The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA)
has increasingly gathered momentum over the last decade. This paper surveys studies …

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-
stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an …

In this study we investigate the generic structure of hotel responses to customer complaints
posted on popular travel website, TripAdvisor. Extending the genre analytic notion of …

How do cultural critics in the digital age convince audiences that their writings are valuable?
What discursive strategies do they employ to construct their authority? And which differences …

In the last decade, the availability of corpora and the technological advancements of corpus
tools have increased dramatically. Applied linguists have greater access to data from around …

We present detailed analyses of the distribution of Appraisal categories (Martin and White,
2005) in a corpus of online news comments. The corpus consists of just over one thousand …

In this article, the authors offer a comparative approach to the analysis of a popular internet
genre–user-generated restaurant reviews–sampled from two different websites (OpenRice …

Mastery of the art of crafting online reviews and responses is essential as a valuable
additional tool for enhancing learners' English proficiency in specialised contexts. This study …

Every spoken utterance, written text, or instance of computer-mediated communication
(CMC) always bears traces of texts that came before it. Intertextuality refers to this historic …

Online reviews enable any consumer with internet connectivity to access dozens, hundreds,
and sometimes even thousands, of first-hand accounts of personal experience with a …