The volume examines the role of context in the production and reception of historical news texts from the 17th until the 20th centuries. The authors use various methodological approaches comprising historical pragmatics and corpus linguistics. The volume is divided into: British News Contexts, International News Contexts, and Advertising Contexts
The volume examines the role of context in the production and reception of historical news texts from the 17th until the 20th centuries. The authors u...
This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The data are retrieved from parliamentary discourse and conversations corpora.
This book explores if/si-constructions in spoken English, French and Spanish, from a functional-pragmatic and corpus-based perspective. The data are r...
The book presents ground-breaking research on evidentiality and epistemic modality. The theoretical papers address inferential evidence and challengeability. The descriptive papers mostly follow a corpus-based contrastive methodology, uncovering discourse-pragmatic features of diverse languages.
The book presents ground-breaking research on evidentiality and epistemic modality. The theoretical papers address inferential evidence and challengea...
This book illustrates the complex ways language operates within specific professional and academic contexts. Through a series of meticulously conducted corpus-based studies, the volume explores the unique linguistic features and rhetorical strategies that characterize specialized discourses across various fields, including medicine, engineering, and the humanities. It examines key aspects such as metadiscourse markers, rhetorical structures of research articles, and the customization of vocabulary tools to enhance language learning and professional communication. By revealing patterns and...
This book illustrates the complex ways language operates within specific professional and academic contexts. Through a series of meticulously condu...
Hybrid text production today comprises machine translation chunks, human-produced paragraphs modelled on the writer's L1, and generative AI contributions via prompting. This book explores how corpus-based cross-linguistic studies can contribute to building and optimising Natural Language Generation in multilingual contexts. The aim is to show how rich linguistic annotation can provide valuable data to enhance and refine hybrid text production. Corpus data are mined from CLANES, a multilayer English-Spanish comparable corpus annotated for PoS, semantic, rhetorical and pragmatic information....
Hybrid text production today comprises machine translation chunks, human-produced paragraphs modelled on the writer's L1, and generative AI contrib...