Register and social media
Edited by Isobelle Clarke and Jack Grieve
Special issue of Register Studies 4:2 (2022) v, 190 pp.
Jack Grieve
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jack Grieve plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2020 Dialect syntax in Construction Grammar: Theoretical benefits of a constructionist approach to double modals in English The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 248–258 | Article
This squib focuses on two main issues. Firstly, it examines the ways in which constructionist approaches to language can bring about an improved theoretical understanding of Double Modals (DMs) in dialects of English. DMs have proved to be a long-lasting, notorious puzzle in formal linguistics,… read more
2019 Chapter 9. The evolution of a legal genre: Rhetorical moves in British patent specifications, 1711 to 1860 Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse, Fanego, Teresa and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.), pp. 201–234 | Chapter
This chapter provides a diachronic corpus-based analysis of a vitally important, yet currently very under-researched, legal genre: the patent specification. The empirical focus of the analysis is on changes in the rhetorical move structure of the patent specification genre over the first 150 years… read more
2014 Chapter 1.1 A Multi-Dimensional analysis of regional variation in American English Multi-Dimensional Analysis, 25 years on: A tribute to Douglas Biber, Berber Sardinha, Tony and Marcia Veirano Pinto (eds.), pp. 3–34 | Article
This paper analyzes regional linguistic variation in a corpus of letters to the editor from across the United States. However, unlike most regional dialect studies, which analyze linguistic alternation variables, this study analyzes the relative frequency of parts-of-speech using a… read more
2011 A regional analysis of contraction rate in written Standard American English International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 16:4, pp. 514–546 | Article
The goal of this study is to determine if various measures of contraction rate are regionally patterned in written Standard American English. In order to answer this question, this study employs a corpus-based approach to data collection and a statistical approach to data analysis. Based on a… read more