Peter Wingrove
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Wingrove plays a role.
Articles
2022 Narrative discourse in TED Talks English Text Construction 15:1, pp. 89–111 | Article
This article investigates the extent to which TED talks can be considered a narrative register. This study analyses ‘narrative versus non-narrative discourse’ (Biber 1988) in a corpus of TED talks (n = 2483). TED talks were found to be typically non-narrative (−2.47 mean). However, there was a… read more
2022 Multi-Dimensional Exploratory Factor Analysis of TED talks Register Studies 4:1, pp. 91–131 | Article
This article conducts Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) on a corpus of TED talks (2463 talks, across 427 topic tags) to create a new Multi-Dimensional model. The resultant model contained seven dimensions: i. ‘Spontaneous involved versus edited informational discourse’, ii. ‘Abstract… read more