Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

Routledge Applied Linguistics is a series of comprehensive textbooks, providing students
and researchers with the support they need for advanced study in the core areas of English …

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to
the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the …

This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and
diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray argue that, although historical …

This book started its life as a thesis. However, it would never have been started at all without
the support of my friends, colleagues and family. My thesis examiners, Andreas Jucker, Katie …

Corpus linguistics uses large electronic databases of language to examine hypotheses
about language use. These can be tested scientifically with computerised analytical tools …

Historical (or diachronic) speech act analysis has been gathering momentum in recent years
(eg Arnovick 1999; Culpeper and Semino 2000; Jucker and Taavitsainen 2000; …

The present work is a quantitative and qualitative investigation of all forms of the second
person singular pronouns thou and you (including the determiners thy and your) 1 in Early …

In this paper we focus on automatic part-of-speech (POS) annotation, in the context of
historical English texts. Techniques that were originally developed for modern English have …

In this paper, we investigate how deep learning techniques can be applied to discourse
pragmatics. As a testcase we analyse heuristic textual practices, defined as linguistic …