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OUT NOW: Guest Editor David Wright introduces the Special Issue on Corpus perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

Wright draws out the themes explored across the papers in the issue, as indicative of the cutting edge of forensic linguistics – showing what corpus studies can do!

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A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of (Dis)Interest and (Un)Importance frames in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts Abstract This study presents a corpus-assisted discourse analysis examining the semantic frames of (Dis)Interest and (Un)Importance in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts. With the...

OUT NOW: Jamie McKeown and Haojie Deng show how corpus tools can assist in the exploration of semantic frames, as investigated in leave to appeal decisions from Hong Kong

This paper will appear as part of our Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

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Continuum of stance in law Abstract Stance is deep-rooted in law, where legal values can never stand in a vacuum. Despite a growing body of literature on stance in legal genres, cross-genre examinations conducted from a corpus-...

OUT NOW: the next paper to appear in our Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

Le Cheng, Xiuli Liu & Jian Li present a continuum of stance as derived from a cross-genre examination of stance expressions in legislation, judgments and legal academic articles

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“…animated by a number of fundamental principles” Abstract The aim of this paper is to combine a quantitative analysis of indicators of pragmatic argumentation with a qualitative investigation of the argument scheme in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ir...

OUT NOW: Davide Mazzi explores argument structures in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ireland’s judgments on human rights, based on indicators of pragmatic argumentation.

This paper appears as part of our Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on #LegalDiscourse

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OUT NOW – the next contribution to our forthcoming Special Issue on Corpus Perspectives on Legal Discourse:

Edward Clay presents a systematic approach for identifying indicators of divergence, comparing terms relating to migration in EU legal documents and news articles

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OUT NOW: Biel, Wasilewska & Koźbiał explore linguistic variation in the Polish Eurolect, applying MDA to a corpus of legal acts, judgments, administrative reports, and institutional websites.

This paper will appear as part of our Special Issue on #ForensicLinguistics

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LATEST BOOK REVIEWS:

Gili Diamant reviews Fitzgerald (2023) and reflects on the use of oral testimonies for historical research
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Philine Metzger reviews Vyatkina's (2024) application of Data-Driven Learning for English instruction in Germany
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OUT NOW: Jia Li and Xianyao Hu compare human- and machine-translated texts from Chinese to English to evaluate features of conservatism across registers

Their investigation sheds light on the potetnial of human-machine collaborative translation models

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OUT NOW: Rose Stamp provides a comprehensive review of the current state of sign language corpora around the world – discussing video capture, transcription, and coding and how these relate to corpus compilation in terms of representativeness, searchability and open access

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la semaine prochaine
but
la raison suivante

Looi, Riget, Boulton & Hassan discuss synonym alternation between French prochain and suivant, using corpus evidence and statistical methods to re-examine variables derived through introspection

#OnlineFirst #FrenchLinguistics

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OUT NOW: @leighharrington.bsky.social , @drkevingerigk.bsky.social & Maria Fano Gonzalez offer a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of representations of fuel poverty and the (new) fuel poor in UK newspapers

Work carried out in association with fuelpovertyresearch.net

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"I feel a wave of affection.."
"il sera fou de joie…"

OUT NOW: Iva Novakova, Olivier Kraif, & Marion Gymnich's contrastive corpus analysis sheds light on the phraseological motifs observed in the French and English romance novel genre.

#LiteraryGenre #CorpusStylistics

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spooktacular, momfluencer, pupperazi..

How do combining forms operate and what meaning is transferred?

Jinhong Huang and Yongwei Gao examine the evidence for 10 combining forms in American English to map out their schematic extensions and stability

#WordFormation

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OUT NOW: Fonteyn, Manjavacas & De Regt show how large predictive language models can be used to (semi-)automatically annotate corpus data.

In this example, Early Modern English -ing forms are automatically classified by means of the historical English model MacBERTh.

#BERT

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#reproducibility #replicability #robustness

This paper appears as part of our Special Issue: Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics,
from guest editors Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh.

A reminder of the contributions to this issue:
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OUT NOW: Maud Reveilhac and @geraldschneider.bsky.social present a replication study, applying their approach to stance detection to social media data.

Their model is shown to be transferable and performs competitively alongside other machine learning methods.

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That's right: remmeber life before the Covid-19 pandemic?

@journolinguist.bsky.social explores potential nostalgic markers in news about Covid as a methodological reflection on hypothesis-testing in #corpuslinguistics

What do we learn when we don't get expected results?
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OUT NOW: Alan Partington and @diegolieugenia.bsky.social advance Lexical Priming (LP) theory, responding to Michael Hoey's desire that the theory be tested on discourse types that go beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English – in this instance, Japanese.

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OUT NOW: Qiao Gan and Min Wang examine divergence in the probabilistic grammar of the dative alternation between native English speakers and Chinese EFL learners.

Perceptual salience and processing load are shown to be factors determining use of English dative alternation.

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OUT NOW: Heng Gong, Feng Cao & Lingling Liu compare the use of interactive metadiscourse features in research articles written by Chinese scholars in Chinese and in English, alongside L1 English texts.

How do writers adapt to the different language contexts?
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OUT NOW: Lieselotte Brems reviews Daniela Landert's 'Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics: Espistemic Stance in Early Modern English' - published by John Benjamins in 2024.

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And William Platt offers a critical summary of Gries (2024) ‘Frequency, dispersion, association, and keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures’ (John Benjamins) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Wenwen Guan reviews Stoltz & Taylor’s (2024) ‘Mapping texts: Computational text analysis for the social sciences’ (Oxford University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst.

Starting with:
Ding Huang’s review of Meyer (2023), ‘English corpus linguistics: An introduction’ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...