Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016: Global Implications for Society and Education in the Networked Age

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by  Jesús Romero-Trillo (eds.)

Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
Jesús Romero-Trillo E ditor
Yearbook
of Corpus
Linguistics and
Pragmatics 2016
Global Implications for Society and
Education in the Networked Age
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics
and Pragmatics
2016
Editor-in-Chief
Jesüs Romero-Trillo , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Spain
Reviews Editor
Dawn Knight, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
Advisory Editorial Board
Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Belén Díez-Bedmar, Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Ronald Geluykens, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Anna Gladkova, University of Sussex and University of Brighton, UK
Stefan Gries: University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Leo Francis Hoye, University of Hong Kong, China
Jingyang Jiang, Zhejiang University, China
Anne O’Keeffe, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Silvia Riesco-Bernier, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, University of Ghent, Belgium
Esther Vázquez y del Árbol, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Anne Wichmann, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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Jesús Romero-Trillo
Editor
Yearbook of Corpus
Linguistics and Pragmatics
2016
Global Implications for Society
and Education in the Networked Age
Editor
Jesús Romero-Trillo
Departamento de Filología Inglesa/
Facultad de Filosofía
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid , Spain
ISSN 2213-6819 ISSN 2213-6827 (electronic)
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
ISBN 978-3-319-41732-5 ISBN 978-3-319-41733-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41733-2
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Contents
Introduction: Global Implications for Society and Education
in the Networked Age ...................................................................................... 1
Jesús Romero-Trillo
Part I Society, Social Networks and Corpus Pragmatics
Towards a Cyberpragmatics of Mobile Instant Messaging ......................... 7
Francisco Yus
Connected Parents: Combining Online and Off-Line
Parenthood in Vlogs and Blogs ...................................................................... 27
Carmen Santamaría-García
Healing and Comfort on the Net: Gender and Emotions
in Violent Domestic Environments ................................................................ 51
Eva M. Mestre-Mestre
“The More Please [Places] I See the More I Think of Home”:
On Gendered Discourse of Irishness and Migration Experiences .............. 85
Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma and Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
A Cross-Linguistic Study of Conceptual Metaphors
in Financial Discourse..................................................................................... 107
María Muelas Gil
Part II Linguistic and Educational Implications
of Corpus Pragmatics
Teaching Pragmatics with Corpus Data: The Development
of a Corpus-Referred Website for the Instruction of Routine
Formulas in Russian ....................................................................................... 129
Edie Furniss
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vi Contents
Beyond Engaged Listenership: Assessing Spanish
Undergraduates’ Active Participation in Academic Mentoring
Sessions in English as Academic Lingua Franca .......................................... 153
Fiona MacArthur
Focusing on Content or Language?: Comparing Paired
Conversations in CLIL and EFL Classrooms, Using a Corpus .................. 179
Keiko Tsuchiya
Writers’ Uncertainty in a Corpus of Scientific Biomedical
Articles with a Diachronic Perspective ......................................................... 203
Andrzej Zuczkowski , Ramona Bongelli , Ilaria Riccioni ,
Massimiliano Valotto , and Roberto Burro
Chinese University Students’ Development of Pragmatic
Skills in L2 Italian: A Corpus- Based Study .................................................. 243
Andrea Scibetta
Part III Book Reviews
Review of Bamford, J., Cavalieri, S. and Diani, G. (Eds).
(2013) V ariation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse:
Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics . Amsterdam:
John Benjamins ............................................................................................... 275
Claire Childs
Review of Kruger, A., Wallmach, K. and Munday J. (2011)
Corpus-Based Translation Studies: Research and Applications .
London and New York: Bloomsbury ............................................................. 281
Sofi a Malamatidou
Review of Hyland, K., Huat, C. M. and Handford, M. (2012).
Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics . London: Bloomsbury ............. 287
Karen Kinloch
Author Index.................................................................................................... 293
Subject Index ................................................................................................... 301
Contributors
Carolina P. Amador-Moreno Filología Inglesa/Facultad de Filosofía , Universidad
de Extremadura , Cáceres , Spain
Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma Filología Inglesa/Facultad de Filosofía , Universidad
Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid , Spain
Ramona Bongelli D epartment of Political Sciences, Communication and
International Relations , University of Macerata , Macerata , Italy
Roberto Burro D epartment of Philosophy, Education, Psychology, U niversity of
Verona , Verona , Italy
Claire Childs School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics , Newcastle
University , Newcastle Upon Tyne , UK
Edie Furniss D epartment of Hispanic Studies and Modern and Classical
Languages , University of Houston , Houston , TX, Texas , USA
Karen Kinloch L inguistics and English Language Department, L ancaster
University , Lancaster , UK
Fiona MacArthur F ilología Inglesa/Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras, U niversidad
de Extremadura , Cáceres , Spain
Sofi a Malamatidou Department of Modern Languages , University of Birmingham ,
Birmingham , UK
Eva M. Mestre-Mestre Lingüística Aplicada/Escola Politècnica Superior de
Gandia , Universitat Politècnica de València , Camí Vera s/n, València , Spain
María Muelas Gil Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid , Spain
Departamento de Filología Moderna/Facultad de Educación , Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha , Cuenca , Spain
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viii Contributors
Ilaria Riccioni Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism ,
University of Macerata , Macerata , Italy
Jesús Romero-Trillo Departamento de Filología Inglesa/Facultad de Filosofía ,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Madrid , Spain
Carmen Santamaría-García F ilología Moderna/Facultad de Filosofía Y Letras,
Universidad de Alcalá , Alcalá de Henares , Madrid , Spain
Andrea Scibetta L inguistica e Didattica Della Lingua Italiana a Stranieri,
Università per Stranieri di Siena (University for Foreigners of Siena) , Siena , Italy
Keiko Tsuchiya International Education Centre , Tokai University , Hiratsuka,
Kanagawa , Japan
Massimiliano Valotto D epartment of Mathematics, Computer Science and
Physics , University of Udine , Udine , Italy
Francisco Yus Departamento de Filología Inglesa , Universidad de Alicante ,
Alicante , Spain
Andrzej Zuczkowski Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism ,
University of Macerata , Macerata , Italy
Introduction: Global Implications for Society
and Education in the Networked Age
Jesús Romero-Trillo
I t cannot be denied that we live in the age of information access and that informa-
tion processing defi nes the way we live and think and, also, the way we consume
goods and services (Rifkin 2 001) . In this sense, the enormous surge in the amount
of information that we receive every day has coincided with the fi nancial crisis
that has affected the so-called developed world since 2008, with its subsequent
domino- effect on the political and economic situation in less developed countries
(Caparrós 2 015 ). The fact that social media is increasingly reliant on language has
made politicians and journalists become aware of the role of language in the
explanation of the dramatic changes that are shaping a new horizon in geopolitical
and human relations. Some authors, like Bauman and Bordoni ( 2014 ), believe that
globalisation has grown parallel to the emptying of the power of states and institu-
tions, which cannot longer manage (and control) social and economic processes.
The result is that citizens have begun to mistrust institutions and that social net-
works have become the new agora where individuals can vent their anger or
express their hopes.
For this reason, the fourth volume of the series Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics
and Pragmatics 2016 is published at an opportune moment as it offers an accurate
and theory-principled view on reality based on the linguistic investigation of
J. Romero-Trillo (*)
Departamento de Filología Inglesa/Facultad de Filosofía , Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ,
Madrid , Spain
e-mail: [email protected]
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