This article presents the results of a pilot study examining the use of first-person pronouns, certain adjectives and grading adverbs in a corpus of 51 French psychology student papers written in English as a second language. These results were compared to a corpus of published psychology articles and to a sub-corpus of psychology student texts from the British Academic Written English corpus (...

This paper investigates stylistic changes in a set of Portuguese historical texts ranging from the 17 to the early 20 century and presents a supervised method to classify them per century. Four stylistic features – average sentence length (ASL), average word length (AWL), lexical density (LD), and lexical richness (LR) – were automatically extracted for each sub-corpus. The initial analysis of ...

metadiscourse is a widely used term in current discourse analysis and language education, referring to an interesting, and relatively new approach to conceptualizing interaction between text producers and their texts and between text producers and users. despite the growing importance of the term, however, it is often understood in different ways and used to refer to different aspects of langua...

khānsār was one of the principal cities of isfahan district in qajar era. the city is mentioned repeatedly in historical texts and visited frequently by european travelers khānsār was celebrated in qajar era for presence of significant cultural and artistic figures in the city as well as production of various commercial products. the remnants of commercial monuments such as qajar bazar or kārva...

1 Introduction As commonly recognized, the era of modern corpus linguistics is approaching the half-century mark. During the past 50 years, we have witnessed a series of important landmark events in this field, ranging from the early attempts at mechanolinguistics by Juiland and Busa in the 1950s, to the pioneering work on computerized corpora in the 1960s and 1970s, involving first written mat...