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International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

27 February 2026

Continuum of stance in law: A corpus-based study across written legal genres

Le Cheng, Xiuli Liu and Jian Li | 28 pp.

A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of (Dis)Interest and (Un)Importance frames in leave to appeal decisions of the HKSAR appellate courts

Jamie McKeown and Haojie Deng | 24 pp.

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 | 21 pp.

9 February 2026

Measuring divergence in migration-related terminology between EU legal discourse and press articles in English and French

Edward Clay | 23 pp.

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 Wasilewska and Dariusz Koźbiał | 30 pp.

14 November 2025

Is human translation more conservative than machine translation? A corpus-based study measuring formality across translation varieties and registers

Jia Li and Xianyao Hu | 35 pp.

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 Boulton and Roshidah Hassan | 39 pp.