This study aims to provide the first empirical assessment of quantitative research methods
and study quality in learner corpus research. We systematically review quantitative primary …

This chapter discusses methodological issues relating to keyness analysis, and addresses a
number of interconnected themes. It offers awareness of relevant methodological choices …

Keyword analysis has become an indispensable tool for discourse analysts, being applied
to identify the words that are especially characteristic of the texts in a target discourse …

Keyword analysis is used in a range of sub-disciplines of applied linguistics from genre
analyses to critically-oriented studies for different purposes ranging from producing a …

Formulaic sequences are recognised as having important roles in language acquisition,
processing, fluency, idiomaticity, and instruction. But there is little agreement over their …

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 …

It is proposed that citation contexts, the text surrounding references in scientific papers, be
analyzed in terms of an expanded notion of sentiment, defined to include attitudes and …

Frequency lists are useful in their own right for assisting a linguist, lexicographer, language
teacher, or learner analyse or exploit a corpus. When employed comparatively through the …

Leaders of the scientific community encourage scientists to learn effective science
communication, including honing the skill to discuss science with little professional jargon …

ABSTRACT ICE and GloWbE are the two main corpora available for the study of world
Englishes, and as such they share several features. However, they also differ in a number of …