Laurel Smith Stvan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laurel Smith Stvan plays a role.
Articles
2024 Viral peer advice: Health memes used as the speech act of advising in English Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices, Tereszkiewicz, Anna and Magdalena Szczyrbak (eds.), pp. 332–370 | Article
By examining a collection of health-related memes, I propose ways to categorize the illocutionary force of memes functioning as the speech act of advice. 200 English-language memes were gathered in the period 2018–2023 through Google image searches. I found the affiliative and disaffiliative… read more
2011 Review of Amiridze, Davis & Maclagan (2010): Fillers, Pauses and Placeholders Studies in Language 35:4, pp. 945–950 | Review
2007 The functional range of bare singular count nouns in English Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 171–187 | Article
One overlooked and highly polysemous English noun phrase form is the bare singular, i.e. a null determiner with a singular count noun complement. Occurring in all grammatical positions, this constituent shape is used in English for multiple functions. Examination of naturally occurring English data… read more