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The Role of Corpus Linguistics in the Ethnography of a Closed Community analyses the interactions of immigrants within an Irish reception centre for asylum seekers to highlight the instinctive resourcefulness of people who are faced with the challenge of communicating when there is no common language or culture.  Based on three years of ethnographical observation and using an illuminating and innovative blending of applied methodologies, chiefly corpus linguistics, ethnography and conversation analysis, this book: Draws upon a corpus of 98,000 words; Examines the use of English in the interactions of residents with one another and those with English speaking staff of the centre; Challenges constructs such as speech community, communicative competence and interlanguage. This book is essential reading for academics and upper-level undergraduates or graduates working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and those interested in research methodologies. It will also prove to be of significant interest to people interested in migration studies and to providers of English language education to immigrants.

This book provides a unique analysis and description of the linguistic challenges faced by school students as they move from primary to secondary school, a major transition, which some students struggle with emotionally and academically.

Examining a 15 million-word corpus of articles by nine UK national newspapers over 15 years, Balfour draws on techniques from corpus linguistics & critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent & salient linguistic features used to influence & reflect attitudes towards schizophrenia.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of corpus use in Italian L2 Pedagogy and shows how corpora can be used for language learning and teaching. The author addresses Italian language corpus resources, their potential uses in pedagogical settings, and the range of research methods available to evaluate their effectiveness.

This book provides a historical overview of corpus applications in language teaching with a focus on German. The book identifies challenges in using corpus applications and Data-Driven Learning (DDL) research for Languages Other Than English (LOTEs) and addresses these challenges through various approaches.