Corpora and Discourse

1. 1. The challenges of different settings: An overview (by Adel, Annelie); 2. Section I. Exploring discourse in academic settings; 3. 2. '...post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth': A comparative analysis of vague category markers in academic discourse (by Walsh, Steve); 4. 3. Emphatics in academic discourse: Integrating corpus and discourse tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation (by Bondi, Marina); 5. 4. Interaction, identity and culture in academic writing: The case of German, British and American academics in the humanities (by Sanderson, Tamsin); 6. Section II. Exploring discourse in workplace settings; 7. 5. 'Got a date or something?': A corpus analysis of the role of humour and laughter in the workplace meetings of English language teachers (by Vaughan, Elaine); 8. 6. Determining discourse-based moves in professional reports (by Flowerdew, Lynne); 9. 7. // --> ONE country two SYStems //: The discourse intonation patterns of word associations (by Cheng, Winnie); 10. Section III. Exploring discourse in news and entertainment; 11. 8. Who's speaking?: Evidentiality in US newspapers during the 2004 presidential campaign (by Garretson, Gregory); 12. 9. Television dialogue and natural conversation: Linguistic similarities and functional differences (by Quaglio, Paulo); 13. 10. A corpus approach to discursive construction of hip-hop identity (by Beers Fagersten, Kristy); 14. Section IV. Exploring discourse through specific linguistic features; 15. 11. The use of the it-cleft construction in 19th-century English (by Johansson, Christine); 16. 12. Place and time adverbials in native and non-native English student writing (by Crawford, William J.); 17. Author index; 18. Corpus and tools index; 19. Subject index