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Cronin, Marianne Eve (2018). 'Feck off!' Exploring the relationship between impoliteness, laughter and humour in the British-Irish sitcomes Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Cresswell, Anna Elizabeth (2019). 21st century language policy in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. University of Birmingham. M.A.

Trklja, Aleksandar (2014). A corpus linguistics study of translation correspondences in English and German. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Main, Timothy Peter (2018). A corpus-based study of the effects of collocation, phraseology, grammatical patterning, and register on semantic prosody. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Li, Shuangling (2015). A corpus-based study of the high frequency nouns 'time' and 'thing': Investigating the role of phraseology in the construction of meaning in discourse. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Stroud, Robert (2018). A task-based language teaching approach to group discussions in Japanese university classrooms: an empirical study of goal-setting and feedback. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Jego, Eric Hajime (2022). Assessing oral communication skills of EFL novice medical students: interactional competence and the Roter Interaction Analysis System. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Shih, Pei Chun (2011). Cross-linguistic transference of politeness phenomena. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sevigny, Paul Gregory ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7812-4834 (2019). Designing L2 literature circle discussion: tools for teachers and researchers. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Turner, Russell (2020). Detector control systems and searches for leptonic decays of the Higgs Boson in the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Mendes Jacques da Costa, António Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6305-8400 (2023). Direct search for the Higgs boson to charm coupling with the ATLAS experiment. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Huang, Xiaomei (2023). Disciplinary and intra-disciplinary developmental variation in shell noun use in undergraduate student writing. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Al Makoshi, Manal A. (2014). Discourse markers and code-switching: academic medical lectures in Saudi Arabia using English as the medium of instruction. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ierace, Gaia (2019). Evaluative rhetorical strategies in the broadsheet review genre: the case of four British broadsheets. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hirata, Yoko (2017). Facilitating communication-oriented activities through data-driven learning. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Brown, Howard Gordon (2018). Getting started with English-medium instruction in Japan: key factors in program planning and implementation. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alajaji, Nourah (2016). How medical students express their attitudes towards their reflective experience in teaching hospitals: A corpus-based approach to the analysis of evaluation in reflective reports. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Quinn, Cynthia Crosby (2020). L2 writers referencing corpora to address accuracy: a qualitative analysis of learners' lexicogrammatical error corrections. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ileri, Nurcan (2019). Lexical phrases in research article and PhD thesis abstracts in applied linguistics and psychology. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hill, Sharon Grigsby (2023). Linguistic analysis: the impact of African American Vernacular English on the work of non-deaf American sign language/English interpreters. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sukaew, Thitima (2020). Linguistic and cultural oppositions in discourse about Thailand. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Clarke, Isobelle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5541-6327 (2020). Linguistic variation across Twitter and Twitter trolling. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Grossman, Barry Hale (2018). Metaphorically-construed self-awareness in reflexive constructions. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Goktas, Yasin (2023). Mobile learning of English speaking and listening skills via smartphones. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Hadley, David Richard (2011). Search for a High Mass Higgs Boson in the Channel H - ZZ - llbb and digital filtering for the ATLAS level-1 calorimeter trigger. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Baca, Matthew (2018). Search for production of dark matter in association with a Higgs boson decaying to bb with the ATLAS detector. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Allbrooke, Benedict Marc Miller (2015). Search for the Higgs Boson decaying to a b quark pair produced in association with a W Boson using missing transverse energy triggered events at ATLAS. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Reynolds, Elliot Thomas James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1506-5750 (2019). Searching for new physics in decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

AlAjaji, Eman Abdullah (2016). Self-representation in academic writing: a copus-based exploratory study of the College of Nursing students' academic writing. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Foster, Andrew Geoffrey (2018). Single dissociative diffraction of protons in \(\sqrt {s}\) = 8 TeV collisions with the ATLAS experiment. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nasseri, Maryam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4421-2518 (2021). Statistical modelling of lexical and syntactic complexity of postgraduate academic writing: a genre and corpus-based study of EFL,ESL, and English L1 M.A. dissertations. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Roads, Judith (2015). The distinctiveness of Quaker prose, 1650-1699: a corpus-based enquiry. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Ghio, Ivan (2020). The division of deontic labour in the discourse of HIV/AIDS post-1996. A critical discourse analysis of necessity and obligation in the British press and interviews with gay men with HIV. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Sepehri, Mehrdad (2015). The effects of data driven learning on Iranian EFL learners' writing skills development. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Oswald-Trefz, Susanne (2022). The effects of internal and external factors on the non-standard usages of English by the emerging workforce of Central Switzerland: a spoken corpus study. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Moreton, Emma Louise (2016). The emigrant letter digitised: markup and analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Nausa, Ricardo (2019). The language of oral presentations given by PhD researchers in an EAP class: level of performance and disciplinary differences. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Harun, Farah Nadia (2021). The representation of Saudi women in Al-Jazirah and BBC Arabic: corpus-based critical discourse analysis. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

Alzeer, Sarah N M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3710-2388 (2022). Toward a tool for evaluating corpus-based word list for use in English language teaching contexts. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.