this paper investigates the use of ‘lexical bundles’ in two broad corpora of journalistic writing. the aim of this study is to compare the use of lexical bundles in the two domains, one consisted of newspaper articles written in english and published in england and the other one comprised of newspaper articles written in persian from iranian publications. for this purpose, the frequency of occu...

This article considers the problem of how to bring foreign language students with a limited vocabulary knowledge, consisting mainly of high-frequency words, to the point where they are able to adequately comprehend authentic texts in a target domain or genre. It proposes bridging the vocabulary gap by first determining which word families account for 95% of the target domain's running words, an...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Comparison of journalistic and spontaneous speech: analysis of sequences between pauses. In this study we compare the ESTER corpus of journalistic speech (Galliano et al., 2005) and the NCCF corpus of spontaneous speech (Torreira et al, 2010) in terms of duration, f0 and spectral reduction i...

The paper regards the electronic communication from the point of view of text typology. This problem has rather practical, than theoretical significance, taking into consideration the problems of the text selection for a representative corpus and of their annotation. But to solve this practical problem we need to solve a set of theoretical ones. The main theoretical obstacle we ought to surmoun...

This paper presents the CIC UALG’s system that took part in the Discriminating between Similar Languages (DSL) shared task, held at the VarDial 2017 Workshop. This year’s task aims at identifying 14 languages across 6 language groups using a corpus of excerpts of journalistic texts. Two classification approaches were compared: a single-step (all languages) approach and a two-step (language grou...