In this chapter, we provide an overview of the main concepts relating to corpus annotation,
along with some discussion of the practical aspects of creating annotated texts and working …

One day after taking a new job in the city of Bristol in the West of England, one of the
authors, Jonathan Charteris-Black, was purchasing a bicycle when he overheard a …

This paper examines how intercultural communication (ICC) and the notion of culture are
framed in on-line promotional discourse of higher education (HE) ICC courses. It analyses a …

Large quantities of spelling variation in corpora, such as that found in Early Modern English,
can cause significant problems for corpus linguistic tools and methods. Having texts with …

Perspectives on gender and identity that emphasize variability of performance, local context
and individual agency have displaced earlier paradigms. These are now perceived to have …

Corpus-based approaches to researching metaphor use in business English have become
increasingly prevalent, but metaphor use in the genre of mission statements has received …

This chapter describes that an internet survey of a random sample of ten general MA
programmes in ELT/TESOL/TEFL in both the UK and the US at the time of writing revealed …

This article investigates the transfer of verb-second syntax (V2) from L1 German and Dutch
into L2 English. A comparative learner corpus analysis between L1 German, Dutch and …

In this paper, we describe the development and exploitation of a corpus-based tool for the
identification of metaphorical patterns in large datasets. The analysis of metaphor as a …

This volume is a corpus study of the construct of accuracy by learners of English as a
Foreign Language based on the International Corpus of Learner English. Accuracy is …