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Dr David Oakey BA, MEd, PhD, FHEA

Senior Lecturer English

Publications

Selected Publications

  1. What can a corpus tell us about lexis? (Chapter - 2022)
  2. Phrases in EAP academic writing pedagogy: Illuminating Halliday’s influence on research and practice (Journal article - 2020)
  3. Beyond single domains: writing boundary crossing (Chapter - 2014)
  4. Fixed collocational patterns in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus (Chapter - 2009)
  5. Phraseology and imagery in UK public health agency COVID-19 tweets (Chapter - 2022)
  6. “I will say the picture of the background is not related to the words”: using corpus linguistics and focus groups to reveal how speakers of English as an additional language perceive the effectiveness of the phraseology and imagery in UK public health tweets during COVID-19 (Journal article - 2023)
  7. Formulaic language in English academic writing: A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in different academic disciplines in English. (Chapter - 2002)
  8. Learners' Perceived Development of Spoken Grammar Awareness after Corpus-Informed Instruction: An Exploration of Learner Diaries (Journal article - 2024)
  9. Introducing Applied Linguistics (Book - 2009)