Introduction

Karin Aijmer and Diana Lewis

Abstract The aim of this issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics is to explore the comparability of discourse-pragmatic characteristics of genres across European languages, using parallel corpora (aligned translated texts) and/or comparable corpora (genre-matched original texts). The articles have their origin in a seminar at the 12th ESSE conference in Kosice, Slovakia 29 August-2 September 2014 convened by the editors.

Keywords Contrastive linguistics • Parallel corpora • Comparable corpora • Genre

The aim of this issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics is to explore the comparability of discourse-pragmatic characteristics of genres across European languages, using parallel corpora (aligned translated texts) and/or comparable corpora (genre-matched original texts). The articles have their origin in a seminar at the 12th ESSE conference in Kosice, Slovakia 29 August-2 September 2014 convened by the editors.