This paper assesses the impact of publishing abstracts in English in the Portuguese Linguistics Association (APL) Proceedings from 2001 to 2010. The study was carried out with a corpus of 137 abstracts, follows a Text Linguistics model inspired by the Interactionnisme Sociodiscoursif and links text features to the social practices and genre repertoires of this community. Quantitative data show ...

The aim of the current study was to investigate frequencies of interactional metadiscourse markers in English academic research and popular science articles in nutrition. A total of 60 English articles published in three popular databases and four academic journals were analyzed for interactional metadiscourse markers, including hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagement markers and self-me...

The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis Sorry for and about in the COCA BNC. When it comes COCA, interesting point out that types show same pattern TV/movie fiction genres academic genre, whereas they different blog, web, magazine, newspaper spoken genre. With respect BNC, significant note genre magazine misc, non-academic genres. It can thus be inferred these two a...

In the last ten years, computer-based systems have been developed to automatically classify music according to a high-level musical concept such as genre or instrumentation. These automatic music annotation systems are useful for the storage and retrieval of music from a large database of musical content. In general, a system begins by extracting features for each song. The labels and features ...

To better understand the promising effects of data-driven learning (DDL) on language learning processes and outcomes, this study explored DDL learning events enabled by the Research Writing Tutor (RWT), a webbased platform that contains: an English language corpus annotated to enhance rhetorical input; a concordancer searchable for rhetorical functions; and an automated writing evaluation engin...

Inspired by Fairclough's suggestion of the idea of commodification in higher education, particularly in terms of "the marketization of the discursive practices of universities" (1993, p. 143), the author of the present paper proposes a theoretical basis within which the constitutive functioning of academic discourse in the mentioned process can be understood.  In this attempt, Althusser's chain...