Edited by Vijay Bhatia, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes
The present collection of articles represents research efforts in the field of specialised languages, including the analysis of research articles in disciplines as diverse as Biomedicine and Computing, on the one hand, and overlapping disciplines such as in Social Sciences, on the other, all with… read more
This study highlights the different approaches to the construction of immigrants and citizens that United Kingdom and Spain seem to have favoured in the period 2007–2011. A corpus of legislation (EN-1, SP-1) and another of information texts (EN-3, SP-3) produced by the administrations of both… read more
On the basis of previous lexical bundle studies, this paper examines the forms, structures and functions of 4-word bundles in a corpus of textbooks and a corpus of research articles in Biology. The study includes the main biological disciplines and focuses on three major features: the overall… read more
This paper addresses the natural, non-elicited occurrence of adverbial hedges in the production of Spanish learners of EAP and British students of Modern Languages. The two sets of corpus data we discuss in this research are made up of interviews which were conducted following the same methodology… read more
Literature has a long history in the teaching of language: it was essential in the classical paradigm and still plays a fundamental role in the language classroom in many countries. The advantages of using literary texts for teaching language have been widely discussed (Maley and Duff 1989; Carter… read more
