{"title":"A corpus study of the term evidence in open peer reviews to research articles in the British Medical Journal","authors":"Ingrid García-Ostbye, Barry Pennock-Speck","doi":"10.32714/ricl.10.01.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.10.01.07","url":null,"abstract":"The linguistic study of peer-review discourse has focused principally on pre-publication occluded referee reports. However, there are few studies on post-publication open peer reviews of research articles. To address this imbalance, we analyse a type of open peer review, Online Rapid Responses (ORRs) to articles, in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which is the leading medical e-journal. Using a corpus-based approach, we focus on the term evidence owing to its importance in scientific discourse. We compiled an ad-hoc corpus of 875 ORRs (260,651 tokens) and analysed it using Wordsmith Tools 6 to ascertain the frequency of evidence. We then compared its frequency in our corpus with the British National Corpus (BNC), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the COCA academic subcorpus, the Cambridge Academic English Corpus (CAEC) and the sub-corpus of reviews in the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus (LOB-C). We also performed a keyness analysis of our corpora to ascertain the position of evidence and obtained the contexts in which it appears. Our analysis reveals that evidence is more frequent in our corpus of ORRs than in general and academic corpora, which highlights its importance in the evaluation of research. Our exploration of its contexts of use show that it reflects the concern of the medical academy for evidence appraisal in state-of-the art medicine.","PeriodicalId":350362,"journal":{"name":"Research in Corpus Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123344336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of social prestige on Pino Cacucci’s work: A corpus-based study","authors":"Virginia Mattioli","doi":"10.32714/ricl.11.01.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.11.01.02","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses Pino Cacucci’s work as a translator and travel writer in order to assess the influence of social prestige on his behaviour when facing otherness. Both translation and travel writing relate different linguistic and cultural contexts to one another. The textual elements representing such linguistic and cultural encounters are foreign words, and their treatment —in terms of maintenance or adaptation— can be used as an indicator of the author’s position towards the foreign. From here, the study examines the treatment of foreign words identified in three novels written or translated by Cacucci. Following a corpus-based methodology, the techniques used to transpose foreign words from the source to the target context are determined and related to exoticism (if they maintain the original form) or domestication (if the foreign element is translated or adapted to the target language). Finally, the results are contrasted with the current literary canon. The outcomes reveal a greater acceptance of otherness in the most prestigious novels, in terms of textual practice (translation/travel writing) and linguistic variety (peninsular/Argentinian Spanish), showing the influence of social prestige on the author’s behaviour and suggesting some reflections about the relationship between social recognition and acceptance of otherness.","PeriodicalId":350362,"journal":{"name":"Research in Corpus Linguistics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122440441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The compilation of a developmental spoken English corpus of Turkish EFL learners","authors":"Ece Genç-Yöntem, Evrim Eveyik-Aydın","doi":"10.32714/ricl.10.01.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.10.01.03","url":null,"abstract":"Although compiling a spoken learner corpus is not a recent enterprise, the number of developmental learner spoken corpora in the field of corpus linguistics is not satisfactory. This report describes the compilation of the Yeditepe Spoken Corpus of Learner English (YESCOLE), a 119,787-word corpus of Turkish students’ spoken English at tertiary level. YESCOLE was compiled to generate a developmental corpus of spoken interlanguage by collecting samples from learners of different English proficiency levels at regular short intervals over seven months. In order to shed light on the laborious methodology of compiling the developmental spoken learner corpus, this paper elucidates the steps taken to build YESCOLE and discusses its potential benefits for research and instructional purposes.","PeriodicalId":350362,"journal":{"name":"Research in Corpus Linguistics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131377782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Carrió-Pastor, María Luisa ed. 2020. Corpus Analysis in Different Genres: Academic Discourse and Learner Corpora. London: Routledge.\u0000ISBN: 978-0-367-49993-8. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367815905","authors":"Nanxi Bian, G. Lan","doi":"10.32714/ricl.10.02.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32714/ricl.10.02.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":350362,"journal":{"name":"Research in Corpus Linguistics","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123221762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}