Gavin Brookes
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gavin Brookes plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1384-6655 | E-ISSN 1569-9811
Titles
Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022)
Edited by Tony McEnery, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022) v, 161 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Language and Covid-19
Edited by Michaela Mahlberg and Gavin Brookes
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Articles
2022 Narrative evaluation in patient feedback: A study of online comments about UK healthcare services Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts, Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 9–35 | Article
This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England.… read more
2022 Keywords through time: Tracking changes in press discourses of Islam Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 399–427 | Article
This paper applies a new approach to the identification of discourses, based on Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), to the study of discourse variation over time. The MCA approach to keywords deals with a major issue with the use of keywords to identify discourses: the allocation of… read more
2022 Corpus studies of language through time: Introduction to the special issue Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 393–398 | Editorial
2021 Multiple Correspondence Analysis, newspaper discourse and subregister: A case study of discourses of Islam in the British press Register Studies 3:1, pp. 144–171 | Article
This article introduces a new method for grouping keywords and examines the extent to which it also allows analysts to explore the interaction of discourse and subregister. It uses the multivariate statistical technique, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, to reveal dimensions of keywords which… read more
2021 Language and Covid-19: Corpus linguistics and the social reality of the pandemic Language and Covid-19, Mahlberg, Michaela and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 441–443 | Introduction
2020 From burden to threat: A diachronic study of language ideology and migrant representation in the British press Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 113–140 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the ways in which non-native English speakers living in Britain are represented in the British press, and in particular on how these representations have changed between 2005 and 2017. Using a corpus-assisted approach to Critical Discourse Analysis, collocation patterns of… read more
2016 Opening up the NHS to market: Using multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the ongoing commercialisation of health care Multimodality, Politics and Ideology, Machin, David and Theo van Leeuwen (eds.), pp. 288–303 | Article
Since its implementation, the British Government’s controversial 2013 Health and Social Care Act has had far-reaching effects on health care provision in England, not least the creation of 212 regional practitioner-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which are now responsible for much of the… read more
