This paper presents and discusses a computer-assisted study that seeks to investigate the use of discourse markers (“DMs”) in academic writing in English as a Foreign Language (“EFL”) by a group of in-service primary school teachers (“participants”). The aim of the study is to establish whether or not there would be differences in the use of DMs in the corpus of academic writing in EFL in literature and linguistics written by the participants, who concurrently with teaching EFL at a range of primary schools are enrolled in an in-service tertiary course in English. The corpus of the study consists of the participants’ i) reflective essays in English linguistics and children’s literature in English, respectively, and ii) analytic explanatory essays in English linguistics and children’s literature, respectively. The corpus of the participants’ essays was analysed quantitatively in order to identify the frequency of DMs per 1,000 words. The results of the quantitative data analysis indicated that the participants’ use of DMs seemed to be, primarily, determined by i) genre conventions of academic writing in English associated with reflective essays and analytic explanatory essays and ii) the participants’ individual preferences. These findings are further presented and discussed in the paper.

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This article introduces and discusses an empirical investigation that aimed to establish how pre-service teachers of English (hereinafter “participants”) framed their perceptions of Canvas, a learning management system (LMS), in their studies of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In the present study, the participants and their respective controls (i.e., non-teacher EFL students) were requested to write a short reflective essay associated with the use of the LMS in their EFL course. All participants and the control group used Canvas as their LMS. The corpus of the participants’ and controls’ reflective essays was analysed qualitatively by means of framing analysis. The results of the qualitative framing analysis revealed that whilst there were similarities in the participants’ and controls’ framing, the corpus of the participants’ essays involved instances of framing that were specific to the participants’ perceptions of Canvas. These findings and their linguo-didactic implications were further presented in the article.

This article involves a corpus-assisted quantitative analysis of discourse markers (further in the article -DMs) identified in the climate change sections of corporate annual reports by British Petroleum and the Royal Dutch Shell corporations. Corporate discourse involving climate change has been amply elucidated from the linguistic macro-perspective (Koteyko, 2012;Livesey, 2002), whilst the discursive micro-perspective still receives little attention. The present corpus-assisted study seeks to elucidate corporate discourse on climate change from the micro-perspective by identifying DMs in climate change sections of annual reports by British Petroleum and the Royal Dutch Shell corporations. Additionally, the novel aspect of the present study involves a juxtaposition of the to-beidentified DMs in annual reporting by these two corporations. The corpus of the study involves climate change sections of the annual reports by British Petroleum and the Royal Dutch Shell Group within the time frame from 2010 until 2015. The corpus has been analysed in WordSmith (Scott, 2012). Results of the data analysis indicate that the most frequent DMs used in climate change discourse by British Petroleum involve and (M = 4,2%), as (0,9%), also (M = 0,4%), likely (0,3%), and but (M = 0,15%), while DMs identified in the Royal Dutch Shell Group's climate change discourse comprise and (M = 2%), but (M = 0,15%), also (M = 0,6%), such (M = 0,2%), however (M = 0,2%), accordingly (M = 0,1%), furthermore (M = 0,16%), further ( M = 0,1%), and therefore (M = 0,1%). These findings are further presented and discussed in detail in the article.

This article involves a qualitative framing analysis of climate change discourse by Statoil, a Norwegian-based energy corporation, which is considered to be a major actor in the Norwegian fossil fuels market. The corpus of the present framing analysis consists of Statoil’s annual sustainability reports from 2001 until 2015 available online at the official Statoil websitewww.statoil.com. The framing analysis is based upon the methodological approach to framing described by Dahl (2015). The specific research aim of the present investigation is twofold: i) to identify Statoil’s framing of climate change discourse and ii) to compare how the framing changed diachronically from the time of the first sustainability report published in 2001 until the 2015 Sustainability Report. The results of the framing analysis indicate that Statoil’s climate change discourse in 2001-2015 is framed by a number of qualitatively different frames that are unequally distributed in diachrony, e.g. “Anthropogenic Cause”, “Battle”, “Corporate Responsibility”, “Emissions Reduction” etc. These frames are further presented and discussed in the article.