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Language matters: representations of ‘heart failure’ in English discourse—a large-scale linguistic study Open
Aims Heart failure (HF) has a lower public profile compared with other serious health conditions, notably cancer. This discourse analysis study investigates the extent to which HF is discussed in general contemporary English, UK parliament…
Language Matters -Representations of ‘heart failure’ in English discourse: a large-scale linguistic study Open
Aims Heart failure (HF) has a lower public profile compared to other serious health conditions, notably cancer. This discourse analysis study investigates the extent to which HF is discussed in general contemporary English, UK parliamentar…
Supporting the corpus-based study of Shakespeare’s language: Enhancing a corpus of the First Folio Open
This article explores challenges in the corpus linguistic analysis of Shakespeare’s language, and Early Modern English more generally, with particular focus on elaborating possible solutions and the benefits they bring. An account of work …
Issues and challenges in compiling a corpus of Early Modern English plays for comparison with those of William Shakespeare Open
In this article I discuss the issues and challenges of compiling a corpus of historical plays by a range of playwrights that is highly suitable for use in comparative, corpus-based research into language style in Shakespeare’s plays. In di…
View article: A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation
A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation Open
Automatic extraction and analysis of meaning-related information from natural language data has been an important issue in a number of research areas, such as natural language processing (NLP), text mining, corpus linguistics, and data sci…
View article: An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer
An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer Open
In this article, we examine the notion of 'framing' as a function of metaphor from three interrelated perspectives—cognitive, discourse-based, and practice-based—with the aim of providing an adaptable blueprint of good practice in framing …