This paper describes the collection and analysis of the most recent edition of the Brown
family, the BE21 corpus, consisting of 1 million words of written British English texts …

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the
grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even …

This applied study assesses the degree to which speakers re-use and acknowledge parts of
one another's utterances. This form of alignment is called resonance (;), and is a decisive …

In this paper, paying tribute is analyzed as an emergent ritual for national commemoration at
British Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs). This study draws on data taken from some of the …

This Element is a contribution to a new generation of corpus pragmatics research by taking
as its starting point the multifaceted nature of speech acts in conversation, and by adopting a …

Previous academic research has argued that videogames are represented as violent in the
media, and that these representations provide a justification to study videogames as a social …

The decline of certain core modals in English, including may and might, is a well-
documented phenomenon (cf. Daugs 2017). It is less clear, however, whether this tendency …

The overarching aim of this research monograph is to address the following question: what
meanings do speakers of English conceptualize when they encounter, use and create …

Existing studies have described the diachronic development of modals in early periods, or
their uses in more recent times. Works with a synchronic orientation have examined modals …

The aim of this thesis is twofold: first, to determine whether a group of Spanish-native adult
speakers and six groups of English-Spanish bilinguals are able to differentiate modal …