David Kaufer
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Kaufer plays a role.
2023 The DocuScope project: History, theory and future directions Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope, Brown, David West and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel (eds.), pp. 2–24 | Chapter
This chapter overviews the history of the DocuScope project. In its inception, we sought a production theory underlying rhetorical composition and decision-making. Our pursuit of a theory led to the development of large-scale dictionaries of language patterns we have curated for over two decades. read more
2023 Strategic language as a family
Since antiquity, the study of strategy has aspired to a military science predicting outcomes. An alternative, rooted in classical rhetoric, focused on language strategically deployed to increase targeted outcomes. That said, the intersection of strategy and language remains understudied. We… read more
2017 A rhetorical approach to translation: The Chinese “Report on the Work of the Government” as a case study Translation Spaces 6:2, pp. 270–290 | Article
Over the past three decades, the Chinese government has repeatedly called for the effective transmission of its policies to the West through translation. Yet the effectiveness of translation and its evaluation has remained a ticklish issue, particularly for texts with a political agenda.… read more
2013 Chapter 10. DocuScope for genre analysis: Potential for assessing pragmatic functions in second language writing Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching, Taguchi, Naoko and Julie M. Sykes (eds.), pp. 235–259 | Article
This chapter introduces DocuScope, a text-visualization and analysis software tool. This tool was not originally developed to teach or assess pragmatics; however, it carries a great deal of potential for assessing second language (L2) learners’ ability to produce texts in a variety of genres,… read more
2012 The “image bite,” political language, and the public/private divide: NBC News coverage of Hillary Clinton from scorned wife to Senate candidate Journal of Language and Politics 11:3, pp. 336–356 | Article
Voice-overs with muted images, often known as the “image bite,” have become an increasingly used but understudied format of political language by the television news media. Because the media can use images to fit many contexts and purposes of commentary, the media images are susceptible to… read more
2008 Designing Clinical Experiences with Words: Three Layers of Analysis in Clinical Case Studies Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction, Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard (eds.), pp. 149–177 | Article