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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...

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

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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

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📣 We've got some news! 🥁

We are delighted to welcome @lukeccollins.bsky.social‬ 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

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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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 methods—and how reproducible are the results?

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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

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#corpuslinguistics #filmstudies #SLA

How stable are word type lists?

In "Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types", ‪@jesse-egbert.bsky.social‬, Doug Biber, Bethany Gray & ‪@tovelarsson.bsky.social‬ review empirical case studies that challenge assumptions

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#corpuslinguistics #wordlists

How is the phrase “I'm so OCD” used—and challenged—on 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

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

In our first #onlinefirst paper of 2025, the authors show how positions of contrastive adverbs, emphatic pronouns and "quant à" constructions vary in writing vs. speech and formal vs. informal contexts

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@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics #French #syntax

Our IJCL special issue on ‘Corpus Approaches to Business Communication’ is now out! With thanks to my co-editor @susannekopf.bsky.social and the wonderful authors who produced 5 great papers. Take a look, there’s some truly rich findings and innovative methods in there! benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl...

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