The breadth and spread of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) indicate its usefulness
for exploring language use within a social context. However, its theoretical foundations …

Obesity is a pressing social issue and a persistently newsworthy topic for the media. This
book examines the linguistic representation of obesity in the British press. It combines …

Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus
linguist's toolkit. However, despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously …

Around the world, people are now facing an unprecedented situation with the COVID-19
virus pandemic. With numerous countries announcing various modes of self-quarantine and …

This chapter explores the ways in which corpus linguistics can contribute to the study of
discourse. Combining the two approaches makes it possible to investigate language as a …

This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students', practitioners' and
researchers' knowledge of academic language. The book provides a reader-friendly …

In massive open online courses (MOOCs) the discussion function allows learners to
exchange information, experience and ideas with each other (Ferguson & Sharples, 2014; …

Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus
adopta un enfoque basado en corpus para analizar los principales rasgos discursivos de la …

Trains and, later, planes have exerted a peculiar fascination on travellers for almost two
hundred years. As Marchant (2004: 3) notes, in the UK '[t] he railway has been a national …

In this chapter we explore the key considerations attending to the compilation of written
corpora. We adopt a consciously broad view of what constitutes a “written” text for this …