Month: January 2023
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Welcoming the Approaching Festive Season: A Corpus-Based Investigation of “Xuân” Clusters in Vietnamese Tết Music
Vietnam, together with many other Asian countries, is culturally well-known for their celebrations on the occasion of Lunar New Year, or Tết. This time is long believed to be a fresh start for an incredible new journey. Tết is also a public holiday in Vietnam, when most services are closed and people come back home…
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Corpora Helped Me With Some Language Problems That Dictionaries Cannot
Two weeks ago, in one of my student’s writings, he wrote: “…global warming effects which causes dramatic damages to people at scale.” Putting the grammatical problem with “causes” aside, I was particularly into the phrase “at scale”. “Where on earth has he learned this awkward phrase?”, I wondered. As usual, I went for dictionaries to…
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