In spite of the current need in the computational community for digital corpora in different languages with complex linguistic annotations going beyond morphosyntactic features, there is not much work within the Digital Humanities community dedicated to this task. In this paper I describe recent work on the development of a bilingual (English-Spanish) corpus consisting of original comparable an...

with regard to the relationship between the use of modality and readability levels oftexts, 2 opposing views have been raised. the first view endorses direct positiverelationship between modality and readability in the sense that the use of modalityincreases textual understandability. the second view is that the use of modality leadsto an increase in the number of words, resulting in readabilit...

Our purpose in this research is to quantitatively analyse how the communication of managerial knowledge realised articles written by experienced writers for publication and those produced graduate students as a course grade requirement. Specifically, we look at ways these construct their authorial identities (textually conveyed ‘voice’). To do so, combine Hyland’s (2008) interactional model voi...

This paper explores the outcomes of training pragmatics identifying metadiscourse devices that are used by content teachers enrolled on a course leading to university qualification for teaching in English within context Spanish-speaking country. Specifically, I focus analysis frequencies textual and interactional lecturers during an online as Medium Instruction (EMI) with aim use how it could a...

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