Stefan Diemer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stefan Diemer plays a role.
2020 Chapter 9. “Tell me about food and I tell you who you are”: Expert identity in intercultural food discourse via
Skype Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 167–188 | Chapter
The paper presents the construction of two types of expert
identity in conversations about food: cultural expertise and
culinary expertise. The study is based on data from a corpus of
informal dyadic conversations between international speakers of
English as a Lingua Franca via Skype. Both cultural… read more
2018 “Okay … so … nice to meet you? {smiles}”: Openings in ELF Skype conversations The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 171–197 | Chapter
The chapter examines discourse strategies used in conversation openings in CASE, the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (2018), containing English as a Lingua Franca conversations via Skype. Although there are similarities to telephone conversation openings, openings in CASE show differences in… read more
2018 "It's always different when you look something from the inside": Linguistic innovation in a corpus of ELF Skype conversations Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 193–220 | Article
The article discusses linguistic creativity in informal Skype conversations between university students from eight different European countries. The basis for the study is the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE), a corpus of Skype conversations in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context.… read more
2016 “It’s always different when you look something from the inside”: Linguistic innovation in a corpus of ELF Skype conversations Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes, Deshors, Sandra C., Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.), pp. 323–350 | Article
The article discusses linguistic creativity in informal Skype conversations between university students from eight different European countries. The basis for the study is the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE), a corpus of Skype conversations in an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) context.… read more
2016 Compiling computer-mediated spoken language corpora: Key issues and recommendations Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora, Kirk, John M. and Gisle Andersen (eds.), pp. 348–371 | Article
This paper discusses key issues in the compilation of spoken language corpora in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) environment, using data from the Corpus of Academic Spoken English (CASE), a corpus of Skype conversations currently being compiled at Saarland University, Germany, in… read more
2014 What happened to the English prefix, and could it stage a comeback? Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns, Davidse, Kristin, Caroline Gentens, Lobke Ghesquière and Lieven Vandelanotte (eds.), pp. 35–55 | Article
This paper revisits the historical shift in English verb-particle combinations from prefixed to prepositional and adverbial forms based on qualitative and quantitative examples from the Helsinki and Wycliffe corpora collected during a study on the history of verb-particle combinations (Diemer 2008). read more
2013 The return of the prefix? New verb-particle combinations in blogs Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, Hasselgård, Hilde, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.), pp. 223–244 | Article
The paper explores how verb-particle combinations have changed with the increased use of online real-time short communication forms. Following up on earlier research (Diemer 2008b & 2009), the study discusses examples of new prefix verbs from a web-based corpus of blogs, providing evidence that the… read more
2013 Recipes and food discourse in English – a historical menu Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 139–156 | Article
The article provides a diachronic overview of the discourse of food on the basis of various examples of recipes and more general food related texts, from Old English to the late 20th century. After comparing lexis, syntax and discourse features, three main diachronic tendencies can be observed:… read more
2013 When making pie, all ingredients must be chilled. Including you: Lexical, syntactic and interactive features in online discourse – a synchronic study of food blogs Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 53–82 | Article
The present study describes food blogs as a genre of computer-mediated communication (CMC). The combined approach of corpus linguistic and pragmatic methods reveals the characteristics of food blogs as a hybrid genre that mixes elements from various other discourse types. Lexical and syntactic… read more
2012 Spelling variation in Middle English manuscripts: The case for an integrated corpus approach Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 31–46 | Article
This paper illustrates spelling variation in Middle English (ME) manuscripts and proposes the integration of manuscript images and spelling tags into corpora. Examples come from the five-million-word corpus of ME texts produced by the English reformer John Wycliffe and his followers (Wycliffe… read more