Teacher talk plays an important role in second-language classroom interaction. Studies are informed by multiple theories and yet could be classified under two general approaches, i.e., cognitive social. The approaches provide different but complementary perspectives on the of teacher interaction, with a focus either learners' change or their social participation. A conversation between them is ...

Linguistic theory and Translation Studies have a long, if somewhat turbulent, history. Even now, in some institutions Translation Studies is placed in the field of Applied Linguistics, whereas in others it is subsumed under Cultural Studies. This is perhaps a sign of something that now few would doubt: that the phenomenon of translation, in its many forms, is manifold and can (and should) be ap...

In this paper we analyze a variety of standard techniques used in corpus linguistics and examine a number of issues relating to incorrect usage, the computational infeasibility of various approaches, and the inevitable sampling errors. We motivate much of the paper with applications from information retrieval but the techniques discussed and introduced are far more widely applicable, and some a...

We consider several types of literary-theoretic approaches to literary text analysis; we describe several concepts from Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence that could be used to model