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Selected PublicationsCo-edited bookHunston, S. E. and Oakey, D. J. (Eds) (2010). Introducing Applied Linguistics: Concepts and Skills. New York: Routledge [Shortlisted for the 2011 BAAL Book Prize] Book chaptersOakey, D. J. (2011). "Using Corpus and Web Language Data to Create EAP Teaching Materials." In C. M. L. Ho, K. T. Anderson & A. P. Leong (Eds.), Transforming Literacies and Language: Multimodality and Literacy in the New Media Age. New York: Continuum. pp167-184 Oakey, D. J. (2010). "English vocabulary and collocation" in Hunston and Oakey (Eds) Introducing Applied Linguistics: Concepts and Skills. New York: Routledge. pp14-23 Oakey, D. J. (2009). "Fixed Collocational Patterns in Isolexical and Isotextual Versions of a Corpus." In P. Baker (Ed) Contemporary Corpus Linguistics. London: Continuum. pp142-160 Oakey, D. J. (2005). "Academic vocabulary in academic discourse: The phraseological behaviour of EVALUATION in Economics research articles." In Tognini-Bonelli, E. and Del Lungo Camiciotti, G. (Eds.), Strategies in Academic Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp169-183 Littlemore, J. and Oakey, D. J. (2004). "Communication with a purpose: Exploiting the Internet to promote language learning." In A. Chambers, J. Conacher and J. Littlemore (Eds.) ICT and Language Learning: Integrating Pedagogy and Practice. Birmingham: Birmingham University Press. pp85-105 Oakey, D. J. (2002a). "Lexical phrases for teaching academic writing in English: Corpus evidence." In S. Nuccorini (Ed.), Phrases and Phraseology - Data and Descriptions. Bern: Peter Lang. pp85-105 Oakey, D. J. (2002b). "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." In R. Reppen & S. Fitzmaurice & D. Biber (Eds.), Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp111-130 Oakey, D. J. (2001). "An EAP module via the Merlin Internet Learning Environment." in Howarth, P. and Herington, R. (Eds.) EAP Learning Technologies. Leeds: University of Leeds Press. pp115-128 Journal articles(In preparation) "Discourse Functions of Fixed Collocational Patterns in an Isotextual Corpus" Dunbar, E. J., Linklater, S. J. & Oakey, D. J. (2000). "The Mystery Project: Bridging the Gap Online." Educational Technology & Society 3/3 (July 2000) Special Issue Theme: On-line Collaborative Learning Environments Review articlesOakey, D.J. (2008) Review of Fellbaum, C. (2007). (Ed.) "Idioms and Collocations." ICAME Journal 32, (p240) April 2008 Oakey, D. J. (2006) Review of Sinclair, J. McH. (2004). (Ed.) "How to use Corpora in Language Teaching." ICAME Journal 30, (p126), April 2006 Oakey, D. J. (2000a) Review of Bickerton, D. and Gotti, M. (1999). "Language Centres: Integration through Innovation." ReCall Journal 12/1, May 2000 Oakey, D. J. (2000b). Review of "Excel at Academic English" ReCall Journal 12/2, November 2000 Oakey, D. J. (1999e). A personal view of BALEAP '99. ReCall Newsletter, 17. Selected conference presentations'Investigating Interdisciplinary Discourse: Corpus-Driven Indicators of Emerging Epistemologies.' Paper with Peter Mathias at Corpus Linguistics 2011, International Conference Centre, Birmingham, UK, 20–23 July 2011 'Improving Inter-Professional Communication in Health and Social Care: Levels and Types of Cooperation, Corpus Linguistics and Professional Practice.' Paper with Peter Mathias and Tony Thompson at the First Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP), Health Communication Research Centre, Cardiff University, UK, 23–24 June 2011 ' Diluting the Influence of Unequal Text Lengths in Comparative Subcorpora: an Experiment Using Lexical Bundles in Academic Discourse.' Paper at the First Symposium on Exploring the Boundaries and Applications of Corpus Linguistics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 15-17 April 2011 'Investigating the Epistemological Contribution of Collaborating Writers to the Discourse of an Interdisciplinary Field.' Paper with Peter Mathias at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2011 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 26-29 2011 'Lexico-grammatical Discourse Features of Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Co-operation.' Paper presented with Peter Mathias at the 8th Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse (MAD) 2010: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Signalling Text Organisation. University of Toulouse, Moissac, France, 18 March 2010 'An isotextual approach to comparisons of lexical bundles across disciplines.' Invited plenary presented at the 3rd Aston Corpus Symposium, Aston University, UK, 22 May 2009 ' What Is a Comparable Amount of Data?' Paper presented at the 4th CLARET Workshop, University of Birmingham, UK, 1 May 2008. 'Contiguous word combinations in isolexical and isotextual versions of a corpus.' Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2007, University of Birmingham, UK, 29 July 2007 'Absolute and pragmatic frequencies of lexical bundles in journal articles.' Invited paper presented at the Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, UK, 22 March 2007 'An investigation of the relationship between corpus composition and lexical bundle frequencies and functions.' Paper presented at the 7th conference of the American Association for Applied Corpus Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, USA, 20 October 2006 'Phraseology beyond the bundle: finding a way in.' Paper presented at the BAAL Corpus Linguistics SIG Seminar, The Open University, UK, 28 April 2006 'Computers, language, corpus linguistics, language description, and language teaching.' School of Education, University of Manchester, UK, 3 September 2006 'Absolute and pragmatic frequencies of word combinations in academic journal articles in English.' Paper presented at Phraseology 2005 Universite Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 14 October 2005 'Basing vocabulary materials for English for Academic Purposes on corpus data.' Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2005, University of Birmingham, UK, 17 July 2005 'Phraseology and Metaphor in EAP: an Introduction.' Paper presented at the BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting on Phraseology and Metaphor in EAP, University of Birmingham, UK, 19 June 2004 (with Jeannette Littlemore) 'Academic Vocabulary in Academic Discourse: the phraseological behaviour of EVALUATION in the discourse of Economics.' Paper presented at the Evaluation in Academic Discourse conference, Certosa di Pontignano, Universiti degli Studi di Siena, Italy, 16 June 2003 'Identifying frequent word combinations for students of Economics.' Plenary presented at the Professional Interests Meeting of the British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes (BALEAP) on Vocabulary in EAP, CELTE, University of Warwick, UK, 15 February 2003 'Using corpus analysis software for large and small-scale investigation of multi-word language features.' Paper presented at the Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universitat Dortmund, Germany, 15 July 2002 '"That's got to be the Loch Ness Monster!" Unscripted spoken discourse from the World Wide Web in EFL materials. ' Paper presented at the 1st Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Conference, University of Limerick/Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland, 14 June 2002 'Using IT to inform reading and vocabulary materials for pre-sessional students of Economics.' Paper presented at the Language Centre, London School of Economics, UK, 8 February 2002 'Lexical phrase variation across genres of academic English writing: Investigating a subset of the BNC.' Invited paper presented at Academic Discourse: genre and small corpora, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, 6 December 2001 'Lexical phrases for teaching academic writing in English: corpus evidence.' Paper presented at the 4th International Symposium on Phraseology, Universiti Roma III, Italy, 11 April 2001 'A corpus-based study of the formal and functional variation of a lexical phrase in academic writing in social science, medical, and technical disciplines.' Plenary presented at the BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting/IATEFL ESP Special Interest Group Meeting, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 11 November 2000 'A study of possible lexical phrases in a corpus of academic English.' Paper presented at the 2nd N. American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching, Northern Arizona University, USA, 2 April 2000 'An EAP module via the Merlin internet learning environment.' Paper presented at the Information Technology & Multimedia in English Language Teaching Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 6 November 1999 Press'Fancy footwork.' Letters to the Editor, The Guardian, 8 February 2008 ' Germaine Greer and The Plain English Campaign.' Letters to the Editor, The Guardian, 7 December 2006 Affiliations
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David Oakey teaches courses on corpus linguistics, the analysis and description of English grammar, and academic discourse. He began his teaching career in 1992 in Turkey, teaching English for Specific Purposes in the areas of Business and Economics in academic and private sector settings. He then worked in the UK as a tutor in English language at the University of Hull, and then as a lecturer in English language at the University of Birmingham, where he taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in pedagogy and materials development. He joined the Applied Linguistics Program in the Department of English at ISU in 2009. Dr Oakey's published research uses corpus linguistics to investigate the way English is used in different academic disciplines, and currently focuses on identifying the typical linguistic features of interdisciplinary research. One application of this work is to make collaborating researchers aware of different phraseological and epistemic practice in other disciplines. He is the co-editor of 
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