Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame
corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part …

Corpus linguistics studies real-life language use on the basis of a text corpus, drawing on
both quantitative and qualitative text analysis techniques. This article seeks to bridge the …

The present study explores the attitudes of novice teachers towards corpus-aided language
learning and teaching in an undergraduate writing course for multilingual students at a large …

We present a review of second language researchers' use of cluster analysis, an advanced
statistical method still uncommon but increasingly used to identify groups or patterns in a …

The knowledge of academic vocabulary is crucial for educational success, and recently
there has been a push amongst teachers and researchers to assist students at the pre …

This behavioural profiling (BP) study examines the use of the near-synonyms rang (讓), shi
(使) and ling (令), three ways to express cause-effect relationships in Chinese. Instead of …

Using the 400+ million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) as data
and a behavioral profile analysis approach, this study examines the semantic and usage …

This study investigated three synonymous verbs, teach, educate, and instruct, in terms of
their collocational patterns and distribution across genres. Data were drawn from the …

Synonymy is important but difficult for language learners to grasp. Using a forced-choice
question instrument, along with corpus data as reference, this study examines the use of four …

Via a corpus-based collocation analysis and a forced-choice questionnaire examination, this
study investigates the use of two sets of near-synonymous nouns: authority/power/right and …