix, 255 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and French: From syntax to lexis and discourse
Maïté Dupont
Situated at the interface between corpus linguistics and Systemic Functional Linguistics, this volume focuses on conjunctive markers expressing contrast in English and French. The frequency and placement patterns of the markers are analysed using large corpora of texts from two written registers:… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 99] 2021. xvii, 436 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions
Edited by Wendy L. Bowcher and Tom Bartlett
Special issue of Functions of Language 28:3 (2021) v, 125 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations
Edited by Julia Lavid-López, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Corpus-based contrastive and translation research are areas that keep evolving in the digital age, as the range of new corpus resources and tools expands, opening up to different approaches and application contexts. The current book contains a selection of papers which focus on corpora and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 158] 2021. vi, 345 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 100] 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 119] 2021. v, 157 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] 2021. xi, 341 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Natural language processing for learner corpus research
Edited by Kristopher Kyle
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 7:1 (2021) v, 194 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French
Naomi Truan
This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the target, attention is given to the continuity between second and third… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 320] 2021. xvii, 279 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Problematizing Language Policy and Practice in EMI and Transnational Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by Curtis Green-Eneix, Peter I. De Costa and Wendy Li
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 44:2 (2021) v, 145 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Register in L1 and L2 Language Development
Edited by Bethany Gray and Jesse Egbert
Special issue of Register Studies 3:2 (2021) v, 122 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications
Edited by Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin and Karin Friberg Heppin
Large computational lexicons are central NLP resources. Swedish FrameNet++ aims to be a versatile full-scale lexical resource for NLP containing many kinds of linguistic information. Although focused on Swedish, this ongoing effort, which includes building a new Swedish framenet and recycling… read moreOther subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech, French, German, Mandarin, Norwegian and Swedish, all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 101] 2021. vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Inés Lareo and Gonzalo Camiña
“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here,… read more[Not in series, 237] 2021. xv, 310 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise
Edited by Ute Römer-Barron, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal
This volume showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by leading and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a wide range of corpora spanning first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise, containing texts… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 95] 2020. vi, 358 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Writing and literacy
Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 96] 2020. xii, 305 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The contributions in Corpus Approaches to Social Media address technical,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 98] 2020. vi, 210 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia
Edited by Alexandra Garcia Murrago, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 (2020) v, 119 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language: A corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.
Other subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English: A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers,… read more[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 9] 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Notes from the field on perspective-indexing constructions: Irregular shifts and perspective persistence
Edited by Stef Spronck, An Van linden, Caroline Gentens and María Sol Sansiñena
Special issue of Functions of Language 27:1 (2020) v, 112 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers. While this topic has already received considerable attention in the SLA literature, it features less… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 108] 2020. v, 161 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Visual Linguistics with R: A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on visualization in R, the book presents original case studies on… read more[Not in series, 228] 2020. ix, 258 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
This volume provides a diachronic and synchronic overview of linguistic variability and change in involved, speech-related and spoken texts in English. While previous works on the topic have focused on more limited time periods, this book covers data from the 16th century up to the present day. The… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 97] 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes
Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia
Corpus linguistics has become one of the most widely used methodologies across the different linguistic subdisciplines; especially the study of world-wide varieties of English uses corpus-based investigations as one of the chief methodologies. This volume comprises descriptions of the many new… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] 2019. ix, 403 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Other African languages | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus-based Approaches to Spoken L2 Production: Evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus
Edited by Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova and Tony McEnery
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 5:2 (2019) v, 166 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.
Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse
Edited by Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz
This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 305] 2019. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogies in Australian Higher Education
Edited by Paul J. Moore and Adriana Díaz
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:2 (2019) v, 100 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Learner Corpora and Language Teaching
Edited by Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee
While native corpora and corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used and applied for quite some time in the development of learning and teaching materials, learner corpora are only just beginning to impact the field of language teaching, testing and assessment. This volume helps to close… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 92] 2019. vi, 267 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching | Theoretical linguistics
Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 93] 2019. xiv, 222 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry
Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse
Special issue of Functions of Language 26:1 (2019) vi, 135 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
This volume assesses the state of the art of parallel corpus research as a whole, reporting on advances in both recent developments of parallel corpora – with some particular references to comparable corpora as well– and in ways of exploiting them for a variety of purposes. The first part of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 90] 2019. ix, 301 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Translation Studies
Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French
Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French. Theoretical foundations and methodological choices are presented and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 89] 2019. xv, 396 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Phonology | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of… read more[Not in series, 225] 2019. vii, 278 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Jukka Tyrkkö
The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 82] 2018. vii, 313 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Building and Using the Siarad Corpus: Bilingual conversations in Welsh and English
Margaret Deuchar, Peredur Webb-Davies and Kevin Donnelly
This book is a research monograph divided into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 81] 2018. vii, 199 pp.
Other subjects Celtic languages | English linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Compliments and Positive Assessments: Sequential organization in multi-party conversations
Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf
Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context, considering compliment form, as part of a Positive Remark continuum, with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 289] 2018. xv, 253 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert
Edited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg
With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 87] 2018. vi, 261 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change
Edited by Richard J. Whitt
This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the intersecting fields of corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and genre-based studies of language usage. Papers in this collection are devoted to presenting relevant methods pertinent to corpus-based studies of the connection between… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 85] 2018. viii, 337 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Genre and Disciplinarity
Edited by Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Price
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:2 (2018) v, 120 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond
Martin Weisser
This book introduces a methodology and research tool (DART) that make it possible to carry out advanced corpus pragmatics research using dialogue corpora enriched with pragmatics-relevant annotations. It first explores the general use of spoken corpora for pragmatics research, as well as issues… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 84] 2018. xiv, 294 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Interpersonal Meaning: Systemic Functional Linguistics perspectives
Edited by J.R. Martin
Special issue of Functions of Language 25:1 (2018) v, 204 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Observing Eurolects: Corpus analysis of linguistic variation in EU law
Edited by Laura Mori
Focusing on the multi-faceted topic of Eurolects, this volume brings together knowledge and methodologies from various disciplines, including sociolinguistics, legal linguistics, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. The legislative varieties of eleven EU official and working languages… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 86] 2018. xiv, 395 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Forensic & legal linguistics | Language policy | Translation Studies
Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
The book is a comprehensive corpus study of analogical developments in the nominal morphology of four Northern West Germanic languages: Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Low Franconian. It examines the patterns of reorganisation of the nominal paradigms, focusing on the analogical… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Tag Questions in Conversation: A typology of their interactional and stance meanings
Ditte Kimps
This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 83] 2018. xviii, 250 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4:2 (2018) v, 158 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Cross-linguistic Correspondences: From lexis to genre
Edited by Thomas Egan and Hildegunn Dirdal
Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 191] 2017. vii, 298 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia
Edited by Antonia Rubino, Antonella Strambi and Vincenza Tudini
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 (2017) v, 109 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives
Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos
Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 70] 2017. viii, 471 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings: Learner corpus and experimental evidence on passive constructions
Verena Möller
Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings builds a bridge between Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research (LCR) methodologies to take the evaluation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to a new level. The study innovates in two main ways. First, it is based… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 80] 2017. xx, 417 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Lexical Priming: Applications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora
Edited by Jürgen Trouvain, Frank Zimmerer, Bernd Möbius, Mária Gósy and Anne Bonneau
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:2 (2017) v, 176 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Specialised Translation in Spain: Institutional dimensions
Edited by José Santaemilia-Ruiz and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller
Special issue of Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 30:2 (2017) vi, 240 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Translation Studies
Stance, resonance and the power of engagement
Edited by Bracha Nir and Elisabeth Zima
Special issue of Functions of Language 24:1 (2017) v, 137 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy. incl. CD-rom: A Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and… read more[Not in series, 198] 2016. xi, 182 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues
Edited by Rachel Klassen, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino
Special issue of Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 29:2 (2016) vi, 307 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Translation Studies
Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext
Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic
The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 23] 2016. xix, 419 pp.
Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar
Edited by Jiyoung Yoon and Stefan Th. Gries
This volume brings together empirical Construction Grammar studies to (i) promote cross-fertilization between researchers interested in constructional approaches on various languages, and (ii) further the growing trend towards empirically rigorous research that takes seriously a commitment not only… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 19] 2016. vi, 268 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards
Cameron Smart
Discourse Reflexivity in Linear Unit Grammar: The case of IMDb message boards represents a significant landmark. Not only is it the first in-depth corpus-based study to be based on Linear Unit Grammar, it is also the first study to present a unified model of both Linear Unit Grammar and Linear Unit… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 76] 2016. xvi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Syntax
Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations
Anna Cichosz, Jerzy Gaszewski and Piotr Pęzik
This book is the first comprehensive corpus study of element order in Old English and Old High German, which brings to light numerous differences between these two closely related languages. The study’s innovative approach relies on translated texts, which allows the authors to tackle the problem… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 28] 2016. xvii, 424 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Syntax | Translation Studies
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage
Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer
Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations
Ying Wang
This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 77] 2016. xii, 249 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech
Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková
A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index
Other subjects Dictionaries | Language acquisition | Lexicography
Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte
Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:2 (2016) v, 222 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis
Charlotte Taylor
This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 267] 2016. xiii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Postgraduate Writing in a Globalised World
Edited by Emmaline Lear and Elke Stracke
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 39:2 (2016) v, 98 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Spanish Learner Corpus Research: Current trends and future perspectives
Edited by Margarita Alonso-Ramos
The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 78] 2016. vi, 337 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Romance linguistics
The Structure of the English NP: Synchronic and diachronic explorations
Edited by Kristin Davidse
Special issue of Functions of Language 23:1 (2016) v, 147 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Third Person References: Forms and functions in two spoken genres of Spanish
Jenny Dumont
This volume, a case study on the grammar of third person references in two genres of spoken Ecuadorian Spanish, examines from a discourse-analytic perspective how genre affects linguistic patterns and how researchers can look for and interpret genre effects. This marks a timely contribution to… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 71] 2016. ix, 179 pp.
Other subjects Functional linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives
Florent Perek
The argument structure of verbs, defined as the part of grammar that deals with how participants in verbal events are expressed in clauses, is a classical topic in linguistics that has received considerable attention in the literature. This book investigates argument structure in English from a… read more[Constructional Approaches to Language, 17] 2015. x, 246 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston
Edited by Nicholas Groom, Maggie Charles and Suganthi John
Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 73] 2015. xvi, 310 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber
Edited by Viviana Cortes and Eniko Csomay
This volume comprises nine contributions that were written by up-and-coming corpus-based researchers with varied areas of expertise, who were all disciples of Douglas Biber sometime in the past two decades. These papers cover a wide variety of linguistic analyses and describe the principles of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 66] 2015. xix, 219 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics
Corpus-based Studies of Lesser-described Languages: The CorpAfroAs corpus of spoken AfroAsiatic languages
Edited by Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove and Dominique Caubet
This volume presents new findings based on the analysis of spoken corpora in thirteen different Afro-Asiatic languages – a unique endeavor in the domain of lesser-described languages. It will be of interest to corpus linguists, general linguists, typologists, and linguists specializing in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 68] 2015. vi, 338 pp.
Other subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Theoretical linguistics
Crime and Corpus: The linguistic representation of crime in the press
Ulrike Tabbert
Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance with societal discourse surrounding this issue. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Linguistics, Criminology, and Media… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 20] 2015. xvii, 181 pp.
Other subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical literature & literary studies
Current Issues in Phraseology
Edited by Sebastian Hoffmann, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand
In this stimulating collection of papers, leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 74] 2015. viii, 166 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses
Shelley Staples
The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses is the first book to quantitatively examine a wide range of linguistic features in a corpus of interactions between nurses and standardized patients. The main goal of this book is to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 72] 2015. xiv, 263 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Grammatical Change in English World-Wide
Edited by Peter Collins
The contributions to this volume apply and extend the techniques of corpus linguistics and diachronic linguistics to the challenge of describing and explaining grammatical change in varieties of English world-wide. The book is divided into two parts, with ten chapters on ‘Inner Circle’ varieties… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 67] 2015. vi, 488 pp.
Jamaican Creole Goes Web: Sociolinguistic styling and authenticity in a digital 'Yaad'
Andrea Moll
Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic… read more[Creole Language Library, 49] 2015. viii, 294 pp.
Other subjects Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment
Edited by Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz
The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Identifying… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 70] 2015. vi, 220 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
The Lexis and Lexicogrammar of Sri Lankan English
Tobias Bernaisch
This book offers the first in-depth corpus-based description of written Sri Lankan English. In comparison to British and Indian English, lexical and lexicogrammatical features of Sri Lankan English are analysed in a complex corpus environment comprising data from the respective components of the… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G54] 2015. xiv, 248 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: When discipline tells only part of the story
Bethany Gray
Linguistic Variation in Research Articles investigates the linguistic characteristics of academic research articles, going beyond a traditional analysis of the generically-defined research article to take into account varied realizations of research articles within and across disciplines. It… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 71] 2015. xiv, 222 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora for Data-driven Learning
Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Alex Boulton
In recent years, corpora have found their way into language instruction, albeit often indirectly, through their role in syllabus and course design and in the production of teaching materials and other resources. An alternative and more innovative use is for teachers and students alike to explore… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 69] 2015. vii, 312 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language teaching
Teachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts
Edited by Clea Schmidt and Antoinette Gagné
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials: Corpus, constraints, developments
Sandra Mollin
This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 64] 2014. x, 254 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns
Edited by Kristin Davidse, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte
The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 63] 2014. viii, 358 pp.
Other subjects Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Giuseppina Balossi
This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 18] 2014. xxi, 277 pp.
Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy
Edited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp.
Other subjects Cognitive linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Andreas H. Jucker and Jukka Tuominen
Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] 2014. viii, 335 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English
Glenn Hadikin
The English language is changing every day and it is us – the individual speakers and writers – that drive those changes in small ways by choosing to use certain strings of words over others. This book discusses and describes some of the choices made by speakers from South Korea by examining the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 62] 2014. xiv, 192 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing: Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching
Danica Salazar
This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 65] 2014. ix, 212 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia
Edited by Ingrid Piller
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
SMS Communication: A linguistic approach
Edited by Louise-Amélie Cougnon and Cédrick Fairon
The media often point an accusatory finger at new technologies; they suggest that there is always a loss of information or quality, or even that computer-mediated communication is destroying language. Most linguists, on the contrary, are firmly convinced that it is better to consider language as an… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 61] 2014. viii, 267 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies
Edited by Tommaso Raso and Heliana Mello
The authors of this book share a common interest in the following topics: the importance of corpora compilation for the empirical study of human language; the importance of pragmatic categories such as emotion, attitude, illocution and information structure in linguistic theory; and a passionate… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 61] 2014. vii, 498 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg
Contrastive studies have experienced a dramatic revival in the last decades. By combining the methodological advantages of computer corpus linguistics and the possibility of contrasting texts in two or more languages, the structure and use of languages can be explored with greater accuracy, detail… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 54] 2013. x, 295 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data
Edited by Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier and Paul Thompson
This book is a critical appraisal of recent developments in corpus linguistics for the analysis of written and spoken learner data. The twelve papers cover an introductory critical appraisal of learner corpus data compilation and development (section 1); issues in data compilation, annotation and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 59] 2013. vi, 314 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Language teaching | Multilingualism
Biomedical English: A corpus-based approach
Edited by Isabel Verdaguer, Natalia Judith Laso and Danica Salazar
The corpus-based studies in this volume explore biomedical research writing in English from a variety of perspectives. The articles in this collection delve into the lexicographic issues involved in building an electronic database of collocations and lexical bundles, offer insight on the teaching… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 56] 2013. xiii, 214 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Lexicography | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis
Edited by Hilde Hasselgård, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
A hallmark of corpus linguistics is the study of patterns of language use. The studies presented in this volume all use corpora to investigate patterns of lexis from various perspectives. The first section, “Sequence and Order”, presents theoretical and practical aspects of the linguist’s task of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 57] 2013. viii, 299 pp.
Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora
Edited by Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylvie De Cock
The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers. They show, among others, that such phenomena can be influenced by factors like… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 52] 2013. v, 172 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Psycholinguistics
Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
Sandra Götz
This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Interference and normalization in genre-controlled multilingual corpora
Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer
Capturing the distinction between translated vs. original (i.e. non-translated) language varieties holds centre stage in corpus-based translation studies and related fields such as supervised machine learning. A similar question also holds for native vs. proficient non-native speakers' production.… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 27] 2013. v, 134 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Multilingualism | Translation Studies
Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis
Keiko Tsuchiya
How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 236] 2013. xv, 234 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The interplay of embodiment and cultural models
James J. Mischler, III
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents, and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and empirical “mixed methods” design, employing… read more[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 3] 2013. xv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
Alan Partington, Alison Duguid and Charlotte Taylor
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Patterns in Contrast
Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling
Combining the fields of phraseology and contrastive analysis, this book describes how patterns, defined as recurrent word-combinations with semantic unity, behave cross-linguistically. As the contrastive approach adopted in the book relies on translations and a bidirectional corpus model, the first… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 58] 2013. xiv, 257 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Ressources Lexicales: Contenu, construction, utilisation, évaluation
Sous la direction de Núria Gala et Michael Zock
Les ressources lexicales (dictionnaires, bases de données, thesaurus, etc.) rassemblent des connaissances sur les mots, leurs sens et leurs usages. Si pendant des siècles elles ont été tributaires de l'imprimerie et du format textuel, il existe de nos jours une grande variété d'outils et de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 30] 2013. xii, 364 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Theoretical linguistics
Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective
Edited by Gert Webelhuth, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker
This book represents the state of the art on rightward movement in one thematically coherent volume. It documents the growing importance of the combination of empirical and theoretical work in linguistic analysis. Several contributions argue that rightward movement is a means of reducing… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 200] 2013. viii, 476 pp.
Other subjects Generative linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom
Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Julia Bamford, Silvia Cavalieri and Giuliana Diani
This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen… read more[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.
Other subjects Dialogue studies | Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900. Including CD-Rom: A Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA)
Edited by Isabel Moskowich and Begoña Crespo
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700… read more[Not in series, 173] 2012. xi, 240 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics
Edited by Stefania Marzo, Kris Heylen and Gert de Sutter
Contrastive Linguistics, like other linguistic disciplines, is becoming more and more data-oriented, relying increasingly on the statistical analysis of corpus data to reveal and investigate the similarities and dissimilarities between languages. The volume Corpus Studies in Contrastive Linguistics… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 43] 2012. v, 171 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics
Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and applications
Edited by Alex Boulton, Shirley Carter-Thomas and Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet
These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The corpora used range from very large published corpora to small tailor-made collections of written and spoken text, as well as parallel and contrastive… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 52] 2012. ix, 306 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Describing School Achievement in Asian Languages for Diverse Learner Groups
Edited by Angela Scarino and Catherine Elder
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian
Edited by Gisle Andersen
This book describes new methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents recent research based on the Norwegian Newspaper Corpus. This is a large monitor corpus of contemporary Norwegian language, compiled through daily harvesting of web newspapers. The book gives an… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 49] 2012. vi, 356 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach
Edited by Manfred Markus, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson
This book brings together a variety of approaches to English corpus linguistics and shows how corpus methodologies can contribute to the linking of diachronic and synchronic studies. The articles in this volume investigate historical changes in the English language as well as specific aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 50] 2012. viii, 287 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis
Edited by Thomas Schmidt and Kai Wörner
This volume deals with different aspects of the creation and use of multilingual corpora. The term 'multilingual corpus' is understood in a comprehensive sense, meaning any systematic collection of empirical language data enabling linguists to carry out analyses of multilingual individuals,… read more[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 14] 2012. xiii, 407 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Multilingualism
Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies: A practical guide to descriptive translation research
Edited by Michael P. Oakes and Meng Ji
This is a comprehensive guidebook to the quantitative methods needed for Corpus-Based Translation Studies (CBTS). It provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in Corpus Linguistics which can be used in translation research. In Part 1, Theoretical Explorations, the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 51] 2012. x, 361 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Adjective Complementation: An empirical analysis of adjectives followed by that-clauses
Ilka Mindt
This is the first empirical study to focus on adjectives complemented by that-clauses. The in-depth analysis of more than 50,000 cases taken from the British National Corpus gives comprehensive insights into hitherto neglected relations of lexis and grammar. The result of this corpus-driven study… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 42] 2011. vii, 238 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics
Edited by Michael Walsh
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Colouring Meaning: Collocation and connotation in figurative language
Gill Philip
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43] 2011. xiii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus-based Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Wolfgang Viereck
Nowadays, linguists do not question the existence of synchronic variation, and the dichotomy between synchrony and diachrony. They recognize that synchrony can be motivated regionally (diatopic variation), sociolinguistically (diastratic variation), or stylistically (diaphasic variation). But,… read more[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3] 2011. vi, 293 pp.
Other subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Exploring Second-Language Varieties of English and Learner Englishes: Bridging a paradigm gap
Edited by Joybrato Mukherjee and Marianne Hundt
The articles in this volume are intended to bridge what Sridhar and Sridhar (1986) have called the 'paradigm gap' between traditional SLA research on the one hand and research into institutionalised second-language varieties in former colonial territories on the other. Since both learner Englishes… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 44] 2011. vi, 222 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Multilingualism | Theoretical linguistics
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics is a collection of interviews with fourteen well-known researchers in the field of linguistics. Each interview consists of a set of ten questions: the first seven are common to all contributors while the last three are connected to the research experience of each… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 48] 2011. xvi, 256 pp.
Researching Specialized Languages
Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes
The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 47] 2011. viii, 238 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Lexicography | Pragmatics | Terminology
Structural Nativization in Indian English Lexicogrammar
Marco Schilk
This book contains the first in-depth corpus-based description of structural nativization at the lexis-grammar interface in Indian English, the largest institutionalized second-language variety of English world-wide. For a set of three ditransitive verbs give, send and offer –collocational… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 46] 2011. xiii, 182 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Syntax
A Taste for Corpora: In honour of Sylviane Granger
Edited by Fanny Meunier, Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Magali Paquot
The eleven contributions to this volume, written by expert corpus linguists, tackle corpora from a wide range of perspectives and aim to shed light on the numerous linguistic and pedagogical uses to which corpora can be put. They present cutting-edge research in the authors’ respective domain of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 45] 2011. xv, 295 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England: Including a CD-ROM containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED)
Merja Kytö, Peter J. Grund and Terry Walker
Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England examines various aspects of the witness depositions comprising An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) on the accompanying CD-ROM.ETED combines modern corpus linguistic methodology and editorial theory, and makes available… read more[Not in series, 162] 2011. xxi, 360 pp. (Incl. CD-Rom)
Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk
Bróna Murphy
Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 38] 2010. xviii, 231 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus, Cognition and Causative Constructions
Gaëtanelle Gilquin
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 39] 2010. xvii, 326 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Early Modern English Medical Texts: Corpus description and studies
Edited by Irma Taavitsainen and Päivi Pahta
The corpus Early Modern English Medical Texts (EMEMT) is the second component of the Corpus of Early English Medical Writing (CEEM), a three-part series of historical corpora of medical writing from 1375-1800. EMEMT contains a two-million word representative sample of the entire field of English… read more[Not in series, 160] 2010. xv, 370 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
Heterogeneity in Word-Formation Patterns: A corpus-based analysis of suffixation with -ee and its productivity in English
Susanne Mühleisen
Postulated word-formation rules often exclude formations that can nevertheless be found in actual usage. This book presents an in-depth investigation of a highly heterogeneous word-formation pattern in English: the formation of nouns by suffixation with -ee. Rather than relying on a single semantic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 118] 2010. xiii, 245 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Keyness in Texts
Edited by Marina Bondi and Mike Scott
This is corpus linguistics with a text linguistic focus. The volume concerns lexical inequality, the fact that some words and phrases share the quality of being key – and thereby reflect or promote important themes – in some textual contexts, while others do not. The patterning of words which… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 41] 2010. vi, 251 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Lexicography | Pragmatics
Patterns, Meaningful Units and Specialized Discourses
Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze
This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 22] 2010. v, 124 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy
Edited by Bronwen Patricia Dyson
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Stylistic Use of Phraseological Units in Discourse
Anita Naciscione
Stylistic Use of Phraseaological Units in Discourse received honourable mention of the ESSE Book Award 2012 in the field of English Language and Linguistics.This interdisciplinary study presents the cutting-edge state of theoretical and applied research in the fascinating field of phraseology. The… read moreOther subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication
Edited by John Read and Ute Knoch
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
ConcGram 1.0: A phraseological search engine
Chris Greaves
ConcGram 1.0 is a corpus linguistics software package which is specifically designed to find all the co-occurrences of words in a text or corpus irrespective of variation. The software finds the co-occurrences fully automatically, in other words, the user inputs no prior search commands. These… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics Software, 1] 2009. CD-Rom
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Electronic/Multimedia Products
Corpora and Language Teaching
Edited by Karin Aijmer
The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 33] 2009. viii, 232 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co.In this new edition of TUFS Studies in Linguistics, we aim to showcase the various linguistics research conducted at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. In this first volume, we report on the international… read more[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1] 2009. vi, 399 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus Use and Translating: Corpus use for learning to translate and learning corpus use to translate
Edited by Allison Beeby, Patricia Rodríguez-Inés and Pilar Sánchez-Gijón
Professional translators are increasingly dependent on electronic resources, and trainee translators need to develop skills that allow them to make the best use of these resources. The aim of this book is to show how CULT (Corpus Use for Learning to Translate) methodologies can be used to prepare… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 82] 2009. x, 151 pp.
Other subjects Translation Studies
Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface
Edited by Ute Römer-Barron and Rainer Schulze
This volume showcases studies that recognize and provide evidence for the inseparability of lexis and grammar. The contributors explore in what ways these two areas, often treated separately in linguistic theory and description, form an organic whole. The papers in Section I (Setting the Scene)… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 35] 2009. vi, 321 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers: A corpus-based study of cross-cultural interaction
Eric Friginal
The Language of Outsourced Call Centers is the first book to explore a large-scale corpus representing the typical kinds of interactions and communicative tasks in outsourced call centers located in the Philippines and serving American customers. The specific goals of this book are to conduct a… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 34] 2009. xxii, 319 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg
Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 17] 2009. vi, 124 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A corpus stylistic approach
Michael Toolan
One of our most valuable capacities is our ability partly to predict what will come next in a text. But linguistic understanding of this remains very limited, especially in genres such as the short story where there is a staging of the clash between predictability and unpredictability. This book… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 6] 2009. xi, 212 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
New Approaches in Text Linguistics
Edited by Sylvie Mellet and Dominique Longrée
Over the last years, research in text linguistics has yielded insights into different levels of methodological reflection and practice, resulting in new issues for investigation. On the one hand, the development of computerized corpora and “hypertextual” reading has reminded researchers that the… read more[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 23] 2009. 214 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Register Variation in Indian English
Chandrika Balasubramanian
Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 37] 2009. xviii, 284 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Television Dialogue: The sitcom Friends vs. natural conversation
Paulo Quaglio
This book explores a virtually untapped, yet fascinating research area: television dialogue. It reports on a study comparing the language of the American situation comedy Friends to natural conversation. Transcripts of the television show and the American English conversation portion of the Longman… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 36] 2009. xiii, 165 pp
Other subjects Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
John Sinclair’s work is widely known and has had a far-reaching influence, particularly in the areas of corpus linguistics, lexis, phraseology, lexicography, grammar, and discourse analysis. This collection of papers, written by former colleagues at Birmingham University, looks at some key writings… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 18] 2009. viii, 124 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Corpora and Discourse: The challenges of different settings
Edited by Annelie Ädel and Randi Reppen
This book brings together contributions from a diverse collection of scholars who explore different ways of combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis, studying discourse at the prosodic, lexical, and textual levels. Both spoken and written discourse are investigated in a variety of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 31] 2008. vi, 295 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives
Edited by Heike Behrens
Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 6] 2008. xxx, 234 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics
Corpus and Context: Investigating pragmatic functions in spoken discourse
Svenja Adolphs
Corpus and Context explores the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics by discussing possible frameworks for analysing utterance function on the basis of spoken corpora. The book articulates the challenges and opportunities associated with a change of focus in corpus research, from… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 30] 2008. xi, 151 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics
Corpus-based Analyses of the Problem–Solution Pattern: A phraseological approach
Lynne Flowerdew
This book reports research on the Problem-Solution rhetorical pattern, which has to date received very little attention in corpus-based studies. Insights from genre analysis and systemic-functional grammar are also applied to the analysis of the Problem-Solution pattern, thus moving towards a more… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 29] 2008. xi, 179 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic)
Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves and Martin Warren
The book is the first to apply David Brazil’s Discourse Intonation systems (prominence, tone, key and termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 32] 2008. xi, 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Discourse studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus evidence on English past and present
Edited by Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Minna Korhonen
Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ‘life cycle’ of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 2] 2008. viii, 339 pp.
English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities
Edited by Michael Clyne and Farzad Sharifian †
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure
Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
Discourse on the Move is the first book-length exploration of how corpus-based methods can be used for discourse analysis, applied to the description of discourse organization. The primary goal is to bring these two analytical perspectives together: undertaking a detailed discourse analysis of each… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 28] 2007. xii, 289 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Language as Action
Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
The Language of Business Studies Lectures: A corpus-assisted analysis
Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli
New opportunities in the global workplace have heightened interest in business studies. In response to this trend, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a corpus of authentic business studies lectures, focusing on spoken, academic, disciplinary and professional features (e.g., speech rate,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 157] 2007. xvi, 236 pp.
Other subjects Pragmatics
Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish
Stefan Schneider
While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 27] 2007. xiv, 237 pp.
Other subjects Phonology | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax
Seeing through Multilingual Corpora: On the use of corpora in contrastive studies
Stig Johansson
Through electronic corpora we can observe patterns which we were unaware of before or only vaguely glimpsed. The availability of multilingual corpora has led to a renewal of contrastive studies. We gain new insight into similarities and differences between languages, at the same time as the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 26] 2007. xxii, 355 pp.
Other subjects Comparative linguistics | Translation Studies
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Edited by Wolfgang Teubert
The contributions in this volume (first published as a Special Issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2001)) evolved from the EU-funded project Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) and deal with various aspects of multilingual corpus linguistics. The topics… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 8] 2007. x, 162 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Multilingualism | Terminology
Address from a World Perspective
Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Linear Unit Grammar: Integrating speech and writing
John McH. Sinclair and Anna Mauranen
People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 25] 2006. xxii, 185 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English
Annelie Ädel
The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse – commentary on the ongoing discourse – is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 24] 2006. x, 243 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition
Spoken Language Corpus and Linguistic Informatics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima and Toshihiro Takagaki
Linguistic Informatics is a research field named by the Center of Excellence (COE) Program: Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI), which aims to systematically integrate studies in computer science, linguistics, and language education. The first part of this volume contains three lectures on… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 5] 2006. vi, 434 pp.
Other subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education
Mike Scott and Christopher Tribble
Textual Patterns introduces corpus resources, tools and analytic frameworks of central relevance to language teachers and teacher educators. Specifically it shows how key word analysis, combined with the systematic study of vocabulary and genre, can form the basis for a corpus informed approach to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 22] 2006. x, 203 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Language teaching | Pragmatics
C-ORAL-ROM: Integrated Reference Corpora for Spoken Romance Languages
Edited by Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia
The C-ORAL-ROM book and DVD provide a unique set of comparable corpora of spontaneous speech for the main Romance languages, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The corpora are accompanied by comparative linguistic studies, models and standard linguistic measures of spoken language variability. read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 15] 2005. xviii, 304 pp. (incl. DVD)
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Romance linguistics
Collocations in a Learner Corpus
Nadja Nesselhauf
Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 14] 2005. xii, 331 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition
Corpus-Based Approaches to Sentence Structures
Edited by Toshihiro Takagaki, Susumu Zaima, Yoichiro Tsuruga, Francisco Moreno-Fernández and Yuji Kawaguchi
This is the second volume of the series "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics", a product of the 21st century COE program held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). The project has an objective to realize an integration of theoretical and applied linguistics on the basis of computer sciences. read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 2] 2005. vi, 317 pp.
Other subjects Theoretical linguistics
English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach
Michaela Mahlberg
This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 20] 2005. x, 206 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics
Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning
Laura Gavioli
This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 21] 2005. xi, 176 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching
Linguistic Informatics – State of the Art and the Future: The first international conference on Linguistic Informatics
Edited by Yuji Kawaguchi, Susumu Zaima, Toshihiro Takagaki, Kohji Shibano and Mayumi Usami
It is widely believed that linguistic theories and information technology have considerably influenced foreign language education. However, the collaboration of these three domains has not brought about new scientific results. It it thus, our attempt to realize an integration of theoretical and… read more[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 1] 2005. viii, 363 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
Alice Deignan
Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 6] 2005. x, 236 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language | Pragmatics | Semantics
Middle English Medical Texts
Compiled by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta and Martti Mäkinen
Middle English Medical Texts (MEMT) is an electronic corpus including 86 texts and 495,322 words from three traditions of medical writing (surgical treatises, specialized texts, and remedy books) from 1375 to 1500, and an appendix of recipes from c. 1330. MEMT provides a new research resource for… read more[Not in series, 131] 2005. CD-ROM
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics
Ute Römer-Barron
This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Language teaching | Syntax
Strategies in Academic Discourse
Edited by Elena Tognini-Bonelli and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti
This book focuses on theoretical and descriptive issues and techniques in the study of text and discourse. Drawing on a large number of corpora containing academic language, from spoken language to published research papers, the authors approach their subject from multiple angles: The academic… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 19] 2005. xii, 212 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Aspect in Mandarin Chinese: A corpus-based study
Richard Xiao † and Tony McEnery
Chinese, as an aspect language, has played an important role in the development of aspect theory. This book is a systematic and structured exploration of the linguistic devices that Mandarin Chinese employs to express aspectual meanings. The work presented here is the first corpus-based account of… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 73] 2004. x, 305 pp.
Other subjects Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Corpora and Language Learners
Edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart
Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 17] 2004. vi, 312 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching
Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Edited by Hans Lindquist and Christian Mair
Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 13] 2004. xiv, 264 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics
Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora
Edited by Karin Aijmer and Anna-Brita Stenström
This book brings together a number of empirical studies that use corpora to study discourse patterns in speech and writing. It explores new trends in the area of text and discourse characterized by the alliance between text linguistics and areas such as corpus linguistics, genre analysis, literary… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 120] 2004. viii, 273 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics
Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton
This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching
Edited by John McH. Sinclair
After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 12] 2004. viii, 307 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching
Corpus Presenter: Software for language analysis. With a manual and A Corpus of Irish English as sample data
Raymond Hickey
The current book together with the accompanying CD-ROM forms the Corpus Presenter suite which can be used to compile text corpora and to carry out retrieval tasks on any corpus or selection of text files, no matter what their source or how they are organised. The suite is designed to have a… read more[Not in series, 122] 2003. x, 292 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Other subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products
Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson
This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice. Throughout the volume, emphasis is also placed on practical,… read more[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 6] 2002. x, 246 pp.
Other subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching
Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences
Geoff Barnbrook
Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Lexicography | Terminology
English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a corpus
Karin Aijmer
There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 10] 2002. xvi, 298 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics
Exploring Natural Language: Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English
Gerald Nelson, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts
ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G29] 2002. xviii, 344 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. Volume 2: Mathematics and computability of language
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson
Zellig Harris had a profound influence in formal systems and applied mathematics, in demonstrations of the computability of language, and in informatics. Volume 2 begins with a commentary by André Lentin on Harris's grounding in constructivist, intuitionist mathematics, drawing a parallel between… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 229] 2002. xix, 312 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Natural language processing | Theoretical linguistics
The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st century. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Bruce E. Nevin and Stephen B. Johnson
Zellig Harris opened many lines of research in language, information, and culture. In these two volumes an international array of scholars describe Harris’s work, further developments, and relate this work to that of others.Volume 1 focuses on the importance of Harris’s work in the philosophy of… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 228-229] 2002. xxxvi, 323 pp. & xx, 312 pp.
Other subjects History of linguistics | Natural language processing | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
This volume takes stock of current research in contrastive lexical studies. It reflects the growing interest in corpus-based approaches to the study of lexis, in particular the use of multilingual corpora, shared by researchers working in widely differing fields — contrastive linguistics,… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 7] 2002. x, 339 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Semantics | Translation Studies
Literacies: Tertiary contexts
Compiled and edited by Zosia Golebiowski
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 (2002) vii, 148 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Trends in Teenage Talk: Corpus compilation, analysis and findings
Anna-Brita Stenström, Gisle Andersen and Ingrid Kristine Hasund
Teenage talk is fascinating, though so far teenage language has not been given the attention in linguistic research that it merits. The dearth of investigations into teenage language is due in part to under representation in language corpora. With the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT)… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 8] 2002. xii, 229 pp.
Other subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation illustrates the ways in which linguistic variation can be explored through corpus-based investigation. Two major kinds of research questions are considered: variation in the use of a particular linguistic feature, and variation across dialects or… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 9] 2002. xii, 275 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Corpus Linguistics at Work
Elena Tognini-Bonelli
The book offers a combined discussion of the main theoretical, methodological and application issues related to corpus work. Thus, starting from the definition of what is a corpus and why reading a corpus calls for a different methodology from reading a text, the underlying assumptions behind… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 6] 2001. xii, 224 pp.
Recent Advances in Computational Terminology
Edited by Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme
This first collection of selected articles from researchers in automatic analysis, storage, and use of terminology, and specialists in applied linguistics, computational linguistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence offers new insights on computational terminology. The recent… read more[Natural Language Processing, 2] 2001. xviii, 379 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography | Semantics | Terminology
Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice
Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry
Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 5] 2001. xxiv, 419 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Language teaching
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Wolfgang Teubert
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6:SI (2001) iv, 170 pp.
Other subjects Lexicography
Corpus-based and Computational Approaches to Discourse Anaphora
Edited by Simon Philip Botley and Tony McEnery
Discourse anaphora is a challenging linguistic phenomenon that has given rise to research in fields as diverse as linguistics, computational linguistics and cognitive science. Because of the diversity of approaches these fields bring to the anaphora problem, the editors of this volume argue that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 3] 2000. vi, 257 pp.
Other subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics
Defining Standards and Monitoring Progress in Learning Languages other than English
Guest-edited by Catherine Elder
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 23:2 (2000) iii, 90 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Pattern Grammar: A corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English
Susan Hunston and Gill Francis
This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 4] 2000. xiv, 288 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
Animacy and Reference: A cognitive approach to corpus linguistics
Mutsumi Yamamoto
The concept of ‘animacy’ concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like.In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy,… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 46] 1999. xviii, 278 pp.
Other subjects Cognition and language
New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in morphosyntactic variation
Marianne Hundt
New Zealand English (NZE) is one of the younger post-colonial varieties of English. It is therefore not surprising that previous research focused on lexical and phonological aspects of NZE and practically neglected grammatical peculiarities. New Zealand English Grammar — Fact or Fiction? presents a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G23] 1998. xvi, 212 pp.
Other subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching
Alan Partington
Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem.… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 2] 1998. x, 162 pp.
Terms in Context
Jennifer Pearson
Terms in Context applies the methodology that has been developed over the last two decades in corpus linguistics to the relatively new and still little developed field of corpus-based terminography. While corpora are already being used by some terminologists for the identification of terms and… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 1] 1998. xii, 246 pp.
Other subjects Terminology
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German: A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg
Rosina L. Lippi-Green
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 119] 1994. xiv, 150 pp.
Other subjects Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language Testing Colloquium: Selected papers from a Colloquium at the Horwood Language Center, University of Melbourne, 24–25 August, 1987
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 11:2 (1988) vii, 98 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Australian Applied Language Studies
Edited by Tim F. McNamara
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Literacy
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 9:2 (1986) v, 157 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Current Issues in First and Second Language Development: Proceedings of the ALAA Working Group on Language Development, Alice Springs, August 1984
Edited by Howard Nicholas
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 8:2 (1985) iii, 151 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Language Handicap
Guest-edited by Ann Zubrick
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (1984) iv, 75 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Foreign Language Teaching
Edited by T.J. Quinn
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 6:2 (1983) iv, 103 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy
Language Planning
Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2 (1982) viii, 159 pp.
Other subjects Applied linguistics | Discourse studies | Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Translation Studies | Writing and literacy