Joanne Scheibman

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joanne Scheibman plays a role.

Title

Point of View and Grammar: Structural patterns of subjectivity in American English conversation

Joanne Scheibman

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 11] 2002. xiv, 187 pp.

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Scheibman, Joanne 2014 Referentiality, predicate patterns, and functions of we-utterances in American English interactions Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 23–44 | Article

This usage-based study of we examines formal and functional properties of English conversational utterances from the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, focusing on effects of the referentiality of the pronoun. Analyses suggest that different indexical uses of we have distinct formal… read more

Scheibman, Joanne 2010 Review of Simon-Vandenbergen & Aijmer (2007): The semantic field of modal certainty: A corpus-based study of English adverbs Functions of Language 17:1, pp. 126–133 | Review

Scheibman, Joanne 2009 Routinized uses of the first person expression for me in conversational discourse Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 615–638 | Article

Scheibman, Joanne 2007 Subjective and intersubjective uses of generalizations in English conversations Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.), pp. 111–138 | Article

Scheibman, Joanne 2006 Review of Maynard (2002): Linguistic emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse Functions of Language 13:1, pp. 119–130 | Review

Scheibman, Joanne 2001 Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English coversation Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Bybee, Joan L. and Paul J. Hopper (eds.), pp. 61–90 | Article

Bybee, Joan L., Paromita Chakraborti, Dagmar Jung and Joanne Scheibman 1998 Prosody and Segmental Effect Some Paths of Evolution for Word Stress Studies in Language 22:2, pp. 267–314 | Article

This study reports on a significant negative association found in a cross-linguistic sample between the degree of predictability of word stress from a word boundary and the extent to which stress has segmental effects. In other words, in a given language the less predictable stress is from the… read more