Alexander Wahl
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Wahl plays a role.
2020 Computational extraction of formulaic sequences from corpora: Two case studies of a new extraction algorithm Computational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.), pp. 83–110 | Chapter
We describe a new algorithm for the extraction of formulaic language from corpora. Entitled MERGE (Multi-word Expressions from the Recursive Grouping of Elements), it iteratively combines adjacent bigrams into progressively longer sequences based on lexical association strengths. We then provide… read more
2015 Intonation unit boundaries and the storage of bigrams: Evidence from bidirectional and directional association measures Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:1, pp. 191–219 | Article
Much recent work on language and cognition has examined the psychological status of collocations/formulas/multi-word expressions as mentally stored units. These studies have used a variety of statistical metrics to quantify the degree of strength or association of these sequences, and then they… read more
2012 The global metastereotyping of Hollywood ‘dudes’: African reality television parodies of mediatized California style Media Intertextualities, Hiramoto, Mie (ed.), pp. 31–55 | Article
This study investigates the phenomenon of metastereotyping — that is, the linguistic parody of stereotypic mediatized personas. The analysis draws on data from the 2008 reality television program Big Brother Africa 3, in which contestants ironically perform the lead characters from a 1989 Hollywood… read more
2010 The global metastereotyping of Hollywood ‘dudes’: African reality television parodies of mediatized California style Media Intertextualities: Semiotic mediation across time and space, Hiramoto, Mie (ed.), pp. 209–233 | Article
This study investigates the phenomenon of metastereotyping — that is, the linguistic parody of stereotypic mediatized personas. The analysis draws on data from the 2008 reality television program Big Brother Africa 3, in which contestants ironically perform the lead characters from a 1989 Hollywood… read more