Professor Vaclav Brezina
Professor in Corpus LinguisticsMy main research interests are corpus linguistics, statistics, and the application of corpus methods in the study of speech and writing, learner language, collocations, phraseology and vocabulary. I am also interested in corpus design and corpus tools development. I welcome PhD proposals that focus on one or more of these areas.
At present, I am working on the development of the Written British National Corpus and the Trinity Lancaster Corpus of spoken L2 English. I also focus on methodological innovation in corpus linguistics and English vocabulary.
<糖心Vlog>Research GrantsBritish National Corpus (BNC) as a sociolinguistic dataset: Exploring individual and social variation
This project is funded by an ESRC Secondary data initiative (SDAI) grant EP/P001559/1. The aim of the project is to investigate sociolinguistic variation in the British National Corpus and implement the results of the research in educational practice.
<糖心Vlog>QualificationsMA in English Linguistics & Philosophy (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
PhD in Linguistics (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
<糖心Vlog>PhD Supervision InterestsI welcome PhD proposals that are related to my research interests. At present, I am in particular interested in supervising projects on the following topics: 1) Comparison of multiple corpora using statistical techniques and visualisation 2) Phraseology (e.g. collocations) in spoken and written learner corpora 3) Corpus-based sociolinguistics and development of new statistical methods 4) Investigation of different linguistic features in the new Trinity Lancaster Corpus of spoken L2 English
Selected Publications
Brezina, V., Gablasova, D. 30/11/2023 London : Routledge. 352 p. ISBN: 9781032272719, 9781032272696. Electronic ISBN: 9781003292043.
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McEnery, A., Brezina, V. 22/09/2022 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781107624689. Electronic ISBN: 9781107110625.
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Brezina, V. 2018 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 296 p. ISBN: 9781107565241. Electronic ISBN: 9781316410899.
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McEnery, A., Brezina, V., Gablasova, D., Banerjee, J.V. 1/03/2019 In: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 39, p. 74-92. 19 p.
Journal article
Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., McEnery, A.M. 06/2017 In: Language Learning. 67, Suppl. 1, p. 155-179. 25 p.
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Brezina, V. 2018 In: Lexical Collocation Analysis. Cham : Springer p. 59-83. 25 p. ISBN: 9783319925813. Electronic ISBN: 9783319925820.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Brezina, V. 10/06/2016 In: Triangulating methodological approaches in corpus linguistic research. London : Routledge p. 90-107. 18 p. ISBN: 9781138850255.
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., McEnery, A.M. 06/2017 In: Language Learning. 67, Suppl. 1, p. 130-154. 25 p.
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Brezina, V., Pallotti, G. 01/2019 In: Second Language Research. 35, 1, p. 99-119. 21 p.
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Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., McEnery, T., Boyd, E. 1/10/2017 In: Applied Linguistics. 38, 5, p. 613–637. 25 p.
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Brezina, V., McEnery, T., Wattam, S. 2015 In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 20, 2, p. 139-173. 35 p.
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Brezina, V., Meyerhoff, M. 2014 In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 19, 1, p. 1-28. 28 p.
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Brezina, V., Gablasova, D. 28/02/2015 In: Applied Linguistics. 36, 1, p. 1-22. 22 p.
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All Publications
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01/10/2025 → 31/07/2026
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01/10/2025 → 31/01/2027
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01/06/2024 → 31/05/2029
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01/09/2022 → 31/12/2025
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31/03/2022 → 31/12/2026
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01/03/2021 → 30/06/2024
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01/04/2019 → 31/12/2021
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01/09/2018 → 30/06/2026
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01/09/2018 → 30/04/2021
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01/04/2018 → 31/01/2024
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01/01/2017 → 31/07/2018
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01/11/2013 → 31/10/2016
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- ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science