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Corpora: Vol 18, No 1

Our free sample issue from 2023 has some great papers in it! www.euppublishing.com/toc/cor/18/1

‘What is this corpus about?’: using topic modelling to explore a specialised corpus | Corpora This paper introduces topic modelling, a machine learning technique that automatically identifies ‘topics’ in a given corpus. The paper illustrates its use in the exploration of a corpus of academic E...

Our top most downloaded article is "‘What is this corpus about?’: using topic modelling to explore a specialised corpus" by Akira Murakami, Paul Thompson, Susan Hunston and
Dominik Vajn. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media | Corpora The sharing of news through social media platforms is now a significant part of mainstream online media use and is an increasingly important consideration in journalism practice and production. This p...

Our 2nd most downloaded article is Investigating evaluation and news values in news items that are shared through social media by Monika Bednarek @corpusling.bsky.social www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Sketching women: a corpus-based approach to representations of women's agency in political Internet corpora in Arabic and English | Corpora In this paper, I use methods from corpus linguistics to examine patterns pertaining to the representation of women in online Arabic- and English-language political corpora. I highlight the discursive ...

Corpora's 3rd most downloaded article is Sketching women: a corpus-based approach to representations of women's agency in political Internet corpora in Arabic and English by Kamran Karimullah. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

CLiC Dickens: novel uses of concordances for the integration of corpus stylistics and cognitive poetics | Corpora This paper introduces the web application CLiC, which we developed as part of a research project bringing together insights from both cognitive poetics and corpus stylistics, with Dickens's novels as ...

Corpora's 4th most downloaded article is CLiC Dickens: novel uses of concordances for the integration of corpus stylistics and cognitive poetics by @michamahlberg.bsky.social (Open Access). www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Inter-religious relations in Yorubaland, Nigeria: corpus methods and anthropological survey data | Corpora This paper uses corpus methods to support the analysis of data collected as part of a large-scale ethnographic project that focusses on inter-religious relations in south-west Nigeria. Our corpus cons...

Our 5th most downloaded article is Inter-religious relations in Yorubaland, Nigeria: corpus methods and anthropological survey data by M. Insa Nolte, Clyde Ancarno and
Rebecca Jones (Open Access). www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

English learner corpora and research in Korea | Corpora The interest in the exploitation of corpora in the study of Korean L2 learners’ use of English has risen dramatically over the past two decades, leading to the compilation of learner corpora and to nu...

Our 6th most downloaded article is English learner corpora and research in Korea by Heokseung Kwon www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing | Corpora This paper introduces the Swedish Learner English Corpus (slec), which consists of argumentative texts in English that are written by Swedish junior and senior high school students. slec includes rich...

Corpora's 7th most downloaded article is "Introducing the Swedish Learner English Corpus: a corpus that enables investigations of the impact of extramural activities on L2 writing" by Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang and @tovelarsson.bsky.social (open access) www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

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Exploring the use of <i>make</i> + noun collocations by Japanese EFL learners through a bilingual essay corpus | Corpora Acquiring English collocations poses a major challenge for second language (L2) learners. It has been well noted that even advanced L2 English learners have difficulty using basic verb + noun collocat...

Corpora's 8th most downloaded article is Exploring the use of make + noun collocations by Japanese EFL learners through a bilingual essay corpus by Atsushi Mizumoto and Ryo Sawaguchi. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

The ordering of relative clauses and determiner phrases in Chinese interlanguage: a multifactorial study | Corpora In English, a relative clause (rc) follows the head noun phrase (np). Conversely, the rc in Chinese precedes the head np directly before it or is separated by a determiner phrase (dp). This is uncommo...

We're posting our 10 most downloaded papers to date. At number 10 is Jiajin Xu and Zhaoxia Liu - The ordering of relative clauses and determiner phrases in Chinese interlanguage: a multifactorial study. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

On the status of statistical reporting <i>versus</i> linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective | Corpora This study investigates (i) whether there has been a shift towards increased statistical focus in corpus linguistic research articles, and, if so, (ii) whether this has had any repercussions for the a...

The 9th most downloaded Corpora article is "On the status of statistical reporting versus linguistic description in corpus linguistics: a ten-year perspective" by @tovelarsson.bsky.social, @jesse-egbert.bsky.social and Doug Biber. www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Hello Bluesky. Corpora journal is about to enter its 20th year of publication. Thanks to our editorial board, our subscribers, authors and reviewers over the last two decades, and to @edinburghup.bsky.social who have supported us throughout. We couldn't have made it this far without you!