Holy gee: blasphemies and insults against religious figures in italian film dubbing by Patrizia Giampieri

“…Blasphemies and insults against religious figures have entered everyday life, a tendency increasingly mirrored in American-English films. This paper firstly explores whether this statement is true and, in that case, it analyses how religious swearwords are rendered in Italian films. …”
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The degree of grammaticalization of gotta, gonna, wanna and better: A corpus study by Machová Dagmar

“…Using corpora (predominantly the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English) and web forums, the paper studies in detail the level of independence of gotta, gonna, wanna and better from their respective auxiliaries (have and be) and the development of the operator properties of these structures typical for central modals (i.e. inversion in questions, compatibility with clausal negation and occurrence in elliptical contexts). …”
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“Me likey!” A new (old) argument structure or a partially fixed expression with the verb like? by Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras

“…In light of the evidence from the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the TV Corpus, we can conclude that the sequence is used in highly informal registers, and that it tends to appear in rather formulaic expressions, especially in two-word sequences. …”
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Semiotics across Cultures: An Analysis of Shop Signs in American and Iraqi Contexts by نصير عباس غبن الزبيدي, مروة فراس عبدالله

“…This study examines the textual and visual resources of shopfront advertising signs in two different linguistic and cultural contexts, namely, American English and Iraqi Arabic from a semiotics perspective. …”
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Collectivism and individualism in US culture: An analysis of attitudes to group work by Mohammad Tamimy, Leila Setayesh Zarei, Mohammad Saber Khaghaninejad

“…The present corpus-based study utilises the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to determine the current and the longitudinal traits of American cultural attitudes, which could influence the Americans’ disposition towards collective activities including group work. …”
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Variation and change in the use of hesitation markers in Germanic languages by Wieling, M, Grieve, J, Bouma, G, Fruehwald, J, Coleman, J, Liberman, M

“…Based on a quantitative analysis of a range of spoken and written corpora, we identify clear and consistent patterns of change in the use of these forms in various Germanic languages (English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese) and dialects (American English, British English), with the use of UM increasing over time relative to the use of UH. …”

Navigating Social Cognitive Impairments in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Protocol for a Pilot Pre-Post Quasi-Experimental Study for Remote Avatar-Assisted Cognitive Remediation... by Elisabeth Thibaudeau, Elodie Peyroux, Nicolas Franck, Hannah Carling, Martin Lepage

“…First, the translation and cultural adaptation in North American English and French-Canadian of RC2S is presented. …”
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Expression de l’exclamation en anglais au moyen de marqueurs atypiques by Bénédicte Guillaume, Emmanuel Baumer

“…Our study is based on a corpus of attested examples of British or American English sampled from various sources (namely, the British National Corpus as well as novels and TV series), both in their written and in their oral forms. …”
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Adaptation to Social-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech by Molly Babel

“…As a case in point, listeners’ stereotypes of language and ethnicity pairings in varieties of North American English can improve intelligibility and comprehension, or hinder these processes. …”
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“The Biggest Small Town in America”: Cross-generational Patterns of Monophthongization in the Suburban South by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…The phonology of the Southern states of the USA (Southern American English) is a well-documented phenomenon that has witnessed considerable change in the last century. …”
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“I never get a thing that ain’t been used”: A diachronic corpus-based study of second-hand consumption by Gilquin Gaëtanelle

“…In an attempt to find out how the representations of second-hand consumption in discourse have evolved over time, a corpus study of the word second-hand is carried out on the basis of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) (1820–2019). Frequency is considered, as well as collocates, which show the types of second-hand items that are mentioned in different time periods and which indicate how positively or negatively connoted second-hand consumption is. …”
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Lexical Collocation Analysis in Master’s Student Reflective Writings by Mia Dreina Antira Pujiningtyas, Barli Bram

“…As a corpus-based study, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was employed by the researchers. …”
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Predicting Change in Emotion through Ordinal Patterns and Simple Symbolic Expressions by Yair Neuman, Yochai Cohen

“…We tested our approach on textual data from several massive conversations corpora and two different cultures: Chinese (Mandarin) and American (English). The results converge in suggesting that change in emotion may be successfully predicted, even with regard to very short, nonlinear, and noisy interactions.…”
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A corpus-based study of grammatical post-metaphorical expressions by Zhou Jiangping, Gao Yanmei

“…This paper, evidenced from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), explores the specific pathway from metaphorical expressions to post-metaphorical ones guided by principles of Context-first and AS IF and the principle of double functionality. …”
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Western-centricity in Academia: by Paolo Coluzzi

“…First of all, the language, is, in most cases, English, but not Outer Circle Englishes or English as a Lingua Franca, but specifically British and/or American English. And this obviously creates a big barrier for authors who are not fluent in these varieties, which partly explains the dearth of authors coming from areas outside Europe and, more specifically, the United Kingdom and North America. …”
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The Conceptualisation of Impoliteness in Russian and English by Margarita L Kharlova

“…The analysis of the definitions, synonyms, and usages of the words for “impolite” in the languages under study in the lexicographical sources, in the National Corpus of the Russian Language, and the Corpus of Contemporary American English allow us to conclude that impoliteness possesses different linguocultural content. …”
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A GENRE AND COLLOCATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE NEAR-SYNONYMS TEACH, EDUCATE AND INSTRUCT: A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH by Thana Kruawong, Supakorn Phoocharoensil

“…Data were drawn from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (2021) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The findings from this investigation revealed that from distribution patterns among text types, teach is far more widely and commonly used than educate and instruct, with the highest frequency among eight genres. …”
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AI is great, isn’t it? Tone direction and illocutionary force delivery of tag ques-tions in Amazon’s AI NTTS Polly by Alfonso Carlos Rodríguez Fernández-Peña

“…The data included 600 utterances produced by British and American English voices currently available on Amazon’s NTTS. …”
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Contradictions and Regularities in Webster’s Works by Virginia Meirelles

“…However, he also believed that British English was not a model for American English because it did not follow “the analogy of the language.” …”
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Have media texts become more humorous? by Haoran Zhu, Yueqing Deng

“…This measure was applied to examine the diachronic changes in the degree of humour of American newspapers and magazines across a time span of 118 years (1900-2017) with the use of texts from Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). Besides, the study also discussed the contributions of different types of words to the degree of humour in the two genres. …”
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