In:Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 127] 2026
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 24 March 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.127.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.127.toc
Table of contents
Introduction
1
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Dolores González-Álvarez
Esperanza Rama-Martínez
Chapter 1.A study of the recent evolution of swearing in British teen talk
13
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
Chapter 2.Investigating the role of no(t)-fragments in colloquialization
43
Laura Abalo-Dieste
Chapter 3.A diachronic register approach to complex
prenominal modifiers 71
prenominal modifiers 71
Marcus Callies
Turo Vartiainen
Aatu Liimatta
Chapter 4.Studying the historical enregisterment of ain’t
in nineteenth-century American newspapers 91
in nineteenth-century American newspapers 91
Lieselotte Anderwald
Chapter 5.The function of “normal” in the U.S. COVID-19 news discourse: An interplay between phraseology and quotation marks
123
Zuzana Nádraská
Chapter 6.A corpus-based investigation of interruptions and humour
in FOMC deliberations 158
in FOMC deliberations 158
Gisle Andersen
Christian Langerfeld
Chapter 7.Beyond the transactional: Identifying and analysing expressive speech acts in workplace emails
182
Rachele De Felice
Chapter 8.Concealed responsibility and implicit meaning: Nonpersonal epistemic stance presupposition triggers in UK Conservative parliamentary and newspaper opinion migration
discourse
209
Elena Domínguez Romero
Marta Carretero
Mercedes González-Vázquez
Chapter 9.“I’m not a scientist but I did study physics”: Exploring grammatical patterns of expertise on Reddit
241
Turo Hiltunen
Chapter 10.Deconstructing economists’ arguments in the twentieth century: A diachronic cross-linguistic study of economic claims through epistemic and attitudinal stance devices in the LexEcon
corpus
266
Maria Teresa Musacchio
Dario Del Fante
Chapter 11.The verbal expression of prediction in economics: A diachronic corpus analysis of English and Italian across the twentieth century
295
Carla Quinci
Index
323
