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Representations of obesity in Australian and UK news coverage: A diachronic comparison 澳大利亚和英国新闻报道中对肥胖的表述：异时空比较

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100092

Luke C. Collins , Paul Baker , Gavin Brookes

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‘Luxurious’ metaphors in luxury hotel websites in Singapore and Hong Kong: A mixed-methods study 新加坡和香港豪华酒店网站中的 "奢华 "隐喻：混合方法研究

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100090

Joanna Zhuoan Chen, Kathleen Ahrens, Dennis Tay

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Using early LLMs for corpus linguistics: Examining ChatGPT's potential and limitations 利用早期法学硕士进行语料库语言学研究：检验 ChatGPT 的潜力和局限性

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100089

Satoru Uchida

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here-, there-, and every where-: Exploring the role of pronominal adverbs in legal language here-, there-, and every where-：探索代词副词在法律语言中的作用

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100087

David Chandler, Brett Hashimoto

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War in law: A corpus linguistic study of the lexical item war in the laws of war 法律中的战争：战争法中战争词项的语料库语言学研究

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100088

Annabelle Lukin , Alexandra García Marrugo

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Talking across the interdisciplinary aisle: A guide for legal and corpus-linguistic scholars and practitioners 跨学科对话：法律和语料库学者及从业人员指南

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100086

Stefan Th. Gries , Tammy Gales

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A corpus-based developmental investigation of linguistic complexity in children's writing 基于语料库的儿童写作语言复杂性发展调查

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100084

Yaling Hsiao , Nicola J. Dawson , Nilanjana Banerji , Kate Nation

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Corpus-based tool: A digital science collocation list for multilingual middle school learners 基于语料库的工具：面向多语种初中生的数字科学搭配表

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2024.100085

Rebeca Arndt

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Applied corpus linguistics and legal interpretation: A rapidly developing field of interdisciplinary scholarship 应用语料库语言学和法律解释：快速发展的跨学科学术领域

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100080

Ute Römer-Barron , Clark D. Cunningham

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Linguistic variation in functional types of statutory law 成文法功能类型的语言差异

Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100081

Margaret Wood

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