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Professor Vaclav Brezina

Professor in Corpus Linguistics

  1. In Press/Forthcoming
  2. Forthcoming

    Core vocabulary lists

    Gablasova, D. & Brezina, V., expected on 8/01/2026, (Accepted/In press) Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Chapelle, C. A. (ed.). 2nd ed. ed. Wiley

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  3. 2024
  4. Forthcoming

    Building a corpus of student academic writing in EMI contexts: Challenges in corpus design and data collection across international higher education settings

    Gablasova, D., Harding, L., Bottini, R., Brezina, V., Ren, H., Iamartino, G., Li, Y., Liu, T., Pogessi, L., Savski, K., Toomaneejinda, A. & Zottola, A., 18/07/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Developing a coding scheme for annotating opinion statements in L2 interactive spoken English with application for language teaching and assessment

    Jung, Y., Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & Schmueck, H., 2/07/2024, In: Research in Corpus Linguistics. 12, 2, p. 146-173 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Expressions of epistemic stance in computer-mediated L2 speaking assessment: A corpus-based approach

    Gablasova, D., Harding, L., Brezina, V. & Dunlea, J., 28/06/2024, In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. 10, 1, p. 183-215 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Forthcoming

    Adjective + noun collocations in L2 spoken English: How robust is the effect of proficiency?

    Gablasova, D. & Brezina, V., 22/05/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. E-pub ahead of print

    Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation

    Hanks, E., McEnery, A., Egbert, J., Larsson, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., Baker, P., Brezina, V., Brookes, G., Clarke, I. & Bottini, R., 3/03/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research in Corpus Linguistics. 12, 2, p. 24-44 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. E-pub ahead of print

    Individual word and phrase frequency effects in collocational processing: Evidence from typologically different languages, English and Turkish

    Oksuz, D. C., Brezina, V., Monaghan, P. & Rebuschat, P., 23/01/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. 2023
  11. Published

    A Frequency Dictionary of British English: Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners

    Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D., 30/11/2023, London: Routledge. 352 p. (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  12. Published

    Corpus Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: Investigating 'personification' in first-person accounts of voice-hearing

    Collins, L., Brezina, V., Demjén, Z., Semino, E. & Woods, A., 31/01/2023, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 28, 1, p. 28-59 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. 2022
  14. Published

    Statistics and data visualisation

    Brezina, V. & Casaponsa, A., 30/12/2022, Introducing Linguistics. Culpeper, J., Malory, B., Nance, C., Van Olmen, D., Atanasova, D., Kirkham, S. & Casaponsa, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 426-446 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  15. Forthcoming

    Phraseological complexity in EFL learners’ spoken production across proficiency levels

    Paquot, M., Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & Naets, H., 30/11/2022, (Accepted/In press) Complexity, Accuracy & Fluency in Learner Corpus Research. Leńko-Szymańska , A. & Götz , S. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Vol. 104. p. 115-136 (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; vol. 104).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  16. Published

    Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics

    McEnery, A. & Brezina, V., 22/09/2022, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  17. Published

    #LancsBox X

    Brezina, V. & Platt, W., 2022, ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS).

    Research output: Other contribution

  18. 2021
  19. Published

    Words that matter in L2 research and pedagogy: A corpus-linguistics perspective

    Gablasova, D. & Brezina, V., 31/12/2021, In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 43, 5, p. 958-961 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  20. Published

    Statistics and data visualization

    Brezina, V. & Bottini, R., 21/12/2021, The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication. Hanganu-Bresch, C., Zerbe, M., Cutrufello, G. & Maci, S. (eds.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  21. Published

    The Written British National Corpus 2014 – Design and comparability

    Brezina, V., Hawtin, A. & McEnery, A., 1/10/2021, In: Text and Talk. 41, 5-6, p. 595-615 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Slavery and Britain in the 19th century

    McEnery, A., Baker, H. & Brezina, V., 5/09/2021, Time in Languages, Languages in Time. Čermáková , A., Egan, T., Hasselgård, H. & Rørvik, S. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 9-38 29 p. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; vol. 101).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  23. Published

    Collocation graphs and networks using #LancsBox: Applications in English and Czech

    Březina, V. & Pořízka, P., 31/07/2021, In: Casopis pro Moderni Filologii. 103, 1, p. 36-59 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Adjective + noun collocations in L2 and L1 speech: Evidence from the trinity Lancaster corpus and the spoken BNC2014

    Brezina, V. & Fox, L., 8/07/2021, Perspectives on the L2 Phrasicon: The View from Learner Corpora. Granger, S. (ed.). Bristol: Multilingual Matters, p. 152-177 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  25. Published

    Collocational processing in L1 and L2: The effects of word Frequency, collocational frequency, and association

    Oksuz, D. C., Brezina, V. & Rebuschat, P., 1/03/2021, In: Language Learning. 71, 1, p. 55-98 44 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. 2019
  27. Published

    Collocations and colligations: Visualizing lexicogrammar

    McEnery, T. & Brezina, V., 16/12/2019, Patterns in Language and Linguistics: New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept. Busse, B. & Moehlig-Falke, R. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 97-123 27 p. (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  28. Published

    Introduction: Corpus-based approaches to spoken L2 production: The evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus

    Brezina, V., Gablasova, D. & McEnery, A., 30/11/2019, In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. 5, 2, p. 119-125 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  29. Published

    Usage Fluctuation Analysis: A new way of analysing shifts in historical discourse

    McEnery, A., Brezina, V. & Baker, H., 1/11/2019, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 24, 4, p. 413-444 32 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Functional variation in the Spoken BNC2014 and the potential for register analysis

    Love, R., Brezina, V., McEnery, A., Hawtin, A., Hardie, A. & Dembry, C., 25/09/2019, In: Register Studies. 1, 2, p. 301-323 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    The Trinity Lancaster Corpus: Development, Description and Application

    Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & McEnery, A., 24/09/2019, In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. 5, 2, p. 126-158 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Erik Castello, Katherine Ackerley and Francesca Coccetta (Eds.), Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment

    Brezina, V. & Bottini, R., 13/03/2019, In: International Journal of Learner Corpus Research. 5, 1, p. 113-117 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  33. Published

    Corpus Linguistics, learner corpora and SLA: employing technology to analyze language use

    McEnery, A., Brezina, V., Gablasova, D. & Banerjee, J. V., 1/03/2019, In: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 39, p. 74-92 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Morphological complexity in written L2 texts

    Brezina, V. & Pallotti, G., 01/2019, In: Second Language Research. 35, 1, p. 99-119 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    The Trinity Lancaster Corpus: Applications in language teaching and materials development

    Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & McEnery, A., 2019, Learner Corpora and Language Teaching. Gotz, S. & Mukherjee, J. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 7-28 22 p. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics; vol. 92).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  36. Published

    The Trinity Lancaster Corpus

    Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & McEnery, A., 2019

    Research output: Other contributionData-set for REF Submission

  37. 2018
  38. Published

    Spoken British National Corpus 2014

    McEnery, A., Love, R., Hardie, A. J., Brezina, V., Dembry, C. & Timperley, M., 1/11/2018, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University. UK.

    Research output: Other contribution

  39. Published

    The corpus method

    Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D., 5/02/2018, English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Culpeper, J., Kerswill, P., Wodak, R., McEnery, T. & Katamba, F. (eds.). 2nd ed. ed. Palgrave Macmillan

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  40. Published

    #LancsBox v. 4.x

    Brezina, V., Timperley, M. & McEnery, A., 2018

    Research output: Other contribution

  41. Published

    Collocation Graphs and Networks: Selected Applications

    Brezina, V., 2018, Lexical Collocation Analysis. Cantos-Gómez, P. & Almela-Sánchez, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 59-83 25 p. (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences ).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  42. Published

    Statistics in Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Guide

    Brezina, V., 2018, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 296 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  43. 2017
  44. Published

    Disagreement in L2 spoken English: From learner corpus research to corpus-based teaching materials

    Gablasova, D. & Brezina, V., 30/11/2017, Learner Corpus Research: New Perspectives and Applications. London: Bloomsbury, p. 69-89 21 p. (Corpus and Discourse).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  45. Published

    Introduction: compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014

    McEnery, T., Love, R. & Brezina, V., 23/11/2017, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 22, 3, p. 311-318 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorial

  46. Published

    Epistemic stance in spoken L2 English: the effect of task and speaker style

    Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., McEnery, T. & Boyd, E., 1/10/2017, In: Applied Linguistics. 38, 5, p. 613–637 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. Published

    How to produce vocabulary lists? Issues of definition, selection and pedagogical aims: A response to Gabriele Stein

    Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D., 1/10/2017, In: Applied Linguistics. 38, 5, p. 764-767 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  48. Published

    How Large Is the BNC? A Proposal for Standardised Tokenization and Word Counting

    Brezina, V. & Timperley, M., 28/07/2017.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  49. Published

    Collocations in corpus-based language learning research: identifying, comparing and interpreting the evidence

    Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & McEnery, A. M., 06/2017, In: Language Learning. 67, Suppl. 1, p. 155-179 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  50. Published

    Exploring learner language through corpora: comparing and interpreting corpus frequency information

    Gablasova, D., Brezina, V. & McEnery, A. M., 06/2017, In: Language Learning. 67, Suppl. 1, p. 130-154 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Ireland in British parliamentary debates 1803–2005: Plotting changes in discourse in a large volume of time-series corpus data

    Baker, H. S., Brezina, V. & McEnery, A. M., 2017, Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics. Säily, T., Nurmi, A., Palander-Collin, M. & Auer, A. (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 83-107 25 p. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics; vol. 7).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  52. Published

    The Spoken BNC2014: designing and building a spoken corpus of everyday conversations

    Love, R., Dembry, C., Hardie, A., Brezina, V. & McEnery, T., 2017, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 22, 3, p. 319-344 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineSpecial issuepeer-review

  53. 2016
  54. Published

    Collocation networks: exploring associations in discourse

    Brezina, V., 10/06/2016, Triangulating methodological approaches in corpus linguistic research. Baker, P. & Egbert, J. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 90-107 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  55. 2015
  56. Published

    Is there a core general vocabulary? introducing the New General Service List

    Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D., 28/02/2015, In: Applied Linguistics. 36, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  57. Published

    Collocations in context: a new perspective on collocation networks

    Brezina, V., McEnery, T. & Wattam, S., 2015, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 20, 2, p. 139-173 35 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  58. Published

    Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech? evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus

    Gablasova, D. & Brezina, V., 2015, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. Romero-Trillo, J. (ed.). Springer, Vol. 3. p. 117-136 20 p. (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ; vol. 3).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  59. 2014
  60. Published

    Significant or random? a critical review of sociolinguistic generalisations based on large corpora

    Brezina, V. & Meyerhoff, M., 2014, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 19, 1, p. 1-28 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  61. 2013
  62. Published

    Corpus tools in EAP: a response to Davies (2013)

    Brezina, V., 12/2013, In: Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 12, 4, p. 311-312 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  63. Published

    Certainty and uncertainty in spoken language: in search of epistemic sociolect and idiolect

    Brezina, V., 2013, Variation in language and language use : linguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives. Reif-Hülser, M., Robinson, J. A. & Pütz, M. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, p. 97-130 34 p. (Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft ; vol. 96).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  64. Published

    Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology

    Brezina, V., 2013, Philosophy and anthropology: border crossing and transformations.. Giri, A. K. & Clammer, J. R. (eds.). London: Anthem Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  65. 2012
  66. Published

    Use of Google Scholar in corpus-driven EAP research

    Brezina, V., 12/2012, In: Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 11, 4, p. 319-331 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  67. Published

    Google Scholar as a linguistic tool: new possibilities in EAP

    Brezina, V., 2012, Future directions in applied linguistics: local and global perspectives. Gitsaki, C. & Baldauf, R. B. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishers

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  68. 2010
  69. Published

    "Definitely know what I’d do”: In search of epistemic sociolect/idiolect

    Brezina, V., 2010, Preceedings from the LAUD symposium.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  70. 2009
  71. Published

    “We only say we are certain when we are not”: a corpus-based study of epistemic stance

    Brezina, V., 2009, The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference SLOVKO 2009. Bratislava: Tribun

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  72. 2008
  73. Published

    'Já myslím, že určitě' – vybrané jistotní a postojové známky v rozhovorech

    Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D., 2008, Čeština v mluveném korpusu. Kopřivová, M. & Waclawičová, M. (eds.). Prague: Lidové noviny, (Studie z korpusové lingvistiky; vol. 7).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  74. 2007
  75. Published

    Spoken word, written text and beyond

    Brezina, V., 2007, Preproceedings of the Wittgenstein Symposium.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

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