A critical examination of key concepts and issues in corpus linguistics, with a particular focus
on the expanding interdisciplinary nature of the field and the role that written and spoken …

OBJECTIVE:: Contemporary clinical communication teaching and research reflect the
axiomatic importance of building a clinical relationship and of empowering patients as …

This paper is a qualitative and quantitative corpus-based study of how academic writers use
the personal pronouns I and inclusive and exclusive we. Using a multidisciplinary corpus …

Escalating health care costs are affecting patients across the country. As employers and
insurance companies face higher expenses, they may move to a cost-sharing strategy …

Client behaviour change is at the heart of veterinary practice, where promoting animal
health and welfare is often synonymous with engaging clients in animal management …

Background Shared decision making has practical implications for everyday health care.
However, it stems from largely theoretical frameworks and is not widely implemented in …

Can linguistic choices of reviewers, such as using first-person singular pronouns (FPSP),
affect readers' perception of information helpfulness? When sharing their purchase and …

Objective We describe the different ways in which illness represents an existential problem,
and its implications for shared decision-making. Methods We explore core concepts of …

The development of new communication technologies has created a wide variety of new
fields in which human beings can construct identities. The past decade has seen a …

This paper introduces the web application CLiC, which we developed as part of a research
project bringing together insights from both cognitive poetics and corpus stylistics, with …