International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Editor
ORCiD logo with linkMichaela Mahlberg | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Associate Editor
ORCiD logo with linkGavin Brookes | Lancaster University, UK
Consulting Editor
ORCiD logo with linkWolfgang Teubert | University of Birmingham, UK
Reviews Editor
ORCiD logo with linkBeatrix Busse | University of Cologne, Germany

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Impact Factor: 1.4 (5-year: 1.8)
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.54
CiteScore: 3.9
SNIP: 1.491 SJR: 0.623

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The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics. The journal has a major reviews section publishing book reviews as well as corpus and software reviews. The language of the journal is English, but contributions are also invited on studies of languages other than English. IJCL occasionally publishes special issues (for details please contact the editor). All contributions are peer-reviewed.

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ISSN: 1384-6655 | E-ISSN: 1569‑9811
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl
Latest articles

27 February 2026

  • Continuum of stance in law: A corpus-based study across written legal genres
    Le Cheng, Xiuli LiuJian Li
  • A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of (Dis)Interest and (Un)Importance frames in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts
    Jamie McKeownHaojie Deng
  • 12 February 2026

  • “…animated by a number of fundamental principles”: An analysis of pragmatic argumentation in a corpus of Supreme Court of Ireland’s judgments on human rights
    Davide Mazzi
  • 9 February 2026

  • Measuring divergence in migration-related terminology between EU legal discourse and press articles in English and French
    Edward Clay
  • 19 December 2025

  • Dimensions of variation across institutional legal and administrative registers: An MDA analysis of the Polish Eurolect and the national variety
    Łucja Biel, Katarzyna WasilewskaDariusz Koźbiał
  • 4 December 2025

  • N. Vyatkina. 2024. Corpus applications in language teaching and research: The case of data-driven learning of German
    Reviewed by Philine Metzger | IJCL 30:4 (2025) pp. 578–582
  • 21 November 2025

  • C. Fitzgerald. 2023. Investigating a corpus of historical oral testimonies: The linguistic construction of certainty
    Reviewed by Gili Diamant | IJCL 30:4 (2025) pp. 572–577
  • 14 November 2025

  • Is human translation more conservative than machine translation? A corpus-based study measuring formality across translation varieties and registers
    Jia LiXianyao Hu
  • 6 November 2025

  • Sign language corpora designed for sociolinguistic research: A critical review
    Rose Stamp | IJCL 30:4 (2025) pp. 530–571
  • 31 October 2025

  • From theory to data: Testing introspective claims on synonymous French adjectives ‘prochain’ and ‘suivant’ using corpus-based methods
    Jarvis Looi, Patricia Nora Riget, Alex BoultonRoshidah Hassan
  • 28 October 2025

  • Plunged into fuel poverty: Fuel poverty and the (new) fuel poor in UK newspapers in the winters of 2019–20 and 2020–21
    Leigh Harrington, Maria Fano GonzalezKevin Frank Gerigk | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 376–416
  • 17 October 2025

  • Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven approach
    Iva Novakova, Olivier KraifMarion Gymnich | IJCL 30:4 (2025) pp. 499–529
  • 9 October 2025

  • A corpus-based study into new combining forms in American English
    Jinhong HuangYongwei Gao | IJCL 30:4 (2025) pp. 456–498
  • 19 September 2025

  • Using machine learning to automate data annotation in corpus linguistics: A case study with MacBERTh
    Lauren Fonteyn, Enrique ManjavacasJaleesa De Regt | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 296–315
  • 12 September 2025

  • Evaluating a transparent and interpretable approach to stance detection using linguistic markers in social media data
    Maud ReveilhacGerold Schneider | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 195–233
  • 9 September 2025

  • Hypothesis-testing in corpus-assisted discourse studies: A methodological exploration
    Anna Marchi | IJCL 30:4 (2025) pp. 433–455
  • 1 September 2025

  • Lexical Priming theory: Evolution, evaluation, extension
    Alan PartingtonEugenia Diegoli | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 352–375
  • 19 August 2025

  • Examining contextual constraints on the English dative alternation in L2 written production: A contrastive multifactorial analysis
    Qiao GanMin Wang | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 265–295
  • 18 August 2025

  • Interactive metadiscourse across languages and writer groups: A comparison among L1 Chinese, L2 English and L1 English research articles
    Heng Gong, Feng CaoLingling Liu | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 316–351
  • 14 July 2025

  • D. Landert. 2024. Methods in Historical Corpus Pragmatics: Epistemic Stance in Early Modern English
    Reviewed by Lieselotte Brems | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 425–432
  • 27 June 2025

  • Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors
    Tove Larsson, Marcus Callies, Tülay Dixon, Hilde Hasselgård, Nicole Hober, Natalia Judith Laso, Sanne van Vuuren, Isabel VerdaguerMagali Paquot | IJCL 30:1 (2025) p. 79
  • 24 June 2025

  • S. T. Gries. 2024. Frequency, Dispersion, Association, and Keyness: Revising and tupleizing corpus-linguistic measures
    Reviewed by William C. X. Platt | IJCL 30:3 (2025) pp. 417–424
  • 19 June 2025

  • D. S. StoltzM. A. Taylor. 2024. Mapping texts: Computational text analysis for the social sciences
    Reviewed by Wenwen Guan | IJCL 30:1 (2025) pp. 112–118
  • 12 June 2025

  • Reuse of social media data in corpus linguistics
    Mikko LaitinenPaula Rautionaho | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 171–194
  • Reproducibility and transparency in interpretive corpus pragmatics
    Martin SchweinbergerMichael Haugh | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 234–260
  • Reproducibility, replicability, and robustness in corpus linguistics
    Martin SchweinbergerMichael Haugh | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 119–129
  • 10 June 2025

  • Closing remarks and outlook
    Stefan Th. Gries | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 261–263
  • C. F. Meyer. 2023. English corpus linguistics: An introduction
    Reviewed by Ding Huang | IJCL 30:1 (2025) pp. 106–111
  • 23 May 2025

  • Grammatical complexity in film dialogue: A corpus-based study from a register-functional perspective
    Maicol Formentelli, Liviana GalianoMaria Pavesi | IJCL 30:1 (2025) pp. 51–78
  • 20 May 2025

  • Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types
    Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber, Bethany GrayTove Larsson | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 150–170
  • 15 April 2025

  • I’m so OCD lol: A corpus-based study of obsessive-compulsive disorder used as an adjective
    Jordan BatchelorHeewon Lee-Laminack | IJCL 30:1 (2025) pp. 24–50
  • 14 February 2025

  • Reproducibility, replicability, robustness, and generalizability in corpus linguistics
    Joseph Flanagan | IJCL 30:2 (2025) pp. 130–149
  • 16 January 2025

  • Syntactic position of contrast markers in different registers of French
    Jorina BrysbaertKaren Lahousse | IJCL 30:1 (2025) pp. 1–23
  • 13 December 2024

  • H. Price. 2022. The language of mental illness: Corpus linguistics and the construction of mental illness in the press
    Reviewed by Katherine Ann Ireland | IJCL 29:4 (2024) pp. 617–621
  • 9 December 2024

  • A corpus-based analysis of ‘vernacular synonyms’: Citizens, burgesses, and freemen in Early Modern English (1550–1700)
    Caterina Guardamagna | IJCL 29:4 (2024) pp. 562–594
  • 19 November 2024

  • M. Di Cristofaro. 2023. Corpus approaches to language in social media
    Reviewed by Aleksandra Sevastianova | IJCL 29:4 (2024) pp. 611–616
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    Editorial info
    Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkMichaela Mahlberg | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    Associate Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkGavin Brookes | Lancaster University, UK
    Consulting Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkWolfgang Teubert | University of Birmingham, UK
    Reviews Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkBeatrix Busse | University of Cologne, Germany
    Editorial Board
    Svenja Adolphs | University of Nottingham, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkPaul Baker | Lancaster University, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkMichael Barlow | University of Auckland, New Zealand
    ORCiD logo with linkTony Berber Sardinha | Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil
    ORCiD logo with linkSilvia Bernardini | University of Bologna, Italy
    ORCiD logo with linkDouglas Biber | Northern Arizona University, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkLynne Bowker | Université Laval, Canada
    Susan Conrad | Portland State University, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkJonathan Culpeper | Lancaster University, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkMin Dong | Beihang University, China
    Tomaž Erjavec | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    ORCiD logo with linkStephanie Evert | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    ORCiD logo with linkRafał Górski | Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
    ORCiD logo with linkSylviane Granger | Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
    ORCiD logo with linkStefan Th. Gries | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    ORCiD logo with linkAnne O'Keeffe | Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
    ORCiD logo with linkMerja Kytö | Uppsala University, Sweden
    Wenzhong Li | Zhejiang Gongshang University, China
    Anna Mauranen | University of Helsinki, Finland
    ORCiD logo with linkTony McEnery | Lancaster University, UK
    Joybrato Mukherjee | University of Cologne, Germany
    ORCiD logo with linkIva Novakova | Université Grenoble Alpes, France
    ORCiD logo with linkRūta Petrauskaitė | Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
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    ORCiD logo with linkNils Reiter | University of Cologne, Germany
    ORCiD logo with linkUte Römer-Barron | Georgia State University, USA
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    Mike Scott | Aston University, UK
    ORCiD logo with linkMaite Taboada | Simon Fraser University, Canada
    Elena Tognini-Bonelli | University of Siena, Italy
    ORCiD logo with linkFengchao Zhen | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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    Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln, Germany

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