Brian Walker
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brian Walker is involved.
2018 Chapter 4. Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse, Kranert, Michael and Geraldine Horan (eds.), pp. 81–104 | Chapter
In this chapter we use new corpus linguistic software tools to investigate the discourse(s) of labour relations in UK House of Commons debates over the 19th and 20th centuries. Our data is from the Hansard Corpus (1803–2005), and benefits from the annotation of meaning and sense categories with the… read more
2012 Keywords in the press: A critical corpus-assisted analysis of ideology in the Blair years (1998–2007) English Text Construction 5:2, pp. 208–229 | Article
This article describes a corpus-assisted study of some socio-political keywords (in a similar sense to Raymond Williams’ ‘cultural keywords’ 1983 [1976]), of newspaper reporting between 1998 and 2007, when Tony Blair’s New Labour government was in power. We approach the discovery of… read more
2011 Discourse presentation in Early Modern English writing: A preliminary corpus-based investigation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16:1, pp. 101–130 | Article
In this article we report on a pilot project investigating the presentation of speech, writing and thought in Early Modern English prose fiction and news writing. The aim of the project is to determine whether discourse presentation changes diachronically and what the function of the various… read more
Introducing HUM19: A corpus of 19th century British and Irish fiction International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This report introduces the HUM19 corpus of 19th century British and Irish novels and describes its construction. We characterise the HUM19 corpus as a specialised reference corpus that can be used both as a comparator against which other corpora or texts may be compared and as a study corpus,… read more