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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
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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
DAPSAC 98
Conspiracy Theory Discourses
Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola
December 2022. x, 509 pp.
Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is wide-ranging and their influence on the... 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
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 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
DAPSAC 91
Degrees of European BelongingThe fuzzy areas between us and them
Élisabeth Le
March 2021. xvi, 251 pp.
While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them, a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction. The purpose of this book is to address the fuzzy areas between Us and Them through the study of European... read more
DAPSAC 92
Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
April 2021. viii, 323 pp.
The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in... read more
SCL 72
The Discourse of Nurse-Patient InteractionsContrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses
Shelley Staples
December 2015. xiv, 263 pp.
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... 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
DAPSAC 97
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political StrategyTowards a post-Marxist understanding of contestation and politicization
Thomas Jacobs
October 2022. vi, 234 pp.
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists – how do left-wing forces win at politics? Thirty-five years ago,... read more
DAPSAC 95
History, Discourse, and Policy in Modern Turkey
Alper Çakmak
October 2021. xvi, 212 pp.
Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of... 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
DAPSAC 89
Language Policy in BusinessDiscourse, ideology and practice
Elisabeth Barakos
November 2020. xv, 195 pp.
Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism... read more
DAPSAC 87
The Language of CrisisMetaphors, frames and discourses
Edited by Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
July 2020. viii, 309 pp.
In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our... read more
SCL 79
Lexical PrimingApplications and advances
Edited by Michael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson
August 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
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... read more
DAPSAC 90
Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups
Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian
January 2021. xi, 190 pp.
Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However,... read more
DAPSAC 94
Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in NewsmakingA postfoundational perspective
Edited by Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele
November 2021. vi, 186 pp.
This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they... read more
DAPSAC 93
Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial NationA critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
Eleonora Esposito
May 2021. xvii, 207 pp.
This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights... read more
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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
DAPSAC 96
Science Communication in Times of Crisis
Edited by Pascal Hohaus
August 2022. vi, 222 pp.
This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis. The contributions discuss present crises such as COVID-19 (e.g. vaccination campaigns or political reactions towards the pandemic in... read more
DAPSAC 88
Speaking for the NationIntellectuals and nation-building in the post-Yugoslav space
Federico Giulio Sicurella
June 2020. xi, 236 pp.
The book explores the nexus of intellectual activity and nation-building from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. By examining how public intellectuals from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina commented on key... read more
Impact 47
Talking about FoodThe social and the global in eating communities
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen
June 2020. vi, 284 pp.
All humans eat and all humans speak – activities which in social life often, but not always, co-occur: We talk while eating and drinking with others, but food is also a prominent literal and metaphorical discursive topic which... 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
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