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Describing swearing and its social function, this book focuses on the relationship between swearing and abuse. It provides an explanation of how modern attitudes to bad language have come about.

This edited volume provides detailed analyses of multifunctional forms in English and offers hands-on approaches exemplifying relevant implications and useful applications to language and literacy educators in TESOL, ESL/EFL/EAL and research students in applied linguistics and education.The chapters cover: The multifunctionality of utterances in spoken and multimodal corpora, the multifunctionality of linguistic creativity in different genres, multifunctional pronouns in hard and soft sciences, and professional discourse in the university and secondary school contexts. The volume also offers a comparison of the multifunctionality of verbs between ESL textbooks, native written and spoken English corpora, and between ESL and L1 university students in writing a particular genre; comparisons of the multifunctionality of discourse markers between different registers and between L1 and L2 English speakers, as well as multifunctional metadiscourse markers in different disciplines and paradigms.With detailed analysis of authentic corpus data representing different varieties of English, specialized use in different contexts and disciplines, and practical teaching and learning applications, the volume bridges theory and practice, providing a creatively designed resource for students, educators and researchers looking to understand multifunctional forms in English.

This edited volume provides detailed analyses of multifunctional forms in English and hands-on approaches to exemplifying relevant implications and useful applications to language and literacy educators in TESOL, ESL/EFL/EAL, academic literacies and postgraduate coursework and research students in applied linguistics and Education.

This collection showcases the latest innovations in research on the application of corpora and corpus-based methods in writing instruction in ESP/EAP and the many ways in which corpora can be successfully and practically integrated in ESP/EAP programmes

This book takes triangulation one step further to highlight its broader applicability when implemented with other linguistic research methods.

Examines the spoken and written language of post-observation teaching-practice feedback on teacher education programs. This book aims to determine the defining characteristics of this genre, focusing on pragmatic factors, with the ultimate goal of investigating the salient aspects responsible for making feedback both effective and affective.

Phraseology, as explored in corpus linguistics, is important to the study of evaluative language. Corpus techniques reveal this phraseology and so assist in, for example, identifying modal meaning and intensifying phrases. The patterns identified by corpus techniques can be used in identifying and parsing instances of evaluation.

Corpus stylistics is an area of study in the discipline of linguistics. This title explores topics in literary stylistics such as interpretation, stylistic variation, irony and characterization using computational and statistical techniques developed in the field including corpus linguistics and humanities computing.

Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the phenomenon.

Presents a full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. This work discusses the relevance of the theory of priming in this area, and whether semantic prosody has cogency as a theoretical concept.

Offers a corpus-based contrastive study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. This book provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on discussion of interlingual equivalence.

This book examines the relationship between the White House, in the person of its press secretary, and the press corps, through a linguistic analysis of the language used by both sides.

This volume illustrates the role of language in political action by analyzing the discourse of various British and US institutions on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus in order to identify regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, and qualitative context-based discourse analysis.

This volume represents a different direction at the interface between the fields of stylistics and corpus linguistics, namely the use of a corpus methodology to investigate the ways in which people's words and thoughts are presented in written narratives.

This book offers a diachronic and synchronic description of complex prepositions (e.g. in view of, by way of) in English and discusses the theoretical justification for their classification as a grammatical category.

Presents a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns, employing corpus linguistic methodology to study electronic versions of his texts. This study also incorporates comparable data from other nineteenth-century writers. It is suitable for both researchers and students of language and literature.

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, audience perceptions, Multi-Dimensional analysis, pragmatic analysis, and keyword analysis.