Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse - Fitzgerald, Christopher

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Dawn Knight is Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at Cardiff University, Wales. Her research interests lie in the areas of corpus linguistics, multimodality and discourse analysis. Dawn has expertise in conceptualising, theorising and applying innovative interdisciplinary approaches/methodologies for extracting and predicting language patterns within/across social and linguistic contexts. Her pioneering work on Welsh language resource development (including CorCenCC and FreeTxt), supported by major AHRC, ESRC and Welsh Government grants, is helping to change the landscape of minoritised language research and the potential real-world applications of corpora/corpus-based enquiry.

Anne O'Keeffe is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her publications include From Corpus to Classroom, and Investigating Media Discourse, Introducing Pragmatics in Use 1st. She co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. With Geraldine Mark, she developed the Cambridge University Press English Grammar Profile open database. She is co-editor of Routledge book series: The Routledge Corpus Linguistics Guides and The Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics. She is also founder and Director of the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Research Centre and Network.

Christopher Fitzgerald is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Interactional Variation Online project at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include, the language of memory and oral history, second language acquisition and corpus linguistics. His publications in these areas include Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies: The Linguistic Construction of Certainty, Cohesion and Solidarity in COVID-related Addresses to the Nation and Penetrating Historical Discourse's Truth Matrix: A Corpus Analysis of Oral History Testimonies.

Justin McNamara works as a Postdoctoral Researcher and lectures in English as a Foreign Language, Applied Linguistics and Research Methodologies at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland. His research interests are in the areas of corpus linguistics, formulaic language, Teacher training, Teaching modern languages, Irish English and pragmatics. His publications include: When a Frog Grows Hair: ESOL Learner's use of Figurative Language in ELT 10th Anniversary Bulletin, 'Interactional Variation Online (IVO): Corpus Approaches to Analysing Multi-modality in Virtual Meetings' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Special Issue on Virtual Workplace Communication (IJCL).

Geraldine Mark is an applied corpus linguist with interests in discourse analysis, register, multi-modal interaction, L1 and L2 development and materials design. Publications include 'Teachers' engagement with corpora for language teaching materials development', Second language teacher education...

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Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal corpus of virtual meetings. It draws from original data from video recordings of virtual meetings with a variety of participant profiles from various industries....