Corpus linguistics, applied linguistics & technology in language education
Representativeness Balance, representativeness and comparability are ideals which corpus builders strive for but rarely, if ever, attain. In truth, the measures of balance and representativeness are matters of degree. V´aradi (2001) has been critical of the failure of corpus linguists to fully define and realise a balanced and representative corpus. Even proposals, such as those … Read more
So happy to contribute to this volume on populist discourse: Pérez-Paredes, P. (2019). Little old UK voting Brexit and her Austrian friends: A corpus-driven analysis of the 2016 UK right-wing tabloid discourse. In Hidalgo, Benítez & De CEsare (eds.) Populist Discourse. Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics, 1st Edition. London: Riutledge. The volume has been edited … Read more
Nicholas Groom´s great presentation on corpus-based discourse analysis and the examination of closed-class keywords
Through the AESLA list :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 2nd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration Rapallo (Italy), September, 22-23, 2016 The aim of the Conference is to focus on epistemological and methodological continuities and discontinuities in the sociolinguistics of immigration. Several new researches and approaches have begun to emerge in the last few years: translingualism, polylanguaging, … Read more
Migration Discourses across Languages, Societies and Discourse Communities part of CADAAD 2016 at the University of Catania, 5-7 September 2016. While in the last two decades public and political discourses about migration have been studied within a range of countries and languages, only a small amount of research has been concerned with comparing and … Read more