Dear all,

We are very pleased to announce that the first issue of volume 12 (2024) of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL) has just come out.

The issue can be found at: https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/issue/view/25

Please find below the table of contents.

With best wishes,

Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Carlos Prado-Alonso Editors of RiCL

ARTICLES:

•A corpus-assisted approach to discursive news values analysis. Arash Javadinejad 1–29

•The contribution of aspectual auxiliary verbs to the factual value of verb periphrases in Spanish: An empirical study. Ana Fernández-Montraveta, Glòria Vázquez, Hortènsia Curell 30–58

•Recent trends in corpus design and reporting: A methodological synthesis. Brett Hashimoto, Kyra Nelson 59–88

•Adjective comparison in African varieties of English. Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Cristhian Tomàs-Vidal 89–113

•Constructions and representations of Chinese identity through England’s curatorial imagination: A corpus-assisted analysis. JJ Chan, Mathew Gillings 114–139

•A semantic analysis of bilingual compound verbs in two contact Spanish communities. Osmer Balam, Lidia Pérez Leutza, Ian Michalski, María del Carmen Parafita Couto 140–170

BOOK REVIEWS:

•Review of Peters, Pam and Kate Burridge eds. 2023. Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 978-1-474-46286-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474462853.001.0001. Philip Shaw 171–179

•Review of Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka and Sandra Götz eds. 2022. Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-21258-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.104. Paweł Szudarski 180–188

•Review of Mattiello, Elisa. 2022. Transitional Morphology: Combining Forms in Modern English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-16828-1. DOI: https://doi. org/10.1017/9781009168274. Cristina Lara-Clares, Salvador Valera 189–195

•Review of Taavitsainen, Irma, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith and Carla Suhr eds. 2022. Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-10534-7. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.1017/9781009105347. Irene Diego Rodríguez 196–204

•Review of Sánchez Fajardo, José A. 2022. Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-25822-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.222. Anke Lensch 205–211

•Review of Zihan Yin and Elaine Vine eds. 2022. Multifunctionality in English: Corpora, Language and Academic Literacy Pedagogy. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-72509-9. DOI: https://doi. org/10.4324/9781003155072. Pascual Pérez-Paredes 212–219