This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its
relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching. Focussing on …

It is undeniable that English has established itself as a language of international prestige,
given its status of lingua franca in many important fields of contemporary life (Hoffman 2000) …

This study focuses on the use of lexical bundles (LBs), their structural forms, and their
functional classifications in journal articles of four academic disciplines: Health sciences …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in identifying dictionary-relevant lexical
bundles and analysing their lexicographic treatment. However, past research has only …

The research explores the functional distribution of the term 'feminist'in the Sociology of
Sport. To do this, new conceptual tools from Legitimation Code Theory's (LCT) dimension of …

[eng] The aim of this paper is to apply frame semantics principles to the analysis of a
specialized corpus, the Health Science Corpus, implemented in the lexical database SciE …

This paper presents the introduction of frame semantics in SciE-Lex, a lexical database of
biomedical English, in order to establish frame-based semantic networks among the lexical …

[eng] The notion of voice has attracted significant attention in academic writing (John 2005,
Herrando-Rodrigo 2019, 2022, inter alia) as it is conceived as a compelling device to …

Lexical bundles have recently commenced to attract huge attention in corpus-based
research. Knowledge of lexical bundles is essential for students learning foreign language …

Abstract Words are particular about the company they keep, so educators have long
endeavored to crack the collocational code, accelerating SLA. This endeavor is supported …