Mary Lois Marckworth
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary Lois Marckworth plays a role.
Articles
1980 4. Preliminaries to the experimental investigation of style in language. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 65–80 | Article
This paper attempts to specify the notion of language style in a manner that will allow experimental investigation of it as a functional part of the communication process. Such specification is approached through the discussion of four questions: (1) What sort of evidence do we have that style is a… read more
1980 8. A discriminant function analysis of co-variation of a number of syntactic devices in five prose genres. Experimental Linguistics: Integration of theories and applications, Prideaux, Gary D., Bruce L. Derwing and Will Baker (eds.), pp. 231–246 | Article
This paper approaches the question of whether the styles of different prose genres (here referring to classifications such as fiction, newspaper reportage, learned journals, etc.) are partially characterized by differences in the co-variation of a number of common syntactic structures.Thirty-six… read more