David Coniam
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Coniam plays a role.
2004 Concordancing oneself: Constructing individual textual profiles International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9:2, pp. 271–298 | Article
This paper discusses the construction and analysis of a corpus of an individual's own academic writing. Following an examination of the area of academic writing and the position of academic writing corpora within it, the paper discusses how a ‘personal corpus’ might be put together, along with… read more
2002 Selecting models and setting standards for teachers of English in Hong Kong Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region, Tsui, Amy B.M. (ed.), pp. 13–37 | Article
The perception of falling standards in education, and in second language teaching in particular, has been a constant refrain for the past 20 years as changing needs and practices affect economic processes and manpower requirements. Within this context, this article deals with the establishment of… read more
1998 Partial Parsing: Boundary Marking International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:2, pp. 229–249 | Article
This paper describes a computer program which performs a particular type of grammatical/syntactic analysis—the assigning of structural boundaries between orthographic words in written English text. The Boundary Marker has been designed, in principle, as an analyser of unrestricted text and has… read more
1993 A Prototype Boundary Marker Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Article