Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Contrastive Usage Profiling: A Word Vector Perspective on World Englishes 11
5. A Large-scale Diachronic Analysis of the English Passive Alternation 31
6. ‘The Fat Gap’: Discourses around Social Class in UK Press Coverage of Obesity 57
7. Dialect Corpora from YouTube 79
8. A Pragmatic Approach to a Corpus of Anglicisms Used in Canarian-Spanish Digital Headlines 103
9. A Corpus-based Analysis of Negation in Selected 19^th-century American Missionary Documents in Honolulu 133
10. Do Non-native Speakers Read Differently? Predicting Reading Times with Surprisal and Language Models of Native and Non-native Eye Tracking Data 153
11. Index 189