Shelley Staples
List of John Benjamins publications for which Shelley Staples plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2542-9477 | E-ISSN 2542-9485
Title
The Discourse of Nurse-Patient Interactions: Contrasting the communicative styles of U.S. and international nurses
Shelley Staples
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 72] 2015. xiv, 263 pp.
Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 Linguistic variation in two written academic sub-registers: A multi-dimensional analysis Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study aims to compare abstracts written by graduate students and internationally-published authors using Biber’s (1988) Multi-Dimensional (MD) model. To this end, two corpora of abstracts (1800 texts each) from research articles (RA) published in top international Applied Linguistics… read more
2024 Comparing theory-based models of grammatical complexity in student writing International Journal of Learner Corpus Research: Online-First Articles | Article
The present study tests the empirical adequacy of competing models of grammatical complexity in university student writing, based on analysis of disciplinary texts from L1-English and L2-English students. The results show that grammatical complexity in student writing must be treated as a… read more
2024 Building language and genre awareness through learner corpus data in a second language writing course Learner Corpus Research for Pedagogical Purposes, Götz, Sandra and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 146–182 | Article
This study is part of a larger project investigating the impact of corpus-based teaching in a series of second language (L2) genre-based writing courses. In this paper, we focus on activities that were implemented in one L2 writing course between first and final drafts of two major assignments… read more
2022 A multilingual learner corpus for less commonly taught languages International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:2, pp. 261–282 | Article
This article provides a detailed account of the framework, pedagogical and research applications of the Multilingual Academic Corpus of Assignments – Writing and Speech (MACAWS). MACAWS is a monitor learner corpus of written and oral assignments produced by foreign language learners in the… read more
2022 Integrating fluency and prosody into multidimensional analysis: Exploring the multidimensional nature of spoken learner language International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:2, pp. 190–236 | Article
Investigation of the characteristics of spoken learner language has increased in recent years but has been primarily limited to the investigation of one linguistic level (e.g., lexico-grammar), which gives a limited picture of learners’ overall linguistic competence (e.g., Skarnitzl & Rumlová,… read more
2021 Automated annotation of learner English: An evaluation of software tools Natural language processing for learner corpus research, Kyle, Kristopher (ed.), pp. 17–52 | Article
This paper explores the use of natural language processing (NLP) tools and their utility for learner language analyses through a comparison of automatic linguistic annotation against a gold standard produced by humans. While there are a number of automated annotation tools for English currently… read more
2020 Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:1, pp. 38–71 | Article
The present paper employs a corpus-based approach to track the longitudinal language development of university students. Compared to many other longitudinal studies, the present study tracks development over a relatively long period of time (two years) for a relatively large group of students… read more
2020 Understanding the multi-dimensional nature of informational language in health care interactions Register Studies 2:2, pp. 241–274 | Article
Much of the corpus-based research on medical discourse has focused on “involved” language (e.g., 1st person pronouns, discourse markers) and its importance in creating patient rapport (Adolphs, Brown, Carter, Crawford, & Sahota, 2004; Skelton & Hobbes, 1999; Staples, 2016). However, in the… read more
2018 Building a local learner corpus: Construction of a first-year ESL writing corpus for research, teaching, mentoring, and collaboration International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4:1, pp. 112–127 | Article
This paper describes the construction process involved in creating a robust local learner corpus of texts produced by international students in a first-year writing course at a large public, mid-western university in the U.S. We show how involving faculty members and graduate students of our… read more
2014 Exploring the prosody of stance: Variation in the realization of stance adverbials Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso and Heliana Mello (eds.), pp. 271–294 | Article
Over the last three decades, several studies have applied corpus-analytical techniques to investigate the ways in which ‘stance’ is expressed in spoken and written discourse. Corpus research has shown that there are strong differences among registers in their reliance on the different types of… read more
