Sean Thornton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sean Thornton plays a role.
Article
2018 Does a corpus informed analysis provide any insights as to why Robert Phillipson’s theory of Linguistic Imperialism is labelled by some as a conspiracy theory? Pragmatics and Society 9:2, pp. 252–273 | Article
This paper uses the corpus tools DOTA and WordSmith to see if they can provide any indication as to why some label Phillipson’s theory of Linguistic Imperialism as a conspiracy theory. The tools were applied to multiple corpora composed of texts drawn from: Phillipson’s works, conspiracy theory… read more