Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies, providing a data-driven method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere. This ground-breaking book shows how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than th..
Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics is brought together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain...
Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics is brought together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain...
Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its habi..
In this book, Adolphs and Carter explore key approaches to work in spoken corpus linguistics. The book discusses some of the pioneering challenges faced in designing, building and utilising insights from the analysis of spoken corpora, arguing that, even though writing is heavily privileged in corpu..
This book uses cutting-edge research to showcase how spoken learner corpora can define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English. Taking the approach that successful speakers can be effective while using some defective forms, it reassess the goals of learners, teachers and those wish..
This book uses corpus-based discourse analytical techniques to examine online and face-to-face interactions in a Language Teacher Education program by assessing the formation and practices of a community of practice, demonstrating how corpus linguistics can offer a richer picture of the affective an..
In this book, Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality, drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech and ideology online...
The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community analyses the interactions of immigrants within an Irish reception centre for asylum seekers to highlight the instinctive resourcefulness of people who are faced with the challenge of communicating when there is no common languag..
This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological approaches in corpus linguistics through a series of parallel empirical studies that use a single corpus dataset to answer the same overarching research question, employing methodologies including corpus-based discourse analysis,..
This volume questions the reliability of attempts to identify metaphor based on dichotomy and instead advocates for the notion that metaphoricity is context-dependent and fluid, in relation to the respective social and discourse contexts in which metaphors can be found...