Abstract Legal discourse is widely assumed to be resistant change, and indeed legislative documents are extremely conservative with fixed formulaic structures. However, recent research has shown that changes can observed in the lexico-grammatical features of some legal when examined diachronically, particularly since emergence 1970s Plain Language Movement, which sought draw attention unnecessa...

In response to the reform in education proposed by Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) Vietnam, pendulum most teaching learning activities has swung their concentration communicative competence-based approaches. Developing competence amongst students English received tons effort from related stakeholders such as teachers, students, educators, researchers policy makers. The number studies ...

Formulaic expressions, such as ‘in this paper we propose’, are helpful for authors of scholarly papers because they convey communicative functions; in the above, it is ‘showing aim paper’. Thus, resources formulaic a dictionary, that could be looked up easily would useful. However, forms expressions can often vary to great extent. For example, study propose’ and propose new method to’ all regar...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji implementasi ekspresi formulaik dalam kelas Bahasa Inggris sebagai Asing (EFL) di SMA Islam YASPIA. Studi berfokus pada penilaian keefektifan penggunaan pendekatan leksikal, khususnya melalui instruksi Ms. Lavender, seorang guru bahasa sekolah tersebut. Temuan mengungkapkan bahwa penerapan leksikal mengajar relatif tidak rumit bagi guru. Para sisw...

BACKGROUND The primary method for scientific communication is in the form of published scientific articles and theses which use natural language combined with domain-specific terminology. As such, they contain free owing unstructured text. Given the usefulness of data extraction from unstructured literature, we aim to show how this can be achieved for the discipline of chemistry. The highly for...

The present article focuses on exploring formulemes in English and Ukrainian from a translatological perspective. multiword units under study constitute specific type of clichés alongside nickname clichés, termemes sentencemes. distinctive characteristic this class phrasemes is that they designate ritualized speech act which correlates with an internal state the speaker, moment time, or event a...

Corpus linguistics has been in the spotlight for the last decade, with the usage of modern computers and technologies deeper understanding of languages can be obtained. Corpus linguistics helps language teaching for acquiring a better view for language. Language teachers will know what sequence of words and patters tend to co-occur. Unlike previous enormous lists of words which students were fo...

Foreign language (FL) knowledge has been shown to contribute significantly to FL reading performance. Studies have contrasted the contribution of FL vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, following a dichotomous view of these components, producing mixed results. Despite the increasingly recognized formulaic nature of language, the contribution made by phraseological knowledge to reading ability ha...

Marchand, Tim. 2013. Speech in written form? A corpus analysis of computer-mediated communication. Linguistic Research 30(2), 217-242. This paper investigates the nature of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and examine whether CMC more closely resembles written or spoken language in its structure and organization. The CMC in this paper refers to messages posted on the BBC’s Have Your Say we...