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SCL 95
Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic WritingEffects of discipline, register, and writer expertise
Edited by Ute Römer, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal
February 2020. vi, 358 pp.
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... read more
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
September 2021. x, 299 pp.
This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and... read more
SCL 102
Beyond Concordance LinesCorpora in language education
Edited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark
December 2021. ix, 255 pp.
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... read more
SCL 105
Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus LinguisticsNew approaches to variability and change
Edited by Susanne Flach and Martin Hilpert
November 2022. vi, 321 pp.
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,... read more
SCL 104
Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz
December 2022. vi, 327 pp.
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... read more
SCL 99
Conjunctive Markers of Contrast in English and FrenchFrom syntax to lexis and discourse
Maïté Dupont
June 2021. xvii, 436 pp.
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... read more
SCL 96
Corpora and the Changing SocietyStudies in the evolution of English
Edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola
April 2020. xii, 305 pp.
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... read more
SCL 100
Corpora, Constructions, New EnglishesA constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning
Samantha Laporte
July 2021. xxii, 395 pp.
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... read more
BCT 119
Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication
Edited by Wei-lun Lu, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda
August 2021. v, 157 pp.
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... read more
SCL 98
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
November 2020. vi, 210 pp.
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... read more
SCL 88
Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes
Edited by Alexandra U. Esimaje, Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia
February 2019. ix, 403 pp.
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... read more
P&bns 330
Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse
Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen
July 2022. vii, 322 pp.
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... read more
SCL 103
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
December 2021. xi, 341 pp.
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... read more
SCL 91
Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse
Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente
February 2019. vii, 294 pp.
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... read more
CAL 33
Discourse Structuring Markers in EnglishA historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
March 2022. xviii, 274 pp.
This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to... read more
VEAW G66
Earlier North American Englishes
Edited by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers
July 2022. viii, 261 pp.
Varieties of English in the U.S. and Canada display fascinating developments from colonial times up until the twenty-first century. To throw light on the linguistics of North American Englishes and their socio-historical... read more
SLCS 221
English Noun Phrases from a Functional-Cognitive PerspectiveCurrent issues
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Evelien Keizer
January 2022. vii, 433 pp.
Despite a significant increase in interest over the last two decades in the English Noun Phrase, there are still many open questions and unexplored issues. The papers collected in this volume contribute to this ongoing research... read more
Z 232
Grammar of Spoken and Written English
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey N. Leech, Susan Conrad and Edward Finegan
November 2021. xxxv, 1220 pp.
The completely redesigned Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a comprehensive corpus-based reference grammar. GSWE describes the structural characteristics of grammatical constructions in English, as do other reference... read more
SCL 94
In Search of Basic Units of Spoken LanguageA corpus-driven approach
Edited by Shlomo Izre'el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso
June 2020. xi, 440 pp.
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... read more
BPA 9
Language Processing in Advanced Learners of EnglishA multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data
Marco Schilk
May 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
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... read more
SLCS 214
Late Modern EnglishNovel encounters
Edited by Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg
March 2020. vii, 359 pp.
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in... read more
SCL 92
Learner Corpora and Language Teaching
Edited by Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee
May 2019. vi, 267 pp.
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... read more
SCL 93
Learning the Language of DentistryDisciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes
Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung
August 2019. xiv, 222 pp.
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... read more
VEAW G61
Modeling World EnglishesAssessing the interplay of emancipation and globalization of ESL varieties
Edited by Sandra C. Deshors
September 2018. x, 297 pp.
At a time when globalization and the advent of the internet have accelerated the spread and diversification of English varieties worldwide, this book provides a constructive assessment of the theoretical models that best account... read more
SCL 90
Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation StudiesNew resources and applications
Edited by Irene Doval and M. Teresa Sánchez Nieto
March 2019. ix, 301 pp.
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... read more
Z 229
Professional Development in Applied LinguisticsA guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty
Edited by Luke Plonsky
July 2020. vi, 204 pp.
Success in academia requires more than an understanding of discipline-specific literature and an ability to teach and do research. It is also necessary to develop an understanding of a range of professionally-oriented skills such... read more
RMAL 2
Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies
Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
September 2022. xv, 325 pp.
Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity... read more
SCL 89
RhapsodieA prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French
Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea
June 2019. xv, 396 pp.
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.... read more
BCT 108
Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research
Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner
July 2020. v, 161 pp.
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... read more
SCL 101
Time in Languages, Languages in Time
Edited by Anna Čermáková, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik
September 2021. vi, 307 pp.
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... read more
Z 228
Visual Linguistics with RA practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics
Christoph Rühlemann
July 2020. ix, 258 pp.
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... read more
SCL 97
Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken TextsIn honor of Merja Kytö
Edited by Ewa Jonsson and Tove Larsson
October 2020. xiii, 348 pp.
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,... read more