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Corrigendum to “here-, there-, and every where-: Exploring the role of pronominal adverbs in legal language” [Applied Corpus Linguistics Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024) 100087]

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100112

David Chandler, Brett Hashimoto

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Lexical complexity in academic lectures: Comparative analysis of EMI and Non-EMI settings and influential factors 学术讲座中的词汇复杂性：EMI 和非 EMI 环境及影响因素的比较分析

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100115

Chen Chen , Philip Durrant

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Getting into bed with embeddings? A comparison of collocations and word embeddings for corpus-assisted discourse analysis 与嵌入词同床共枕？用于语料库辅助话语分析的搭配和词嵌入比较

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100117

Jordan Batchelor

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Examining in-service senior high school English teachers’ perspectives on corpus use and the effects of corpus training 考察在职高中英语教师对语料库使用的看法和语料库培训的效果

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100116

Hsiao-Ling Hsu , Shu-Li Lai , Hao-Jan Howard Chen

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Conventionalized phrases and disability policy: A corpus analysis of 2-year and 4-year public colleges in California 常规用语和残疾政策：加州两年制和四年制公立学院语料库分析

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100113

Stephen Eyman

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The effects of teacher, peer and self-feedback on error correction with corpus use 教师、同伴和自我反馈对使用语料库纠错的影响

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100114

Yoshiho Satake

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Investigating the visual content of a commercialized academic listening test: Implications for validity 调查商业化学术听力测试的视觉内容：对有效性的影响

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100109

Zhuohan Hou , Vahid Aryadoust , Azrifah Zakaria

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Corpus linguistics will benefit from greater adoption of pre-registration: A novice-friendly split-corpus approach to pre-registration 语料库语言学将从更多采用预注册中受益：预注册的新手友好型分割语料库方法

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100111

Matthew H.C. Mak

{"title":"Corpus linguistics will benefit from greater adoption of pre-registration: A novice-friendly split-corpus approach to pre-registration","authors":"Matthew H.C. Mak","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this brief article, I contend that the field of corpus linguistics stands to gain significantly from an increased adoption of pre-registration. Pre-registration serves to constrain the almost infinite degree of analytic freedom inherent in corpus analysis, thereby enhancing the transparency, reliability, and potential impact of corpus research. While pre-registration is increasingly popular in fields such as psychology and medicine, its uptake in corpus linguistics remains notably limited. To facilitate the transition toward pre-registration, I describe a straightforward split-corpus approach, ideally suited for corpus linguists new to pre-registration and for both hypothesis-testing and exploratory research. This method involves dividing a corpus into an exploratory set (20–40 % of the corpus) and a confirmatory set (the remaining 60–80 %). The exploratory set allows researchers to freely generate hypotheses and develop analysis plans, while the confirmatory set is then used for a more structured and objective analysis according to the pre-specified protocols. By employing this approach, corpus linguists can effectively balance exploratory flexibility with the rigour of confirmatory analysis, boosting the reliability of corpus findings. An increased uptake of pre-registration may not only bolster recognition of corpus linguistics as a robust empirical field, but it may also encourage a stronger emphasis on the building of cumulative knowledge.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Breach of pacta sunt servanda: A corpus-assisted analysis of newspaper discourse on the AUKUS agreement 违反 "条约必须遵守"：对报纸上有关《奥库斯协定》的言论进行语料库辅助分析

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100108

Radoslava Trnavac , Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio

{"title":"Breach of pacta sunt servanda: A corpus-assisted analysis of newspaper discourse on the AUKUS agreement","authors":"Radoslava Trnavac , Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The AUKUS agreement,<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> a strategic pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, primarily aimed to facilitate Australia's acquisition of eight nuclear-powered submarines from the US and Britain. This agreement led to the abrupt termination of a previous contract with France's state-owned Naval Group. This article examines the language used in media coverage of the AUKUS agreement in newspapers from various Anglophone and Asian countries. Employing a combination of Sentiment Analysis (Crossley et al., 2017) and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (Partington, 2013; Gillings et al., 2023), we focus on identifying key linguistic patterns, themes, and the sentiment embedded in the discourse. Our findings indicate a general positive assessment of AUKUS in the Anglophone media, contrasted with negative portrayals in Chinese publications. Moreover, the analysis of linguistic components such as adjectives, nouns, and verbs reveals underlying complexities and conflicting viewpoints within the Anglophone discourse itself. By applying Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, we uncover the contextual and linguistic factors that shape these diverse perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"4 3","pages":"Article 100108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142437801","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}

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Identifying ChatGPT-generated texts in EFL students’ writing: Through comparative analysis of linguistic fingerprints 识别英语语言学生写作中由 ChatGPT 生成的文本：通过语言指纹的比较分析

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100106

Atsushi Mizumoto , Sachiko Yasuda , Yu Tamura

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