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This research examines the uses of get in contexts where the verb is followed by nominal phrases and it aims at proposing a mapping of the constructions where this predicate may occur. The research adopts the methodological perspective of Corpus Linguistics (McENERY; HARDIE, 2012) for the selection and extraction of data of language in use from a corpus of American English (Corpus of Contemporary American English-COCA), and the theoretical framework adopts the perspective of Cognitive Construction Grammar (GOLDBERG, 1995; 2006), for the analysis and categorization of the data in constructions. More specifically, the constructional mapping referred to has the objective to describe the linguistic behavior of get in two levels of analysis, namely: (1) In the constructional level, by highlighting the main syntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the grammatical contexts in which the verb occurs and; (2) In the lexical level, by emphasizing and discussing the main phraseologisms headed by get. The study corpus is composed of 9.210 utterances extracted from COCA and it contains get in all of its possible morphological forms, that is, the search run in the corpus made use of the lemmatized form of the verb so as to generate distinct instantiations of get (get, gets, getting, got, gotten). As for the collocates, the method of search and selection of the nominal complements prioritized the 50 most frequent nouns to the right of get, also in their lemmatized forms, in order to guarantee a considerable semantic variability amongst the elements with which the verb under analysis collocates. The conclusions at which this study arrived confirm the polysemous behavior and the syntactic versatility of get (ISRAEL, 2004), by outlining 13 constructional contexts in which the verb is productive. Nevertheless, the quantitative analysis of the data shows the preference of get for the transitive construction, context in which the licensed central meaning is that of obtention. As for the behavior of get in the lexical level, the study corpus highlighted 74 phraseological units headed by get.

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The purpose of this article is to explore and report some possible uses of corpus linguistics tools and techniques in a preparatory course for an international exam, focusing on helping students use corpora to find and analyze collocations and colligations when doing and creating multiplechoice cloze exercises. The participants were undergraduate students taking either a teacher training or a translation program. After discussing some research carried out on the pedagogical implications of using corpora, the article presents how a six-session preparatory course was designed and implemented, and the tools used to check participants’ perception of learning. The compiled data analyzed how participants reacted towards using an online corpus while getting themselves ready for the Use of English component of exams. The results demonstrated that corpus techniques were felt to be useful tools as far as fostering students’ autonomy was concerned. The study ends with a brief discussion on its limitations.

This essay is influenced greatly by Lonergan's insights on communication as found in his "Method in Theology" as well as some readings in contemporary hermeneutics, particularly that of Paul Ricoeur.But even if Lonergan figures prominently in the reflection, the idea of "communication" as developed in this paper is not limited to the functional specialty in Theology that Lonergan conceived it to be. Rather, it is considered in a broader way: as a function of the Church to whom is entrusted the communication of the christian message; and of every christian who, even if not a theologian, takes his mission to proclaim the Gospel seriously.The basic theme that underlies the whole reflection is: Communication is essentially correlative to Interpretation. Hence, every critique of the distortions in communication must be complemented by a critique of the distortions in interpretation.The practical aspect of this work is the examination of two documents of the Church on the media of social communication in view of determining the different frameworks of interpretation operative in both.2"The concrete is the real, not under this or that aspect but under its every aspect in its every instance." Ibid., p. 36.3/bid., p. 78.