Andrew Kehoe
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrew Kehoe plays a role.
2024 Chapter 6. Establishing a ‘new normal’: Detecting fluctuating trends in word frequency over time Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Buschfeld, Sarah, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Chapter
In this chapter we introduce statistical methods and associated visualisations for the analysis of lexical change on a monthly basis in a 1.8-billion word news corpus spanning over 30 years. In previous work (Kehoe et al. 2022) we found examples of word frequency change in a data-driven manner… read more
2024 From pre-owned printers to pristine Porsches: A corpus linguistic analysis of eBay item descriptions Corpus Approaches to Business Communication, Gillings, Mathew and Susanne Kopf (eds.), pp. 302–330 | Article
Recent years have seen a considerable increase in e-commerce, with sales forecast to continue rising over the coming years. This study provides a corpus linguistic analysis of item descriptions on eBay’s UK website, on which both members of the public and businesses can offer goods for sale. It… read more
2022 A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 285–318 | Chapter
This paper conducts a diachronic study of language change in a corpus covering almost 30 years of mainstream UK news text. In our previous studies, several databases were compiled from the corpus, including diachronic records of word frequency, collocation and morphological analysis. Upon user… read more
2019 “Thanks for the donds”: A corpus linguistic analysis of topic-based communities in the comment section of The Guardian Reference and Identity in Public Discourses, Lutzky, Ursula and Minna Nevala (eds.), pp. 127–158 | Chapter
In this chapter we use corpus linguistic techniques to analyse reader comments on the website of the UK newspaper The Guardian. Our research is based on a corpus containing over 500,000 articles published on the website from 2007 to 2010, along with all 6.2 million comments made on those articles.… read more
2016 Your blog is (the) shit : A corpus linguistic approach to the identification of swearing in computer mediated communication International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:2, pp. 165–191 | Article
The study of swearing has increased in the last decade, diversifying to include a wider range of data and methods of analysis. Nevertheless, certain types of data and specifically large corpora of computer mediated communication (CMC) have not been studied extensively. In this paper, we fill a… read more
2013 Filling the gaps: Using the WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine to supplement existing text resources International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18:2, pp. 167–198 | Article
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the functionality of the WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine (WebCorpLSE) by comparing it with two other freely-available online data resources: Google and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). In particular, the paper looks at how WebCorpLSE can… read more