David Wright

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Wright is involved.

Title

Corpus Perspectives on Legal Discourse

Edited by David Wright

Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 31:1 (2026) v, 138 pp.

Articles

Wright, David 2026 Corpus perspectives on legal discourse: Introduction to the Special Issue Corpus Perspectives on Legal Discourse, Wright, David (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Introduction

This editorial introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics on corpus perspectives on legal discourse. It first situates corpus-based research within the broader empirical tradition of language and law studies, tracing the emergence of a ‘corpus turn’ from the… read more

Brookes, Gavin and David Wright 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… read more

Wright, David 2017 Using word n-grams to identify authors and idiolects: A corpus approach to a forensic linguistic problem International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:2, pp. 212–241 | Article

Forensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying the writers of anonymous criminal documents. Over the last twenty years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of statistical procedures using a number of different linguistic features to measure similarity between texts.… read more