Language and Computers

Preface
pp. iii-v(3)

"It's really fascinating work": Differences in Evaluative Adjectives across Academic Registers
pp. 1-18(18)
Authors: John M. Swales; Amy Burke

"But here's a flawed argument": Socialisation into and through Metadiscourse
pp. 19-34(16)
Author: Anna Mauranen

Register-Specificity of Signalling Nouns in Discourse
pp. 35-46(12)
Author: John Flowerdew

Variation among University Spoken and Written Registers: A New Multi-Dimensional Analysis
pp. 47-70(24)
Author: Douglas Biber

Linguistic Dimensions of Direct Mail Letters
pp. 71-86(16)
Authors: Ulla Connor; Thomas Upton

Gender-Based Variation in Nineteenth-Century English Letter Writing
pp. 87-106(20)
Author: Christer Geisler

The Grammar of Stance in Early Eighteenth-Century English Epistolary Language
pp. 107-131(25)
Author: Susan Fitzmaurice

Great Versus Lovely: Stance Differences in American and British English
pp. 133-151(19)
Author: Kristen Precht

"What's in a Name?": Vocatives in Casual Conversations and Radio Phone-in Calls
pp. 153-185(33)
Authors: Michael J. McCarthy; Anne O'Keeffe

Turn Initiators in Spoken English: A Corpus-Based Approach to Interaction and Grammar
pp. 187-207(21)
Author: Hongyin Tao

Situational Variation in Intonational Strategies
pp. 209-224(16)
Authors: Malcah Yaeger-Dror; Lauren Hall-Lew; Sharon Deckert

On the Radical Difference between the Subject Personal Pronouns in Written and Spoken European French
pp. 225-240(16)
Authors: Bonnie Fonseca-Greber; Linda R. Waugh

The World Wide Web as Linguistic Corpus
pp. 241-254(14)
Authors: Charles F. Meyer; Roger Grabowski; Hung-Yul Han; Konstantin Mantzouranis; Stephanie Moses

Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Rules and Frequency in the Acquisition of English Multiple whQuestions
pp. 255-272(18)
Author: Robert Bley-Vroman

Comparing Alternate Complements of Object Control Verbs: Evidence from the Bank of English Corpus
pp. 273-283(11)
Author: Juhani Rudanko

About the Contributors
pp. 285-288(4)