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A corpus-based analysis of gendered language in spoken religious discourse 基于语料库的宗教口语话语性别语言分析

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100137

Abdelhamid Elewa

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100136

Sak Lee

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100135

Amber Wanwen Wang

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What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions 语料库能告诉我们关于学校写作的什么？发现、挑战和未来方向

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100134

Philip Durrant

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Vaccine and vaccination in parliamentary discourse in Brazilian Portuguese during COVID-19: Analysis of relational processes

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100133

Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100132

Siaw-Fong Chung

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Investigating writing development, cross-linguistic influence and feedback practices through a longitudinal corpus of children’s school writing 通过儿童学校写作的纵向语料库调查写作发展，跨语言影响和反馈实践

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100131

Hildegunn Dirdal , Eva Thue Vold

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On the replicability of corpus-derived medical word lists 论语料库衍生医学词表的可复制性

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-04-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100130

Cosmin Mihail Florescu, Ryosuke L. Ohniwa

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A corpus analysis of prepositional phrase-lexical bundles in academic writing: L2 writers from Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages 学术写作中介词短语-词汇束的语料库分析：来自印欧语和非印欧语的二语作家

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100128

Ku Yunjung (Yunie)

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Changing roles of patient information leaflets in the UK: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis 患者信息传单在英国的角色变化：语料库辅助语篇分析

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100129

Nicola Pelizzari

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