Introduction; Research on L2 Pragmatics at a conceptual and methodological interface; A focus on pragmatic competence; Written summarisation for academic writing skills development; Refining the Scope -- Substance error taxonomy; The uses and functions of metadiscourse in intercultural project discussions on language education; Does code-switching exist in personal writing?; Frequency analysis of trigger words and money-related expressions in British and Serbian bank offers; "I use English, but if need be I'm fluent in German as well."
Summary
This volume brings together contributions from the Klagenfurt Conference of Corpus-Based Applied Linguistics (CALK14), in order to extend corpus linguistic research in different areas of applied linguistics. The studies gathered here explore the opportunities that both spoken and written corpora offer for answering questions in different domains of applied linguistics such as second language learning, language testing, comparative linguistics, learner pragmatics and specialised discourses. At the same time, the contributions also give insight into possible limitations and further challenges of