Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 11. Measuring informativity: The rise of compounds as informationally dense structures in 20th-century Scientific English Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 291–312 | Chapter
By applying data-driven methods based on information theory, this study adds to previous work on the development of the scientific register by measuring the informativity of alternative phrasal structures shown to be involved in change in language use in 20th-century Scientific English. The… read more
2019 Chapter 4. Typical linguistic patterns of English history texts from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century: An information-theoretic approach Writing History in Late Modern English: Explorations of the Coruña Corpus, Moskowich, Isabel, Begoña Crespo, Luis Puente-Castelo and Leida Maria Monaco (eds.), pp. 57–81 | Chapter
2014 Register diversification in evaluative language: the case of scientific writing Evaluation in Context, Thompson, Geoff † and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 241–258 | Article
In this chapter, we investigate register diversification in evaluative language focusing on scientific writing. For this purpose, we explore selected epistemic and attitudinal variants of evaluative expressions. We consider (1) the situational context of these expressions according to Systemic… read more