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Alan Partington
Researcher at University of Bologna
Publications - 61
Citations - 1985
Alan Partington is an academic researcher from University of Bologna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corpus linguistics & Discourse analysis. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 61 publications receiving 1817 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan Partington include University of Siena.
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Patterns and Meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching
TL;DR: Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology and focuses on information that usually cannot be found in dictionaries, grammars, language textbooks or other resources but which the study of corpus data makes available.
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"Utterly content in each other's company": Semantic prosody and semantic preference
TL;DR: This paper examines the two related concepts of semantic prosody and semantic preference with a definition, a review of relevant current positions and a number of corpus-based experiments conducted.
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Patterns and meanings in discourse : theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
TL;DR: This work is designed to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies.
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Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS) on UK newspapers: an overview of the project
TL;DR: Corpora as mentioned in this paper contains one of the first ever collections of papers pertaining to the nascent discipline of Modern Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (MD-CADS), which is characterised by the novelty both of its methodology and the topics it is, consequently, in a position to treat.
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Irony and reversal of evaluation
TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of irony in both spoken interaction and written texts and found that irony is an implied reversal of the evaluative meaning of the utterance (rather than of the propositional/ideational meaning, as argued in many traditional theories of irony).