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The Verbal Language of Video Games in a Multidimensional Perspective
This chapter is part of the institutional proposal of the “Multimodal/multilingual portal for the advancement of open science in the Humanities”...
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Publish or Perish: The Research Letter Genre and Non-Anglophone Scientists’ Struggle for Academic Visibility
This chapter aimed at exploring the prevalence of the research letter (henceforth RL) genre among 101 non-Anglophone academics (henceforth NAA)....
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A longitudinal study of multi-word constructions in L2 academic writing: the effects of frequency and dispersion
This study examined the trajectories of the multi-word constructions (MWCs) in 98 advanced second language (L2) learners during their first-year at...
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Prioritizing Horizontal Spoken Discourse in Teaching English for Medical Purposes
In this chapter, the author argues that, in the field of spoken medical discourse, teaching horizontal discourses (peer-peer,...
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Genre Theory in Systemic Linguistics
Genre is not a new word, but there have been different understandings of it in different disciplines.
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‘Anyone Who Isn’t Against Us Is for Us’: Science Fiction Translated from English During the Kádár Era in Hungary (1956–89)
Focusing on translations from English, the chapter gives an overview of the initally ideology-driven, but later more pragmatic cultural policy of the...
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Role Switch in Lecturer-Students Classroom Interaction: A Corpus-Based Study of Self-Referential Personal Pronouns
In classroom lectures, lecturers alternate roles to present appropriate disciplinary ethos to students. Hence, this corpus-based study examines...
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Corpus Linguistics and Writing Instruction
This chapter discusses the ways that corpora can be used to inform second language (L2) writing pedagogy. There are two common approaches to using...
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Exploring the writing attainment gap: profiling writing challenges and predictors for children with English as an additional language
While there is some evidence of a gap in English writing achievement between children with English as an additional language (EAL) compared to their...
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Aim and Methodology of the Study
This chapter explicates the aim and methodology of the study, namely, to elucidate the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing...
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Digital Scholarly Practices in Scientific Communication: Paths and Goals in Research Dissemination
This chapter has been conceived as a general introduction to the volume Digital Scientific Communication: Identity and Visibility in Research...
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Metadiscourse Learning Trajectories in Multilingual Learners: A Focus on Attitude Markers and Hedges
The role of metadiscourse in the attainment of persuasion in any type of human interaction is indisputable. In multilingual settings, learners need...
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Teaching English Linguistics During the Pandemic: Online Group Project Work for Millennials
The paper reports on the progress made by second-year university students enrolled in the Foreign Language degree course at the University of Messina...
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Confrontation and the Academic Discourse Community Revisited
This chapter servers as a conclusion and sums up the results of the study, at the same time bringing up some theoretical issues and putting them in...
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Utmost Hybridity: Promotional Trends in Technology Disclosures
This chapter examines the hybrid nature of the ‘technology disclosure’, a relatively recent digital genre for technology dissemination born in...
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Develo** computational infrastructure for the CorCenCC corpus: The National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh
CorCenCC (Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes—National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh) is the first comprehensive corpus of Welsh designed to be...
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Moving Away from the Implicit Teaching of Genres in the L2 Classroom
English language proficiency exams are often associated with high-stakes decisions. Guidance however, concerning the writing tasks is often implicit....
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The Pragmatics and Discourse Functions of MM
Targeting the linguistic phenomenon of MM, the core question is how and why metaphorical and congruent modes of modality differ from each other.