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.
Sylvia Jaworska
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sylvia Jaworska plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 Management by keywords: A corpus-based investigation into the discourse of six capitals in best practice integrated reporting Corpus Approaches to Business Communication, Gillings, Mathew and Susanne Kopf (eds.), pp. 331–360 | Article
We examine a corpus of integrated reports endorsed as best practice to explore how the concept of ‘capital’ and its novel extension into six types of capitals — including ‘human’, ‘social and relationship’, and ‘natural’ — are discursively constructed and legitimised in the corporate field. Our… read more
2019 After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: Political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit vote Reference and Identity in Public Discourses, Lutzky, Ursula and Minna Nevala (eds.), pp. 181–202 | Chapter
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
2018 Crossing languages – crossing discourses: A corpus-assisted study of Kulturkampf in German, Polish and English Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 117–147 | Article
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… read more
2018 Introduction: Anglo-German discourse crossings and contrasts Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 2–7 | Introduction
2017 A diachronic corpus-based study into the effects of age and gender on the usage patterns of verb-forming suffixation in spoken British English Compiling and analysing the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, McEnery, Tony, Robbie Love and Vaclav Brezina (eds.), pp. 375–402 | Article
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
2015 Formulaic sequences in native and non-native argumentative writing in German International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:4, pp. 500–525 | 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