David Brett
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Brett plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 8. Negative–positive adjective pairing in travel journalism in English, Italian, and Polish Recent Advances in Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology, Monti, Johanna, Gloria Corpas Pastor, Ruslan Mitkov and Carlos Manuel Hidalgo-Ternero (eds.), pp. 141–155 | Chapter
Adjectives play a particular role in the language of tourism and often contribute to the formation of recurrent phraseologies (Manca, 2008). The combination of adjectives bearing negative and positive connotation is widely reported in the literature (Dann, 1996; Edo Marzá, 2011, 2012).… read more
2018 Chapter 5. Constance and variability: Using PoS-grams to find phraseologies in the language of newspapers Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 107–130 | Chapter
This paper describes the use of a corpus-driven methodology, the retrieval of part-of-speech-grams (PoS-grams), which is extremely effective for the discovery of phraseologies that might otherwise remain hidden. The PoS-gram is a string of part-of-speech categories (Stubbs 2007: 91), the tokens of… read more