Dear all,
Just published by Routledge: "Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysishttps://www.routledge.com/Bilingual-Writers-and-Corpus-Analysis/Palfreyman-Habash/p/book/9781032025629" (Palfreyman & Habash, 2022) presents issues and specific findings in the recently developing field of bilingual writer corpora. The book discusses in depth one of the first examples of a bilingual writer corpus: the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (http://www.zaebuc.orghttp://www.zaebuc.org/), which includes writing by hundreds of students in both their languages, with additional information about individual writers and texts.
The book takes the reader through the design and use of such a corpus, and illustrates the potential of this type of corpus with detailed studies, showing how assessment, vocabulary, and discourse work across two very different languages. Specific research questions addressed in this book include: 1. How can we compare writers' proficiency between their L1 and L2, especially when the two languages are typologically very different? 2. Does the writing of male and female bilingual writers differ semantically (in each of their languages)? 3. How can a writer's range of vocabulary be measured across her languages, and how are such measurements related to other measures of linguistic proficiency? 4. How does writers' collocational competence differ between their languages? 5. How does writers' educational background (EMI or non-EMI) relate to their use of metadiscursive expressions in their two languages? 6. Do writers deploy similar metaphors when writing about the same topic in their L1 and in their L2? 7. How could bilingual writer corpora be used to further research on second language acquisition?
https://www.routledge.com/Bilingual-Writers-and-Corpus-Analysis/Palfreyman-H...
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