Corpus Analysis in Different Genres

María Luisa Carrió-Pastor is Professor of English Language at the Department of Applied Linguistics at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.

• INTRODUCTIONMaría Luisa Carrió-Pastor SECTION 1. CORPUS STUDIES ON ACADEMIC DISCOURSEChapter 1. Variation in the use of self-mentions in different specific fields of knowledge in academic EnglishMaría Luisa Carrió-PastorChapter 2. The expression of gratitude in the prefaces of academic books in linguisticsFrancisco Alonso-AlmeidaChapter 3. Criticism in Russian academic book reviews of the soviet and post-soviet periodsAlisa KriukovaChapter 4. Modal verb categories in English medical abstracts Elena Quintana Toledo Margarita Esther Sánchez CuervoChapter 5. A disciplinary analysis of fairly in late modern English scientific writingFrancisco J. Álvarez-GilChapter 6. An analysis of lexical bundles in English academic journal descriptionsDavide Simone Giannoni Chapter 7. Collaborating with disciplinary experts in corpus compilation processesIsabel Herrando-RodrigoChapter 8. Researching academic genres, language and discourse with computer assisted qualitative data analysis softwareAna Bocanegra-Valle SECTION 2. STUDIES ON LEARNER CORPORA Chapter 9. A corpus-driven exploration of discourse markers in L2 academic textsVišnja Pavičić TakačBarbara Kružić Sanja Vakanjac Ivezić Chapter 10. Personal metadiscoursive markers in a final degree dissertations corpus on education sciences Francisco Núñez-RománChapter 11. Interactional metadiscourse features in the written production made by Spanish EFL learnersChiara TassoChapter 12. Intercultural rhetoric in the written academic discourse: the rhetorical function of citation in English and Spanish by college students and expert writersDavid Sánchez-JiménezChapter 13. Measuring linguistic complexity and proficiency in learner academic EnglishJavier Pérez GuerraChapter 14. A new linguistic corpus in Catalan and the teaching of languages for specific purposes at universityAnna Montesinos LópezFrancesca Romero FortezaChapter 15. Overused bundles in the written academic English of Spanish EFL studentsMiguel Fuster-Márquez Jesús Fernández-DomínguezChapter 16. Verbs of vision in academic discourse: variations in the use of their non-literal senses in L1 expert, L1 non-expert and L2 non-expert writingHanna SkorczynskaChapter 17. Showing emotion in academic discourse. A pragmatic analysisEva M. Mestre-MestreChapter 18. Proofreading, the net and foreign language anxiety in the use of apology formulae in an online forum. A learner corpus study Milagros Torrado-Cespón

'The book is of interest to scholars and teachers, especially because of its strong empirical approach, represented by the practical insights obtained through the different case studies.’ Patrizia Anesa, University of Bergamo, RESLA Volume 35:1