List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK), Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway), Markéta Malá (Charles University, Czech Republic) and Denisa Šebestová (Charles University, Czech Republic) 1. The State of the Art and Recent Trends in Corpus-Based Contrastive Linguistics, Karin Aijmer (Gothenburg University, Sweden) Part I. Lexico-Grammar in Contrast 2. Seeing through Languages and Registers: A Closer Look at the Cognates See and Se, Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (University of Oslo, Norway) 3. Periphrastic Genitive Constructions in English and Norwegian, Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway) 4. Double Object Constructions in English and Norwegian: Verbs of Sending, Bringing, Lending and Selling, Thomas Egan (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway) 5. Prepositional Patterns in English and Czech Newspaper Discourse, Denisa Šebestová and Markéta Malá (Charles University, Czech Republic) 6. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Journalistic Phraseology, Jiajin Xu, Guying Zhou, Xinlu Liu, Yuanyuan Wei, Ruchen Yu and Suhua Zhang (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China) 7. Corpus-Based Contrast in Audiovisual Customization: A Pilot Study on Can/Could and Subject Pronouns in Spanish Dubbing, Camino Gutiérrez-Lanza and Rosa Rabadán (Universidad de León, Spain) Part II. Discourse in Contrast 8. The Social Functions and Linguistic Patterns of Please and its Norwegian Correspondences, Stine Hulleberg Johansen and Kristin Rygg (University of Oslo and Norwegian School of Economics, Norway) 9. Discourse Connectives in English and French: A Contrastive Study on Political Discourse, Diana Lewis (Aix Marseille Université, France) 10. Reporting Verbs in English, Czech and Finnish, Anna Cermakova (Lancaster University, UK) and Lenka Fárová (Charles University, Czech Republic) 11. From Dashes to Dashes? A Contrastive Corpus Study of Dashes in English, German and Swedish, Jenny Ström Herold and Magnus Levin (Linnaeus University, Sweden) Index

Language is ubiquitous. As never before, it is now commonly understood how crucial language is for human interaction, for negotiating and shaping our material and ideational reality. In the digital age, the speed, scale and diversity of forms of communication and language use have grown rapidly. The increasing amount of language data that influences attitudes, decision-making and relationships highlights how the methodology of corpus linguistics together with the explanatory power of discourse analysis are indispensable for deciphering the world around us. Situated at the interface of corpus linguistics and discourse studies, the Corpus and Discourse series publishes innovative research where humanities and social sciences come together to understand the relationship between discourse and society in an increasingly digital world. Series Editors: Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham, UK) and Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) Consulting Editor: Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK) Editorial Board Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK Frantisek Cermák, Charles University, Prague Susan Conrad, Portland State University, USA Matteo Fuoli, University of Birmingham, UK Maristella Gatto, University of Bari, Italy Dominique Maingueneau, Université de Paris XII, France Christian Mair, University of Freiburg, Germany Alan Partington, University of Bologna, Italy Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex, UK Elena Tognini-Bonelli, University of Siena, Italy Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK Ruihua Zhang, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China Feng Zhiwei, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Beijing, China