OUT NOW โ 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
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
10.02.2026 11:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Dimensions of variation across institutional legal and administrative registers
Abstract This study applies full Multidimensional Analysis (MDA) to examine linguistic variation in the Polish Eurolect โ a hybrid variety shaped by translation and institutional constraints within th...
OUT NOW: Biel, Wasilewska & Koลบbiaล 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
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
12.01.2026 10:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sign language corpora designed forย sociolinguistic research | John Benjamins
Abstract
Sign language corpora are generally under-represented in the field of corpus linguistics. Fortunately, in the last
twenty years there has been a steady rise in their creation, following techn...
OUT NOW: Rose Stamp provides a comprehensive review of the current state of sign language corpora around the world โ discussing video capture, transcription, and coding and how these relate to corpus compilation in terms of representativeness, searchability and open access
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
10.11.2025 09:17 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
From theory to data | John Benjamins
Abstract
This paper presents a corpus-based study that evaluates variables identified introspectively by Berthonneau (2002) in relation to the alternation between two French synonymous:
prochain (โnex...
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
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
31.10.2025 12:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Plunged into fuel poverty | John Benjamins
Abstract
Fuel poverty, a householdโs inability to achieve thermal comfort in line with a healthy standard of living at a
reasonable cost, became an increasingly prevalent and visible socio-economic is...
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
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
28.10.2025 15:28 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
A corpus-based study into new combining forms in American English | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study examines 10 new combining forms (CFs) in American English from both diachronic and synchronic
perspectives, based on data from the Corpus of Historical American English, the Corpus...
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
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
10.10.2025 09:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins
Abstract
A wealth of linguistic data has been annotated by corpus linguists, and this extant annotated data can be used to
automatically replicate and apply the linguistโs annotation scheme by means o...
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
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
22.09.2025 09:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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:
1. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
2. doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
...
12.09.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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?
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
10.09.2025 09:06 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Lexical Priming theory | John Benjamins
Abstract
This paper is an early step in a wider project which, on the behest of the late Prof Michael Hoey, attempts to
review the evolution of Lexical Priming (LP) theory since its first appearance i...
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 โ in this instance, Japanese.
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
02.09.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups | John Benjamins
Abstract
Although English has become a lingua franca for academic publication, a growing number of multilingual scholars
prefer to publish in both English and their first languages. This corpus-based ...
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?
Find out here: doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
19.08.2025 10:48 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Review of Meyer (2023): English corpus linguistics: An introduction | John Benjamins
Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.
Here is a quick recap of the book reviews we have seen published recently in IJCL, available #onlinefirst.
Starting with:
Ding Huangโs review of Meyer (2023), โEnglish corpus linguistics: An introductionโ (Cambridge University Press) doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
07.07.2025 09:54 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production | John Benjamins
Abstract
Most existing research on adverb placement has focused exclusively on writing. This is unfortunate, given that the
spoken mode offers limited opportunity for pre-planning and post-editing and...
What factors predict adverb placement in learners' spoken English?
Larsson et al. investigate the distribution of adverbs produced by leaners from 7 language backgrounds, considering the role of L1 transfer alongside linguistic context variables.
#L2English #L1English
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
04.07.2025 10:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics | John Benjamins
Abstract
This introduction to the special issue Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus
Linguistics calls for more transparent and robust research practices in the field. It situates ...
Martin Schweinberger and Michael Haugh introduce the IJCL Special Issue on #reproducibility, #replicability and #robustness in corpus linguistics.
Writing in relation to FAIR and CARE principles, the authors provide actionable strategies for enhancing rigor.
#openscience
doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...
04.07.2025 10:02 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐ฃ We've got some news! ๐ฅ
We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.socialโฌ to the #IJCL team!
Luke is joining us as our new assistant editor.
He is taking over from Natalie Finlayson - thank you Natalie for all your work & best of luck with the new projects!
@johnbenjamins.bsky.social
25.06.2025 17:00 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
In the second of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Schweinberger & Haugh explore how to improve transparency and reproducibility in qualitative approaches like #corpuspragmatics
#openscience
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13.06.2025 17:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In the first of two papers from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in CL out today #onlinefirst, Laitinen & Rautionaho review 30 studies with data from Twitter/X asking: how transparent are the methodsโand how reproducible are the results?
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
13.06.2025 17:43 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In "Grammatical complexity in film dialogue", Maicol Formentelli, Liviana Galiano & Maria Pavesi show how film language mirrors the complexity of spontaneous speech while developing register-specific patterns shaped by the medium
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA
23.05.2025 14:33 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How stable are word type lists?
In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", โช@jesse-egbert.bsky.socialโฌ, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & โช@tovelarsson.bsky.socialโฌ review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions
benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #wordlists
23.05.2025 14:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How is the phrase โI'm so OCDโ usedโand challengedโon social media?
Batchelor & Lee-Laminack explore this in 'I'm so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective' benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...
#corpuslinguistics #mentalhealthdiscourse @gsuresearch.bsky.social
17.04.2025 14:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
In the first paper from our upcoming special issue on #reproducibility and #transparency in #corpuslinguistics, Joseph Flanagan clarifies key terms in "Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics"
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@helsinki.fi #onlinefirst
14.02.2025 16:04 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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