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Honoured with the 2017 AESLA Research Award of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics.
Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions by leading scholars in the field of English corpus linguistics, covering areas of central concern in corpus research and corpus methodology. The topics examined in the different chapters include issues related to corpus compilation and annotation, perspectives from specialized corpora, and studies on grammatical and pragmatic aspects of English, all these examined through a broad range of corpora, both synchronic and diachronic, representing both EFL and different native varieties of English worldwide. The volume will be of primary interest to students and researchers working on English corpus linguistics, but is also likely to have a wider general appeal.
Contributors are: Bas Aarts, Siân Alsop, Anita Auer, Jill Bowie, Eduardo Coto-Villalibre, Pieter de Haan, Johan Elsness, Moragh Gordon, Hilde Hasselgård, Turo Hiltunen, Magnus Huber, Marianne Hundt, Mikko Laitinen, Martti Mäkinen, Beatriz Mato-Míguez, Mike Olson, Antoinette Renouf, and Bianca Widlitzki.
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
1. From the fringe to the mainstream: English corpus linguistics moving ahead
María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, and Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez
Part I: Issues in corpus compilation
2. English urban vernaculars, 1400-1700: Digitizing text from manuscript
Anita Auer, Moragh Gordon, and Mike Olson
3. Creating a corpus of student writing in economics: Structure and representativeness
Martti Mäkinen and Turo Hiltunen
4. Ongoing changes and advanced L2 use of English: Evidence from new corpus resources
Mikko Laitinen
Part II: Investigating register variation through corpora
5. Verbs and verb phrases in advanced Dutch ELF writing: Case studies in qualitative and quantitative ELF analysis
Pieter de Haan
6. Discourse-organizing metadiscourse in novice academic English
Hilde Hasselgård
7. Passives in academic writing: Comparing research articles and student essays across four disciplines
Turo Hiltunen
8. Adverbial hapax legomena in news text: Why do some coinages remain hapax?
Antoinette Renouf
Part III: Corpora and grammar: Examining grammatical variation in space
9. English in South Africa: The case of past-referring verb forms
Johan Elsness
10. A look at participial constructions with get in Hong Kong English
Eduardo Coto-Villalibre
11. Who is the/a/Ø professor at your university? A construction-grammar view on changing article use with single role predicates in American English
Marianne Hundt
12. Clause fragments in English dialogue
Jill Bowie and Bas Aarts
Part IV: Corpus insights into the pragmatics of spoken English
13. The expression of directive meaning: A corpus-based study on the variation between imperatives, conditionals and insubordinated if-clauses in spoken British English
Beatriz Mato-Míguez
14. Taboo language and swearing in eighteenth and nineteenth century English: A diachronic study based on the Old Bailey Corpus
Bianca Widlitzki and Magnus Huber
15. The 'humour' element in engineering lectures across cultures: An approach to pragmatic annotation
Siân Alsop
