Sylvia Jaworska

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylvia Jaworska plays a role.

Title

Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts

Edited by Sylvia Jaworska and Torsten Leuschner

Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 9:1 (2018) vi, 172 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

This study explores the use of personal pronouns in the context of political agitation on Twitter in the run-up to the EU referendum 2016. Using a combination of corpus linguistic and discourse analytical techniques, it shows notable differences in the way in which personal pronouns were employed… read more | Chapter
Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner 2018 Crossing languages – crossing discourses: A corpus-assisted study of Kulturkampfin German, Polish and EnglishAnglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 117–147
Recent studies concerned with historical Germanisms have shown that public discourses in other languages often appropriate German loanwords as frames of reference to interpret political realities and influence collective attitudes. This paper intends to contribute to this new strand of research by… read more | Article
Leuschner, Torsten and Sylvia Jaworska 2018 Introduction: Anglo-German discourse crossings and contrastsAnglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 2–7
Introduction
The aim of this paper is to ascertain the degree to which lexical diversity, density and creativity in everyday spoken British English have changed over a 20-year period, as a function of age and gender. Usage patterns of four verb-forming suffixes, -ate, -en, -ify and -ize, were compared in… read more | Article
The aim of this paper is to contribute to learner corpus research into formulaic language in native and non-native German. To this effect, a corpus of argumentative essays written by advanced British students of German (WHiG) was compared with a corpus of argumentative essays written by German… read more | Article