This collection of papers explores some facets in the areas of Corpus Linguistics and Phraseology which have gone unnoticed so far. With the aid of a range of different corpora and new-generation software tools, the authors tackle specialized domains and discourse in specialized settings, utilizing some innovative approaches to the study of recurrent features and patterns in the languages of economics, history, linguistics, politics, and other fields. The papers critically examine contemporary discourses in which experts and laypersons are equally involved, showing that the spoken and written texts, selected from various specialized corpora, can be seen as collective memory banks.

Recent changes in the world effected by the transformations of information technology, globalisation, and the move towards a knowledge economy over the last thirty years have been as radical and fundamental as the changes resulting from the invention of the wheel and the printing press. We are now living in a new age in which the demands are so complex, so multifarious and so rapidly changing that the only way in which we shall be able to survive them is by committing to a process of individual, communal, and global learning throughout the lifespan of all of us.

A dynamic four-level course, which thoroughly integrates practice of the four skills with work on vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Language is presented through interesting topics and themes. This is followed by practice, which begins with meaningful controlled exercises and gradually develops into freer, personalized activities.

The Workbook comes with a Portfolio, in which students record their progress and compile a portfolio of their work.

A dynamic four-level course, which thoroughly integrates practice of the four skills with work on vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Language is presented through interesting topics and themes. This is followed by practice, which begins with meaningful controlled exercises and gradually develops into freer, personalized activities. Students are provided with clear speaking and writing 'models' to give extra guidance for producing their own work. Language for everyday situations is presented and practised in the special English You Need section.

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the culmination of two decades of the author's research and thought, it explores the contribution of semantics to the argument-structure and tense-aspect constructions in which verbs occur, integrating the aspectual and causal structures of events.