Corpus Linguistics has revolutionised the world of language study and is an essential
component of work in Applied Linguistics. This book, now in its second edition, provides a …

Little attention has been paid so far to keywords and lexical bundles used in the English
language typical of the pharmaceutical field. Conducted from a register-perspective (Biber & …

This is a groundbreaking book. It is groundbreaking in the field of applied linguistics and
groundbreaking too in the field of health communication research. The book challenges a …

This paper looks at blogs as dialogic action games characterized by specific communicative
purposes and corresponding language use, as described in the MGM. The assumption is …

Cyberbullying involves the use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) to
carry out an act or a series of acts intended to harm victims emotionally [12, p. 288]. As a …

Figure legends, a descriptive statement accompanying a graph, is an essential component
of science writing, and novice writers often find it difficult to write an adequate and plausible …

The prediction of an author's native language using only their second language writing—a
task called Native Language Identification (NLI)—is usually tackled using supervised …

This article presents the first steps in the investigation of the potential for digital storytelling
and digital museums to be used as instruments for access, as enablers of epistemic and …

Pearson's chi-squared test is probably the most popular statistical test used in corpus
linguistics, particularly for studying linguistic variations between corpora. Oakes and Farrow …

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 …