This study investigates whether re-thinking the separation of lexis and grammar in language testing could lead to more valid inferences about proficiency across modes. As argued by Römer, typical scoring rubrics ignore important information encoded at lexis–grammar interface, particular how co-selection lexical grammatical features is mediated communicative function. especially evident when ass...

Care bundles aim to improve standard of care and patient outcome by promoting the consistent implementation of a group of effective interventions. However, a variety of barriers prevent their full application in clinical practice. Here, we discuss some of the benefits and limitations of care bundles in the delivery of safer and more effective and consistent health care.

Formulaic language, characterized by phraseological patterns such as lexical bundles, has been observed to significantly influence the discourse of speakers and writers. These tend differ across genres disciplines. However, examination formulaic language in evaluative genres, particularly different disciplines, relatively limited. This study aims explore use review feedback on manuscripts submi...

Based on a corpus-driven analysis of two translated versions Hongloumeng (one by David Hawkes and the other Xianyi Yang Gladys Yang) in parallel corpora, this article investigates use lexical bundles an attempt to trace stylistic features differences translations produced respective translators. The corpus is developed at sentence level facilitate co-occurrence source texts corresponding transl...

Our affective perspective on a word is heavily influenced by the context in which it is used and by the features it is typically perceived to exhibit in that context. A nuanced model of lexical affect thus requires a feature-rich representation of each word’s potential to mean different things in different contexts. To this end, we present here a two-level model of lexical affect. At the first ...