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Corpora And Language Change In Late Modern English

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 Late Modern English has traditionally been considered a period of linguistic stability in terms of language standardization. However, a careful examination of crucial aspects of its internal and external history reveals that this period still deserves scholarly attention.
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Investigating Discourse And Texts - Corpus-Assisted Analytical Perspectives

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 This volume delves into Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS), providing a deeper understanding of the social practices that underpin discourse creation and the recurring characteristics of their associated textual elements.
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(Critical) Discourse Studies And The (New?) Normal - Analysing Discourse In Times Of Crisis

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 This volume explores â€" from various discourse-analytic perspectives â€" the complex relationships between norms and discourse, and draws attention to the thematically and methodologically pluralistic work in Discourse Studies exploring these relationships across various social domains.
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E-Learning In English Medium Instruction (Emi): Academic Language For University Students

by Ana Maria Piquer-Piriz

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 This book focuses on the linguistic needs of university students enrolled in English Medium Instruction (EMI) programmes in which disciplinary subjects are taught in English, a practice that has significantly risen over the last 20 years. It includes seven online, self-study modules (Creating outlines, concept maps, writing definitions, writing summaries, reporting data, the language of presentations and writing abstracts) that were designed after conducting specific research into students needs in terms of academic genres and language functions. All these modules were piloted with students in different degree programmes. The piloting confirmed the suitability of the materials for EMI undergraduate and postgraduate learners and the benefits of following a genre-based approach in this specific context.
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Probabilistic Variability In Clausal Verb Complementation In World Englishes

by Raquel P. Romasanta

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 The book explores finite and nonfinite clausal verb complementation in present-day World Englishes from a corpus-based perspective. It provides an assessment of the influence of language contact, simplicity and transparency, geographical proximity, and evolutionary phase on this alternation and an account of new verb complementation structures.
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Evidentiality And Epistemic Modality - Conceptual And Descriptive Issues

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 The book presents ground-breaking research on evidentiality and epistemic modality. The theoretical papers address inferential evidence and challengeability. The descriptive papers mostly follow a corpus-based contrastive methodology, uncovering discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages.
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Age-Specific Issues. Language, Spaces, Technologies

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 This volume is a collection of studies dealing with age or, rather, ages, mainly from a linguistic viewpoint, but also accommodating inputs from other disciplinary perspectives. It focuses on the linguistic, social, economic and ethical aspects of social groups defined in terms of age which clearly includes seniors but is, of course, not limited to that. In a global setting where spaces are constantly being redefined, new technologies and phenomena like the COVID-19 pandemic exert a substantial influence on how ages are perceived, seen and constructed. Within such a complex and multi-layered context, the chapters of this book provide attempts at showcasing realities connected with language, ages and, in general, the discourses surrounding them.
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The Language Of Fashion - Linguistic, Cognitive, And Cultural Insights

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 This volume contributes to advancing the knowledge of crucial aspects in the language of fashion, such as its morphological, lexical, pragmatic, and cultural features, without ignoring cognitive and semiotic phenomena. The chapters testify to the variety and vitality of scientific research in the complex and multifaceted language of fashion.
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Stance Devices In Tourism-Related Research Articles: A Corpus-Based Study

by Francisco J. Alvarez-Gil

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 This volume aims to showcase research as to the study of perspectivization in English language academic articles in the field of tourism. A key aspect of this study is the way in which writers elaborate and organize information following their editorial traditions. Interestingly, complete scientific articles in the field have not received much scholarly attention. A first task, therefore, that this book undertakes is the characterization of the article in terms of unctional stages, according to a framework of functional linguistics. The methodology also involves the use of corpus linguistics tools to analyze linguistic stance devices and to draw data for their illustration. These linguistic stance strategies are examined by genre stage to highlight possible variation in these stages. The results of this research hopefully would impact on the study of specialized English for tourism and on the design of new teaching materials.
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Frequency In The Dictionary - A Corpus-Assisted Contrastive Analysis Of English And Italian

by Dominic Stewart

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 This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, and in particular with contrastive frequency across languages. The focus is on the learning of English and Italian, whether it be English speakers learning Italian or Italian speakers learning English. Despite the fact that frequency whether it be of lemmas or of word forms within specific lexicogrammatical environments lies at the heart of L2 learning, it is not stressed in any salient or consistent manner in English / Italian language-learning materials. This work aims to redress the balance, offering a corpusassisted critical analysis of the way frequency is handled in English and Italian dictionaries, and bringing out unexpected differences between the two languages.
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Argument Structure In Flux - The Development Of Impersonal Constructions In Middle And Early Modern English, With Special Reference To Verbs Of Desire

by Noelia Castro-Chao

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 The class of verbs of Desire comprises verbs whose syntax and semantics have undergone important changes in the course of their histories. Their argument structure involves a Desirer and a Desired, and in earlier English they could be used impersonally in constructions lacking a subject marked for the nominative case. The book presents three case studies based on a comprehensive survey of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Middle English Dictionary and on corpus data retrieved from EEBOCorp 1.0 (1470s1690s). The results obtained unveil the loss of impersonal uses and their gradual replacement by personal patterns, in particular a pattern where the verb governs a prepositional complement representing the Desired as a metaphorical goal.
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Exploring Discourse And Ideology Through Corpora

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 This book explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used approach for the critical (or non-critical) analysis of discourses in recent times. The book focuses on the analysis of different kinds of discourse, but most particularly on those which attempt to unveil social attitudes and values. Although a corpus methodology is deemed crucial in all research found here, it should not be inferred that a single, uniform technique is applied, but a wide variety of them, often shaped by the software which has been used. Also, more than one (qualitative or quantitative) methodology or drawing from various relevant sources is often called for in the critical analysis of discourses.
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Metaphor And Conflict / Métaphore Et Conflit

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 The various chapters of the book offer a theoretical reflection on the metaphor and its use in argumentation. The central focus, at an epistemological and rhetorical-pragmatic level, is on the relationship between metaphor and conflict.
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Examining The Interaction Among Components Of English For Specific Purposes Ability In Reading - The Triple-Decker Model

by Yuyang Cai

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 The book presents the Triple-Decker Model that describes the interactive mechanism among key constituents of English for Specific Purposes Ability (ESPA): language knowledge, strategic competence and background knowledge (nursing knowledge).
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Applied Linguistics And Knowledge Transfer - Employability, Internationalisation And Social Challenges

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 Applied Linguistics can contribute to the enhancement of economic growth and societal well-being by addressing todayâ€™s social challenges and integrating employability, internationalization initiatives and knowledge transfer across higher education and elsewhere.
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Politics And Populism Across Modes And Media

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 The relationship between politics and digital media is currently a focus of intense interest: the symbiosis between the two spheres is such that political activity is now almost inseparable from media communication. However, the implications of this development are not fully understood. Digital media are a powerful tool in the hands of mainstream parties, but also make it easier than ever before for the public to express their reactions, or for new actors to enter the political arena. This volume explores the intersection between politics and new media, which involves crucial ideals, values and aspirations, such as informed democracy, citizens empowerment and social debate, but also negative aspects like manipulation and polarization.
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Complexity, Efficiency, And Language Contact - Pronoun Omission In World Englishes

by Iván Tamaredo

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 Two complementary case studies are presented. First, a cross-varietal study indicates that high-contact varieties of English exhibit a higher attestation rate of pronoun omission than low-contact varieties. Second, a corpus-based study demonstrates that pronouns are commonly omitted in contexts in which their antecedents can be easily identified.
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Scholarly Pathways - Knowledge Transfer And Knowledge Exchange In Academia

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 With the increasing use of digital technologies in academic and research settings, scholars worldwide are engaging in new pathways for knowledge dissemination. Indeed, recent technological developments have made a dramatic change to the ways in which scholars nowadays access, distribute and disseminate their research work. The migration of traditional print genres to digital environments has caused phenomena of remediation, transmediality and genre hybridity. Moreover, new research-oriented genres on the Internet have emerged as a result of the multiple accountabilities of scientific output today. Thus, these scholarly pathways and transformative practices have opened up new and multiple perspectives and possibilities that are worth investigating.This volume explores knowledge dissemination practices according to two main orientations; first, with respect to the target audience, especially scholars vs. novices. Second in relation to the channels, especially multimodal and web-based platforms, and changing strategies such as popularization resources.
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Punctuation In Context Past And Present Perspectives

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 Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation. The contributions to the book discuss the grammatical, pragmatic, rhetorical and stylistic functions of punctuation, such as encoding emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indication. They also highlight the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, as well as the important role punctuation plays for reader interpretation. They further demonstrate how punctuation conventions change in time. The data is drawn from English, with one investigation devoted to German.
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Investigating Conflict Discourses In The Periodical Press

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 The book investigates conflict discourse in an interdisciplinary way, bringing together linguistics and periodical studies and highlighting the connection between language and ideology. It focuses on lexical choices and rhetorical devices used to tackle controversial issues.
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Explorations In Second Language Vocabulary Research

by David Hirsh

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 Reflecting current understanding of vocabulary as a multifaceted construct, this edited volume presents a collection of qualitative and quantitative studies which shed light on key theoretical concepts associated with learning and using vocabulary in second language contexts.
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Learning Second Language Pragmatics Beyond Traditional Contexts

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 The volume Learning second language pragmatics beyond traditional contexts is a collection of studies dealing with the acquisition of second language pragmatic competence in different learning contexts. Such contexts brought together include technology-mediated contexts (e.g. computer-mediated communication, emails), emerging institutional settings in the European context (e.g. CLIL, English-medium instruction, the multilingual classroom), study abroad settings, and natural contexts (e.g. au-pairing, media contact). Altogether, the contributions attempt to move forward the field of second language pragmatics by accounting for learning settings that have gained importance in the current era of globalization and multiculturalism.
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Gendering Nationalism - Intersections Of Nation, Gender And Sexuality

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 This volume offers an empirically rich, theoretically informed study of the shifting intersections of nation/alism, gender and sexuality.
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University Cricket And Emerging Adulthood - "Days In The Dirt"

by Harry C. R. Bowles

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 Set in one of the six university centres of cricket excellence established by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2000 as a pathway into professional cricket, the study examines the nature of the university cricket experience in relation to a process of occupational identity-exploration and development.
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