The field of language learning strategies (LLS) has grown significantly, experiencing many
twists and turns over the years. Consequently, this study takes stock of, and reports on …

In the past few decades the use of increasingly large text corpora has grown rapidly in
language and linguistics research. This was enabled by remarkable strides in natural …

Blogs, which can be written and read by anyone with a computer and an internet connection,
would seem to expand the possibilities for engagement in public sphere debates. Indeed …

Finding out whether a word occurs significantly more often in one text or corpus than in
another is an important question in analysing corpora. As noted by Kilgarriff (Language is …

This article explores the language of violent jihad, focussing upon lexis encoding concepts
from Islam. Through the use of correlation statistics, this article demonstrates that the words …

This chapter surveys recent research on political discourse which makes use of corpus
linguistics in order to show the direction of travel for work in this area and to reveal where …

Research on metaphor increasingly exploits, in a variety of ways and for a variety of
purposes, the computer-aided methods developed within Corpus Linguistics. In this chapter …

Discursive psychology is an approach that addresses psychological matters in terms of how
they figure in discourse–in conversations over family mealtimes, in therapy sessions, in …

This paper investigates digital discursive practices of hostility against women in UK politics
through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of Twitter data retrieved across the …

Abstract “Climate change” and “global warming” are two popular terms that may be often
used interchangeably in news media. This study proposes to give a corpus-assisted …