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CLLT ‘versus’ Corpora and IJCL: a (half serious) keyness analysis

  • Stefanie Wulff ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Stefan Th. Gries
Published/Copyright: May 27, 2024

Abstract

In this introduction to the special issue celebrating CLLT’s 20th anniversary, we look back and forward in time. To look back, we present the results of a (tongue-in-cheek) corpus-linguistic analysis of about 10 years worth of data of research published in CLLT, IJCL, and Corpora in order to distill the “essence” of CLLT for the reader. As an added bonus, we use the opportunity to discuss ways to improve established ways of performing keyness analyses. To look forward, we asked six (teams of) researchers who all have shaped corpus linguistics and thus the journal to give us their take on what the most significant developments in the field have been, and where they see the most impactful opportunities and challenges arise. This introduction briefly summarizes their contributions.


Corresponding author: Stefanie Wulff, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; and UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, E-mail:

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Received: 2024-05-02
Accepted: 2024-05-07
Published Online: 2024-05-27
Published in Print: 2024-10-28

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