Sheryl Prentice
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sheryl Prentice plays a role.
Articles
2021 Problematising characteristicness: A biomedical association case study International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:3, pp. 305–335 | Article
Keyness is a commonly used method in corpus linguistics and is assumed to identify key items that are characteristic of 1 corpus when compared to another. This paper puts this assumption to the test by comparing case study corpora in the fields of genetic, immunological and psychiatric… read more
2012 The language of Islamic extremism: Towards an automated identification of beliefs, motivations and justifications International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:2, pp. 259–286 | Article
Recent studies have sought to understand individuals’ motivations for terrorism through terrorist material content. To date, these studies have not capitalised on automated language analysis techniques, particularly those of corpus linguistics. In this paper, we demonstrate how applying three… read more
2009 Empowerment and disempowerment in the Glencairn Uprising: A corpus-based critical analysis of Early Modern English news discourse Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10:1, pp. 23–55 | Article
The Glencairn Uprising (1653–1654) was a military rebellion by Scottish Highlanders under the leadership of William, Earl of Glencairn, against the English government of Oliver Cromwell. This paper investigates the presentation of actors and groups on both sides of the Uprising — but most… read more