" This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the
methodological techniques used to analyze them. Three analytical approaches are …

A key insight of a transdisciplinary perspective on second language acquisition (SLA) as
articulated by the Douglas Fir Group (2016) is its usage‐based understanding of language …

This study contributes to the emerging line of research on the linguistic realizations of
rhetorical functions in disciplinary writing by presenting a list of phrase-frames identified from …

Lexical bundles perform discourse functions and present differing levels of variability, with
some slots replaceable by optional words. Incorporating both function and formulaicity …

Little attention has been paid so far to keywords and lexical bundles used in the English
language typical of the pharmaceutical field. Conducted from a register-perspective (Biber & …

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 …

This paper analyzes formulaic language in conference abstracts in Applied Linguistics and
tracks an application of the findings to a second language English academic writing context …

This study aimed to contribute to recent corpus-based efforts in compiling lists of academic
expressions by deriving a pedagogically useful list of phrase-frames for a specific part …

A recent trend in corpus-based text analysis emphasizes the recurring linguistic features
which writers use in the construction of disciplinary genres in terms of the rhetorical aims …

Figure legends, descriptive statements accompanying a figure, are short yet important
aspects of research articles, but they have almost escaped scrutiny in the literature. Drawing …