Thomas A. Upton

List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas A. Upton plays a role.

Titles

Discourse on the Move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure

Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 28] 2007. xii, 289 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Discourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Edited by Ulla Connor and Thomas A. Upton

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 16] 2004. vi, 333 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton 2004 IntroductionDiscourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Miscellaneous
Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton 2004 The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysisDiscourse in the Professions: Perspectives from corpus linguistics, Connor, Ulla and Thomas A. Upton (eds.), pp. 235–255 | Article
Connor, Ulla, Kristen Precht and Thomas A. Upton 2002 Business English: Learner data from Belgium, Finland and the U. S.Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, Granger, Sylviane, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson (eds.), pp. 175–194 | Article
What makes non-profit, philanthropic discourse so persuasive has not been well explored to date. Using a specialized corpus of direct-mail letters from philanthropic organizations in five different fields, this study seeks to combine the tools of corpus analysis with the specificity of genre… read more