ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Three important Anglo-Saxon medical texts from the 10th century contain herbal formulations for over 250 plant species, many of which have yet to be evaluated for their phytochemical and/or pharmacological properties. In this study, three native British plants were selected to determine antimicrobial activity relevant to treating bacterial infections and wounds. ...

Lexicographical and terminological work is increasingly dependent on the analysis of texts, particularly texts organised in a corpus and being made available through computer systems. We argue that the developments in corpus linguistics, artificial intelligence, connection sciences, and lexicography and terminology, can be conjoined together to analyse the various facets of a text. In particula...

Formulaic language and sequence as the core characteristic of real-life language and native-like fluency, has been a subject of inquiry in recent decades. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of two extensive reading text types, i.e., adaptive and authentic, on Iranian EFL learners’ development of lexical bundles. To this aim, 20 intermediate EFL learners were chosen to pa...

Classical Arabic poetry, which constitutes an important aspect of Islamic Civilization, has a critical function in understanding texts, especially the Qur'an and hadith. In this context, poetry Jahiliyyah, is source Qur'an's style its expressive power (expression/utterance), terms having mentioned function. The work, was introduced, fills significant gap field by referring to indicated poem Jah...

Large quantities of spelling variation in corpora, such as that found in Early Modern English, can cause significant problems for corpus linguistic tools and methods. Having texts with standardised spelling is key to making such tools and methods accurate and meaningful in their analysis. Gaining access to such versions of texts can be problematic however, and manual standardisation of the text...

Refutation texts are beneficial for removing misconceptions and supporting comprehension in science. Whether these beneficial effects hold true in the domain of statistics is, however, an open question. Moreover, the role of refutation texts for the accuracy in judging one’s own comprehension (metacomprehension accuracy) has received little attention. Therefore, we conducted an experiment in wh...

THEPAST FIVE YEARS has seen a rapid increase in the publication of electronic texts in all humanities disciplines including English and American literature. Librarians need to know more about the characteristics and use of electronic texts and text banks in order to meet the changing expectations of students and scholars. To that end, this article will examine the major electronic editions of S...

The AAC [Austrian Academy Corpus] is a corpus research institution based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. The AAC is a very large and complex electronic text collection. Its aims are to create an innovative text corpus and to conduct scholarly and scientific research in the field of electronic text corpora. In the first phase of the corpus build up the AAC is committed to have at ...