Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics

1. List of Contributors; 2. Foreword (by McCarthy, Michael); 3. Introduction; 4. Douglas Biber and the Flagstaff School of corpus-based research: An introduction (by Cortes, Viviana); 5. A corpus-based analysis of linguistic variation in teacher and student presentations in university settings (by Csomay, Eniko); 6. Telephone interactions: A multidimensional comparison (by Friginal, Eric); 7. On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity (by Gray, Bethany); 8. Telling by omission: Hedging and negative evaluation in academic recommendation letters (by Albakry, Mohammed); 9. Corpora, context, and language teachers: Teacher involvement in a local learner corpus project (by Urzua, Alfredo); 10. The challenge of constructing a reliable word list: An exploratory corpus-based analysis of lexical variability in introductory Psychology textbooks (by Miller, Don); 11. Corpus linguistics and New Englishes (by Balasubramanian, Chandrika); 12. Investigating textual borrowing in academic discourse: The need for a corpus-based approach (by Keck, Casey); 13. Situating lexical bundles in the formulaic language spectrum: Origins and functional analysis developments (by Cortes, Viviana); 14. Index