Electronic texts and text analysis tools have opened up a wealth of opportunities to higher
education and language service providers, but learning to use these resources continues to …

CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for
analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and …

Considered one of the most astonishing narrative achievements of the twentieth century
Modernist novel and Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves (1931) is perhaps her most …

The Handbook of Language and Professional Communication is an attempt to introduce
current research and practice in the field of language teaching and learning in professional …

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 book shows that the discourse of the Labour party 1994-2007, revolving around three
key concepts of identity, narrative and metaphor, not only reflected new Labour's policy and …

The abundance of language data that is now available in digital form, and the rise of distinct
language varieties that are used for digital communication, means that issues of non …

This paper demonstrates how a range of linguistic methods can be harnessed in pursuit of a
deeper understanding of the'lived experience'of psychological disorders. It argues that such …

This paper demonstrates the value of The Proceedings of the Old Bailey (1674–1913) as a
linguistic resource, via a discussion of pragmatic studies undertaken by Archer, Cecconi and …

This article investigates the ways in which we might use the UCREL Semantic Annotation
System (USAS) to explore pragmatic phenomena relating to verbal aggression within Old …