Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which
both covers theory and applies it to real spoken and written data. This textbook …

The Teacher-Student Chatroom Corpus (TSCC) is a collection of written conversations
captured during one-to-one lessons between teachers and learners of English. The lessons …

Intimate discourse–that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-
professional settings–lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and …

We define discourse as the process of creating meanings in contexts.'Meaning in
context'entails bridging the gap between the system and communicative acts. In respect of …

This article is part of a larger study on teachers' co-construction of social support on a social
networking site. The aim of this article is to elucidate how a topic introduced in the Facebook …

The paper describes the project of RuTOC-a corpus of online lessons in Russian as a
foreign language-and presents the first results of corpus analysis. The corpus RuTOC …

Эта книга–практическое руководство по применению методов текст майнинга
(интеллектуального анализа текста) для анализа big data–больших массивов …

In this article we look at some basic features of interaction and compare their occurrence
and functions in everyday English conversation with their use in academic speaking. The …