Stephen Jeaco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen Jeaco plays a role.
2023 How can we communicate (visually) what we (usually) mean by collocation and keyness? A visual response to Gries (2022a) Journal of Second Language Studies 6:1, pp. 29–60 | Commentary
Corpus linguistic methods can now be easily employed in a wide range of studies within sub-disciplines of linguistics and well beyond. In a two-part paper, Gries (2022a, 2022b) challenges some of the most widely used ‘association measures’ of what many might feel to be powerful aspects of text… read more
2021 Exploring register with The Prime Machine: Promoting register awareness through a module for English majors at a Sino-British university in China Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 279–298 | Article
Corpus approaches underpin a range of postgraduate studies and professional work in language, linguistics, translation and beyond. Awareness of the influences of contextual features on language choice is important for many activities: exploring new text varieties; finding relationships between… read more
2021 Concordance line sorting in The Prime Machine International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:2, pp. 284–297 | Article
Corpus data provide evidence of the patterning of language, and one way word usage can be analysed is through the study of concordance lines. While popular concordancers provide different sorting methods, they are typically only able to display lines in the order in which they occur in the… read more
2020 Key words when text forms the unit of study: Sizing up the effects of different measures International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:2, pp. 125–155 | Article
Throughout the social sciences, there has been growing pressure to present effect sizes when publishing empirical data (see American Psychological Association, 2001; Parsons & Nelson, 2004). While it seems indisputable that for the majority of quantitative research foci, effect size is an… read more
2017 Concordancing lexical primings: The rationale and design of a user-friendly corpus tool for English language teaching and self-tutoring based on the Lexical Priming theory of language Lexical Priming: Applications and advances, Pace-Sigge, Michael and Katie J. Patterson (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Chapter
Lexical Priming (Hoey 2005) brings together a range of linguistic patterns that should be an important focus of language learning and teaching. But it also adds an additional load to learners and teachers, demanding attention to different primings of words and nested combinations of words. With… read more