This book applies a set of corpus investigation techniques to the study of evaluation, or
stance, or affect, in naturally-occurring discourse. Evaluative language indicates opinions …

Discourse is one of the most significant concepts of contemporary thinking in the humanities
and social sciences as it concerns the ways language mediates and shapes our interactions …

This thesis reports a study using a corpus of text messages in English (CorTxt) to explore
linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the …

University of Birmingham is paper proposes a concept of 'semantic sequences', that is,
series of meaning elements that can be demonstrated to occur regularly either in a general …

Doing Applied Linguistics provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field
of applied linguistics for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject. The …

The teaching of EAP/ESP has always been informed by rigorous investigation and
description of the language that learners will need in their intended future activities' and, with …

This thesis explores the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the speech of Chinese non-
native speakers (NNSs) of English and native speakers (NSs), using corpus methodologies …

The present paper aims at exploring the pivotal role of evaluative phraseology in judges'
discourse, typified in the legal genre of the judgment. This contrastive cross-language study …

The aim of this chapter is to identify relationships between phraseology and epistemology in
the discourses of two humanities disciplines, history and literary criticism. The empirical …

This thesis considers how language development takes place over time by a group of 124
secondary school students of English. A series of five studies were conducted for this …