Abstract This paper examines how translation trainees deal with verb-noun terminological collocations when translating a legal text into their L2. The learner data is juxtaposed professional translations of the same and comparable non-translated documents. results indicate that large proportion renditions attested in reference corpora. There also relatively high convergence between learners’ ex...

In Anglophone public discourse, the word crisis plays a significant role in discussion of critical events and situations across wide range domains. This paper discusses word’s status as keyword mainstream unpacks its semantic contents through natural semantics metalanguage corpus-assisted collocational analysis, explores ideological cultural assumptions underpinning usage. It finds that idea “g...

This article reports on a longitudinal study the impact of reading mode incidental collocation learning and predictors gains. The experiment lasted 11 weeks involved 118 Vietnamese EFL learners who were assigned to an experimental group no-treatment control group. encountered 32 target collocations in three graded readers modes: reading-while-listening, with textual input enhancement (i.e., und...

The current paper is aimed at corpus-based differentiation of near-synonymous lexemes with the meaning ‘to destroy’. research implies a series consecutive steps: to discuss synonymy-related problems in modern linguistics; compile list destroy’ by means Corpus Contemporary American English (COCA); analyze and compare definitions chosen verbs Merriam-Webster Dictionary (MWD); generate lists right...

Of all the major world languages, Japanese is lagging behind in terms of publicly accessible and searchable corpora. In this paper we describe the development of JpWaC (Japanese Web as Corpus), a large corpus of 400 million words of Japanese web text, and its encoding for the Sketch Engine. The Sketch Engine is a web-based corpus query tool that supports fast concordancing, grammatical processi...