Bethan Malory
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bethan Malory plays a role.
Articles
2023 Pinpointing prescriptive impact: Using change point analysis for the study of prescriptivism at the idiolectal level International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper presents a single-author case study which demonstrates that the statistical modelling technique change point analysis (CPA) can provide compelling evidence of prescriptive impact at an idiolectal level. It has been hypothesized that Late Modern English review periodicals consistently… read more
2017 Tracing facework over time using semi-automated methods International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:1, pp. 27–56 | Article
Impolite behaviour tends to attract more evaluative comment than other facework, making it easier to investigate synchronically and diachronically. A reliance on metapragmatic commentary is not optimum for UK parliamentary studies, however, as MPs cannot use “insulting or rude language” that… read more