Writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. In this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...

Corpus linguistic and language technological research needs empirical corpus data with nearly correct annotation and high volume to enable advances in language modelling and theorising. Recent work on improving corpus annotation accuracy presents semiautomatic methods to correct some of the analysis errors in available annotated corpora, while leaving the remaining errors undetected in the anno...

This paper describes the design, analysis and utilization of a simultaneous interpretation corpus. The corpus has been constructed at the Center for Integrated Acoustic Information Research (CIAIR) of Nagoya University in order to promote the realization of the multi-lingual communication supporting environment. The size of transcribed data is about 1 million words, and the corpus would deserve...

this article studies the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian news website entitled modern ghana. a total of 87 articles comprising 43752 words were retrieved. van leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actors was utilised to examine the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian press. in this regard, six applicable tools were used and these include exclusion, role...

background: x-linked lissencephaly with ambiguous genitalia (xlag) is a recently described genetic disorder, in which patients present with lissencephaly, agenesis of the corpus callosum, refractory epilepsy of neonatal onset, acquired microcephaly, and male genotype with ambiguous genitalia. xlag is responsible for a severe neurological disorder of neonatal onset in boys. a gyration defect con...