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A corpus of English learners with Arabic and Hebrew backgrounds
Learner corpora—datasets that reflect the language of non-native speakers—are instrumental for research of language learning and development, as well...
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Eh Across Englishes: A Corpus-Pragmatic Analysis of the Corpus of Global Web-Based English
This paper presents an analysis of the pragmatic marker eh , which is typical of spoken discourse, in written online discourse from nine varieties of...
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“You are quite funny paa!”: A corpus-based study of borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Ghanaian English
This study explores six borrowed discourse-pragmatic features – koraa/kraa, saa, paa, yoo, wai/wae , and waa ,– which are borrowed from indigenous...
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Introduction: Researching Corpus Pragmatics in Irish English
This Introduction to the Special Issue describes the research background to Irish English Corpus Pragmatics. It also gives a brief overview of the...
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Apologies in South Asian Varieties of English: A Corpus-Based Study on Indian and Sri Lankan English
Despite notable recent exceptions (for instance Funke, 2020), corpus-based research into South Asian Englishes has so far concentrated on structural...
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Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching
The aim of this Introduction to the volume Demystifying Corpus Linguistics for English Language Teaching is to introduce the reader to key approaches...
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Emergent Pragmatic Conventions in Spoken ELF Corpus Data: Micro-Diachronic Analysis of Inclusive vs. Exclusive Multilingual Practices
This article examines multilingual practices as an example of emergent pragmatic conventions in three Transient International Groups (TIGs) using...
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Frequency and Variability in the Use of Modal Verbs in Zimbabwean English
This corpus-based exploratory study examines modal verbs in Zimbabwean English (ZimE), and British English, to determine whether there are variations...
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Investigating the Chinese and English Language Proficiency of Tertiary Students in Hong Kong: Insights from a Student Translation Corpus
This study aims to investigate the Chinese and English language proficiency of tertiary students in Hong Kong through the unique lens of translation....
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Review of Development and Application of a Multimodal Corpus for Learners? Pragmatic Competence
Pragmatic competence, a kind of comprehensive language ability, has expanded its scope and approach as the increasingly important status of English...
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Intensifier Usage in Nigerian English: A Corpus-Based Approach
This paper examines patterns of use, frequency, and register variability of intensifiers, which are grouped into maximisers, boosters, compromisers,...
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A sentiment corpus for the cryptocurrency financial domain: the CryptoLin corpus
The objective of this paper is to describe Cryptocurrency Linguo (CryptoLin), a novel corpus containing 2683 cryptocurrency-related news articles...
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Slovenian parliamentary corpus siParl
Parliamentary debates represent an essential part of democratic discourse and provide insights into various socio-demographic and linguistic...
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The Potential Impact of EFL Textbook Language on Learner English: A Triangulated Corpus Study
This chapter investigates the potential impact of the language of textbooks used in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) on learner...
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KurdiSent: a corpus for kurdish sentiment analysis
Language is essential for communication and the expression of feelings and sentiments. As technology advances, language has become increasingly...
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Infectious risk events and their novelty in event-based surveillance: new definitions and annotated corpus
Event-based surveillance (EBS) requires the analysis of an ever-increasing volume of documents, requiring automated processing to support human...
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The primacy of morphology in English braille spelling: an analysis of bridging contractions
This study examines the use of braille contractions in a corpus of spelling tests from braille-reading children in grades 1-4, with particular...
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Chunk Extraction in Business English Correspondences
At present, no scholars have conducted MT-oriented research on the chunk extraction of human–computer interaction in business English...
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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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Building the VisSE Corpus of Spanish SignWriting
SignWriting is a system for transcribing sign languages, using iconic depictions of the hands and other body parts, as well as exploiting the...
