This paper surveys a variety of methodological problems in current quantitative corpus linguistics. Some problems discussed are from corpus linguistics in general, such as the impact that dispersion, type frequencies/ entropies, and directionality (should) have on the computation of association measures as well as the impact that neglecting the sampling structure of a corpus can have on a stati...

despite the importance of hedging in academic productions, its use in different disciplines and genres has been given little attention (hyland, 1998; crystal, 1995). more precisely, the role of different genders as contributors to this social phenomenon (i.e., research articles) has been taken as neutral, as if gender is inconsequential in identity construction. the studies done in english sugg...


 The article presents a pragmatic and textual proposal applied to the analysis of religious texts. For this purpose, Christian texts are examined; specifically, Gospel St. Matthew works Richard Rohr. methodological fields positive results and, course, confirms possibility opening up field applications that has been little investigated now.

Judit Ács Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences [email protected] Abstract We describe a method for expanding existing dictionaries in several languages by discovering previously non-existent links between translations. We call this method triangulation and we present and compare several variations of it. We assess precision manually, and recall by comparing the ...

The aim of the present investigation is to examine applied linguistics and english language teaching. Many resent researches concerned with applied linguistics have led to a phenomenon to resolve language problems in general and in particular english language. In general, language phenomenon is complex. Finegan and Besiner defined language as a finite system of elements and principles that make...

The purpose of the present study is to analyse abstracts related to Applied Linguistics, and more precisely the discourse functions of grammatical subjects and verbs. The corpus consisted of 50 PhD thesis abstracts written on the subject of Applied Linguistics. All of the abstracts were written from 2010 to 2014. The theses from which the abstracts were extracted are available in the ProQuest d...

previous research has identified the nominal group as the most distinctive feature of the research article title. in contrast, the findings reported in this paper suggest theme/rheme is the dominant structure in title text. theme/rheme structures order and tie nominal groups in titles. when a title starts with a methodological term the first position nominal group acts as a theme marker. thus, ...

The purpose of the present study is to analyse abstracts related to Applied Linguistics, and more precisely the discourse functions of grammatical subjects and verbs. The corpus consisted of 50 PhD thesis abstracts written on the subject of Applied Linguistics. All of the abstracts were written from 2010 to 2014. The theses from which the abstracts were extracted are available in the ProQuest d...

Contact Linguistics, throughout its history, has been mostly a data-oriented subdiscipline. From the gathering of word lists in colonial settings by pioneer scholars to the current compilation of narratives, interviews and databanks, Contact Linguistics, differently from other Linguistics subdisciplines, has strived to base its findings on the analysis of actual language produced by speakers of...