SYSTEM, cilt.39, sa.4, ss.533-538, 2011 (SSCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
This article examines a recent example of published research on the vocabulary profile of a financial corpus based on the Academic Word List (AWL) to illustrate not only the erroneous output from vocabulary profiling tools but also the pitfalls of using the AWL as a filter for academic lexis.