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Corpora

An international, peer-reviewed journal of corpus linguistics focusing on the many and varied uses of corpora both in linguistics and beyond.

Print ISSN: 1749-5032 Online ISSN: 1755-1676

About this Journal

Corpora is an international, peer-reviewed journal of corpus linguistics focusing on the many and varied uses of corpora both in linguistics and beyond. The journal accepts articles presenting research findings based on the exploitation of corpora as well as accounts of corpus building, corpus tool construction and corpus annotation schemes.

The journal has three key features:

  • Theoretical inclusiveness: the journal will not be wed to one theoretical position. It will welcome and accommodate the work of a wide range of theorists using corpus data.
  • Interdisciplinarity: the journal will actively seek to promote a cross fertilization of ideas and techniques across a range of areas (applied linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, theoretical linguistics) and disciplines (e.g. cultural studies, historical studies, literary studies) in the belief that these areas have something to offer to each other through their common focus on corpus data.
  • Multilinguality: the journal will engage with the full range of human languages, not just the English language or major European languages.

Editors and Editorial Board

General Editor

Professor Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK

Commissioning Editor

Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK

Production Editor

Matthew Davies, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Reviews Editor

Randi Reppen, Northern Arizona University, USA

Editorial Board

Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham, UK
Jens Allwood, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Eric Brill, eBay, USA 
Ron Carter, University of Nottingham, UK
Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, USA
Hitoshi Goto, Tohoku University, Japan
Sylviane Granger, Université Catholique de Louvian, Belgium
Stefan Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Yueguo Gu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University, UK
Mike Hoey, Liverpool University, UK
Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham, UK
John Kirk, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland
Michaela Mahlberg, University of Birmingham, UK
Charles Meyer, University of Massachusetts, USA
Zuraidah Bte Mohd Don, University Malaya, Malaysia
John Newman, University of Alberta, Canada
Vincent Ooi, National University of Singapore
Pam Peters, Macquarie University, Australia
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Ute Römer, Georgia State University, USA
Tony Berber Sardinha, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
Josef Schmied, University of Chemnitz, Germany
Mike Scott, Aston University, UK
Irma Taavitsainen, Helsinki University, Finland
Stella Tagnin, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
Andrew Wilson, Lancaster University, UK
Yogendra Yadava, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Jidong Zhang, Shanghai International Studies University, China

Forthcoming Issues

Issue 11.2 Special issue on corpus approaches to evaluation

A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques
Nele Pöldvere, Matteo Fuoli and Carita Paradis

Discourse relations and evaluation
Radoslava Trnavac, Debopam Das and Maite Taboada

Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared via social media
Monika Bednarek

Frames, Polarity and Causation
Josef Ruppenhofer and Laura A. Michaelis

Say and stancetaking in courtroom talk: A corpus-assisted study
Magdalena Szczyrbak



Issue 11.3

The Use of Structural and Conceptual Features to Discriminate Between English Translations of Religious Texts
Emma Franklin and Michael Oakes

A Corpus-Based Investigation into the Use of a Core Word as a way to Identify Different Realisations of Semantically Related Formulaic Sequences and their Potential as a Marker of Authorial Style
Samuel Larner

Linguistic markers of sexism in the Italian media: a case study of ministra and ministro
Federica Formato

Factors influencing automatic segmental alignment of sociophonetic corpora
Robert Fromont and Kevin Watson

CLiC Dickens – Novel Uses of Concordances
Michaela Mahlberg, Peter Stockwell, Johan de Joode, Catherine Smith and Matthew Brook O’Donnell

Review: Hadikin, G. (2014) Korean English: A Corpus-Driven Study of a New English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ix-191.
Kyongson Park

Review: Lenko-Szymanska, A. & Boulton, A. (Eds.) (2015) Multiple Affordances of Language Corpora in Data-driven Learning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-312
Jon Smart



Issue 12.1

Comparing lexical bundles across the introduction, methods and results sections of the research article
Hesamoddin Shahriari

Subtopic annotation and automatic segmentation for news texts in Brazilian Portuguese
Paula Cardoso Thiago Pardo and ‎Maite Taboada

Healthcare professionals’ online use of Violence metaphors for care at the end of life in the US: A corpus-based comparison with the UK
Amanda Potts and Elena Semino

American television and off-screen registers: A corpus-based comparison
Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto

Complex anaphora with this: variation between three written argumentative genres
Peter Crompton

Review: Olza, I.; Loureda, O. & M. Casado-Velarde (eds). Language Use in the Public Sphere. Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Applications. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2014, pp. 564.  
Ricardo-María Jiménez Yáñez



Issue 12.2

Representations of immigrants and refugees in U.S. K-12 school-to-home correspondence: An exploratory corpus-assisted discourse study
Cynthia Berger, Eric Friginal and Jennifer Roberts

Explaining the Orthography-Phonology Interface in Written Corpora: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach
Yasemin Yildiz

Patterns of verbal agreement with collective nouns taking plural of-dependents: A corpus-based analysis on syntactic distance
Yolanda Fernández Pena

‘What is this corpus about?’ Using topic modeling to explore a specialized corpus
Akira Murakami, Paul Thompson, Susan Hunston, and Dominik Vajn

Intercultural online and face-to-face interaction: Keywords and key semantic domains
Yen-Liang Lin


Issue 12.3

Film subtitles as a corpus: An n-gram approach
Natalia Levshina

Varieties of non-obvious meaning and how we both uncover and stumble across them in CL and CADS
Alan Partington

Why are grammatical elements more evenly dispersed than lexical elements? Assessing the roles of text frequency and semantic generality
Martin Hilpert

Keep out of reach of children!
Introducing the Corpus of Product Information (CoPI) and its potential for corpus-based genre teaching
Sandra Gotz

Candidate Knowledge? Using tri-lexical clusters to identify hedging devices in scientific writing: A corpus-driven approach
Garry Plappert


Issue 13.1

Making Corpus Data Visible: Lessons for Visualising Text For and With Non-Experts
Will Allen 

Text types in Brazilian Portuguese: A multidimensional perspective
Tony Berber-Sardinha 

On the syntactic status of "I'm sure"
Henrik Kaatari

Using corpus methods to explore a survey on inter-religious relations in Yorubaland, southwest Nigeria
Rebecca Jones, M. Insa Nolte and Clyde Ancarno