Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare th...
With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions such as lockdowns, mask mandates and the approval and in some cases mandate of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, lively discourses have developed around political, social and medical measures. These discourses, which take place both online and offline, are initiated not only by experts b...
This dataset includes annotated corpus data from live lyrical performances of 16 blues artists from 2 periods (1960s and 2010s) and from 2 social groups (African American and non-African American). Both native and non-native blues singers are included. Five phonological forms of African American English [AAE] were selected as variables using the re...
This thesis explores the use of emotes in a synchronous environment where hundreds to thousands of people communicate with each other in different discourse communities. The thesis performs a study on emote use based on the frequencies they are used and their different CMC features in these communities to acquire knowledge on the contextual basis o...
The national day of Australia, officially referred to as Australia Day, can be seen as a celebration of Australian culture or as a symbol of colonialism. Previous research shows that how newspapers frame events can impact the readers’ understanding of how reality is represented (Baker et al., 2013). Therefore, this thesis investigates how Australia...
This note critically reviews a recently published volume, Sistemas fraseológicos en contraste. Enfoques computacionales y de corpus (2021) by Gloria Corpas Pastor, María Rosario Bautista Zambrana and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero from the University of Malaga. It is a collection of essays written by specialists in the above-mentioned field, which h...
Published in Text & Talk
The phenomenon of intensification is pervasive in natural language use. Previous research has extensively discussed what intensifiers are and how they are associated with semantic developments. Corpora prove to be a useful tool to examine the semantic dimension of intensifiers. What has been overlooked, however, is the internal structure(s) of mean...
Published in Violence against women
This article seeks to establish the connection-via shared discourse-between Incels and mainstream pornography. With an interdisciplinary approach which involves a Corpus Linguistics analysis of Reddit forum data, research into digital behaviors, and a feminist critique, this article focuses on the commonalities between the language of pornography a...
