Jesse Egbert
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jesse Egbert plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2542-9477 | E-ISSN 2542-9485
Title
Register in L1 and L2 Language Development
Edited by Bethany Gray and Jesse Egbert
Special issue of Register Studies 3:2 (2021) v, 122 pp.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2023. What is a register? Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within – and outside of – textual varieties. Register Studies: Online-First Articles
Empirical studies of register variation have established the existence of functional correspondence between situation/context and language use. However, previous conceptualizations of register cannot adequately account for empirical findings which have revealed (i) situational and linguistic… read more | Editorial
2021. Chapter 2. Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space: Case studies from the web and natural conversation. Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 19–50
In text-linguistic register research, distributions of linguistic features across registers are theorized as having a functional relationship to the situational context. A strength of this approach is its focus on frequencies of linguistic features across texts/registers. Situational variables, by… read more | Chapter
2021. Register in L1 and L2 language development: Editorial. Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 177–179
Editorial
2020. Chapter 19. Orality on the searchable web: A comparison of involved web registers and face-to-face conversation. Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa and Tove Larsson (eds.), pp. 317–336
As Culpeper and Kytö (2010) discuss, one challenge of historical linguistics is the extent to which written texts represent the linguistic characteristics of speech. Synchronic linguists face similar challenges, leading to the practice of using a web corpus to represent the spectrum of… read more | Chapter
2020. Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:1, pp. 38–71
The present paper employs a corpus-based approach to track the longitudinal language development of university students. Compared to many other longitudinal studies, the present study tracks development over a relatively long period of time (two years) for a relatively large group of students… read more | Article
2020. Fiction – one register or two? Speech and narration in novels. Register Studies 2:1, pp. 72–101
In this paper our focus is on analyzing register variation within fiction, rather than between fiction and other registers. By working with subcorpora that separate text within and outside of quotation marks, we appromixate fictional speech and narration. This enables us to identify and compare… read more | Article
2020. Lexical dispersion and corpus design. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:1, pp. 89–115
Lexical dispersion is typically measured across arbitrary corpus parts of equal size. In this study, we apply DA
– a new dispersion index designed for unequal-sized corpus parts – to the British National Corpus (BNC) in a series of cases studies to show that the dispersion of a word is… read more | Article
2018. Lexis and grammar as complementary discourse systems for expressing stance and evaluation. The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 201–226
Although ‘stance’ and ‘evaluation’ are closely related theoretical constructs, stance is normally investigated through corpus-based methods focusing on the use of lexico-grammatical features, while evaluative language, being regarded as more context-dependent, has been investigated through the use… read more | Chapter
2015. Publication type and discipline variation in published academic writing: Investigating statistical interaction in corpus data. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:1, pp. 1–29
This study uses Multi-Dimensional analysis to describe linguistic variation in a corpus of published academic writing across three publication types in two disciplines. The resulting five dimensions were labeled: “Affective synthesis versus specialized information density”, “Definition and… read more | Article
2012. Style in nineteenth century fiction: A Multi-Dimensional analysis. Scientific Study of Literature 2:2, pp. 167–198
Recent years have seen substantial advances in ‘corpus stylistics’, which is the use of corpora and computational techniques to study literary style. Corpus stylistics has produced analyses of otherwise imperceptible features of literary style. However, studies in corpus stylistics have rarely… read more | Article