Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013

From the book reviews: "The Volume offers a wide variety of perspectives on the corpus-based study of ... pragmatics and thus illustrates the benefits of this approach. ... Most of the chapters start with a review of the literature and definitions of some basic concepts relevant to the theme under study, which makes the book accessible to novice scholars ... . SLA specialists should also find it a good read, as it includes many references to acquisitional pragmatics ... ." (Gaetanelle Gilquin, Discourses Studies, Vol. 17 (1), 2015) "The first volume of the series Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics will definitely appeal to newcomers in either field, considering the book's emphasis on current issues and gaps in both CL and Pragmatics. Furthermore, experienced researchers will benefit from the wide range of topics and domains covered that challenge the current approaches to the study of language and communication." (Elena del Olmo Banuelos, Atlantis - Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, Vol. 36 (2), December, 2014)

• 1. New domains and methodologies in Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics research, an Introduction.- Current theoretical issues in pragmatics and corpus linguistics research. 2. Advancing the research agenda of Interlanguage Pragmatics: The role of learner corpora.- 3. Corpus Linguistics and Conversation Analysis at the interface: theoretical perspectives, practical outcomes.- 4. Small corpora and pragmatics.- New domains for corpus linguistics and pragmatics. 5. Multiword structures in different materials, and with different goals and methodologies.- 6. Discourse Functions of recurrent multi-word sequences in online and spoken intercultural communication.- 7. Formality in digital discourse – a study of hedging in CANELC.- 8. A corpus-based classification of commitments in Business English.- New methodologies for the pragmatic analysis of speech through corpora. 9. Can English provide a framework for Spanish response tokens?.- 10. The Corpus of Language and Nature (CLAN Project)®: a tool for the study of the relationship between cognition and emotions in language.- 11. System networks as a tool for the pragmatic analysis in an EFL spoken corpus.- 12. A cultural semantic and ethnopragmatic analysis of the Russian praise words molodec and umnica (with reference to English and Chinese).- Book reviews. 13.  Corpus Linguistics: Methods, Theory and Practice by Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie. Reviewed by Dawn Knight.- 14. Cyberpragmatics. Internet-mediated Communication in Context by Francisco Yus. Reviewed by Francisco Javier Díaz-Pérez.- Index.