University of Birmingham
List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with University of Birmingham plays a role.
Subjects Applied linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Language and Covid-19: Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:4 (2020)
Edited by Michaela Mahlberg & Gavin Brookes
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 26:4] 2021. | special issueSubjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Translation and LGBT+/queer activism: Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:2 (2021)
Edited by Michela Baldo, Jonathan Evans & Ting Guo
[Translation and Interpreting Studies: The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, 16:2] 2021. | special issueSubjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives
Edited by John Barnden & Andrew Gargett
[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] 2020. | edited volumeSubjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception, and metaphor
Edited by Bodo Winter
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 20] 2019. | monographSubjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Constructions in Applied Linguistics: Special issue of International Journals of Corpus Linguistics 24:3 (2019)
Edited by Susan Hunston & Florent Perek
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 24:3] 2019. | special issueSubjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Corpora, Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Susan Hunston
Edited by Nicholas Groom, Maggie Charles & Suganthi John
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 73] 2015. xvi, 310 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics
Automatic Treatment and Analysis of Learner Corpus Data
Edited by Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Nicolas Ballier & Paul Thompson
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 59] 2013. vi, 314 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Applied linguistics | Computational & corpus linguistics | Corpus linguistics | Language teaching | Multilingualism
Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Vander Viana, Sonia Zyngier & Geoff Barnbrook
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 48] 2011. xvi, 256 pp. | course bookSubjects Corpus linguistics
Applied Cognitive Linguistics in Second Language Learning and Teaching: AILA Review, Volume 23
Edited by Jeannette Littlemore & Constanze Juchem-Grundmann
[AILA Review, 23] 2010. | yearbookSubjects Applied linguistics | Cognition and language
Words, Grammar, Text: Revisiting the work of John Sinclair
Edited by Rosamund Moon
[Benjamins Current Topics, 18] 2009. viii, 124 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Corpus linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A corpus stylistic approach
Michael Toolan
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 6] 2008. xi, 212 pp. | course bookSubjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Text Corpora and Multilingual Lexicography
Edited by Wolfgang Teubert
[Benjamins Current Topics, 8] 2007. x, 162 pp. | edited volumeSubjects Lexicography | TerminologyCorpus linguistics | Multilingualism
Words, grammar, text: revisiting the work of John Sinclair: Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:2 (2007)
Edited by Rosamund Moon
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 12:2] 2007. | special issueSubjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World
Adrian Blackledge
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 15] 2005. x, 252 pp. | course bookSubjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Defining Language: A local grammar of definition sentences
Geoff Barnbrook
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 11] 2002. xvi, 281 pp. | monographSubjects Lexicography | TerminologyCorpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics
2024 Ruled by construal?: Framing article choice in English*
Keywords articles | construal | survey data | reference
2024 The dimensions of relatability for Instagram lifestyle
influencers: A linguistic approach
In: Affect, hate and relationality in the discourse of, with and about
influencers[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] p. 78
Keywords Instagram | lifestyle influencers | relatability | corpus linguistics
2023 Can the subaltern be heard?: Translating Mariama Bâ’s francophone novel
Une si longue lettre into Russian
Keywords subaltern | Soviet | Spivak | feminist translation | Russian | francophone African
2023 Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages
In: Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] pp. 131–161
Keywords bodily visual practices | gesture | social distance | power | Catalan | Korean | multimodality
2023 Literal or metaphorical? Conventional or creative?: Contested metaphoricity in intense emotional experiences
Keywords metaphor | metaphor identification | metaphoricity | emotion
2023 Semantic distance predicts metaphoricity and creativity judgments in synesthetic metaphors
Keywords metaphor identification | norms | ratings | synesthetic metaphor | perception | perceptual metaphor | cosine similarity
2023 The formation of translation collectivities in Italian queer feminist activist scenarios: The case of Onna Pas
Keywords transfeminist activist translation | affective performativity and translation | lesbian feminist translation
2022 What drives emotion and physiological arousal in adverts?: The critical role of figurative operations
Keywords metaphor | metonymy | hyperbole | figurative operations | humor | advertising | emotion | marketing videos | electrodermal activity | physiological arousal
2023 Gestures are modulated by social context: A study of multimodal politeness across two cultures
Keywords iconicity | perspective | pragmatics | social deixis | audience design | social distance
2022 Metaphorical conceptualizations of cancer treatment in English and Chinese languages
Keywords cross-cultural variation | intra-cultural variation | metaphor | cultural keywords | conceptualization of medical phenomena
2022 Metonymy, reflexive hyperbole and broadly reflexive relationships
Keywords metonymy | hyperbole | reflexivity in relationships
2022 You don’t get to see that every day: On the development of permissive get
Keywords grammaticalization | construction grammar | modal | permissive | inchoative | distributional semantics
2022 Interpreting reduplicated numerals in Old Ibero-Romance: A syntactic account
In: Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 360] pp. 177–192
Keywords distributivity | reduplicated numerals | applicatives | Old Ibero-Romance
2021 A mural that helped to bring down Jeremy Corbyn: How hegemonic discourse silences dialogue
Keywords meaning | dialogue | media | antisemitism | Corbyn | hegemonic discourse
2022 The representation of mothers and the gendered social structure of nineteenth-century children’s
literature
Keywords corpus stylistics | gender | norms | general nouns | Victorian literature
2021 Worlds of evidence: Visualising patterns in witness statements in the aftermath of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster
Keywords Hillsborough | modality | text world theory | VUE
2021 Metaphor and irony: Messy when mixed
In: Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] pp. 139–174
Keywords irony | metaphor | mixtures of figures of speech | serial mixing | parallel mixing | contrast in figures of speech | meaning composition | cognitive processing | attitudes in irony | affective processing
2021 Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration
In: Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] pp. 307–338
Keywords psycholinguistics | experimental methods | reaction times | cross-modal priming | eye-tracking | visual world paradigm | figurative language | idioms | metaphors | metonymy
2021 Functionally-defined recurrent multi-word units in English-to-Polish translation: A corpus-based study
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 35:1 pp. 1–29 | article
Keywords corpus-based study | translation studies | parallel corpora | comparable corpora | metadiscursive multi-word items | translation patterns | English-to-Polish translation | estudio basado en corpus | estudios de traducción | corpus paralelos | corpus comparables | unidades multipalabra | patrones traductológicos | traducción inglés-polaco
2021 Reconceptualising the interpreter’s role: A perspective from social identity theories
Keywords social identity | optimal distinctiveness | face | interpreter’s role | identité sociale | théorie de distinction optimale | visage | rôle de l’interprète
2021 Relative entropy effects on the processing of spoken Romanian verbs
Keywords relative entropy | inflectional paradigm | inflectional class | spoken word recognition | auditory lexical decision
2022 The development of morpho-syntactic productivity in Italian-speaking children
Keywords first language acquisition | usage-based models | Italian | morphology | syntax
2020
The production of time-related metaphors by people who have
experienced pregnancy loss
In: Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] pp. 389–418
Keywords metaphor | time | emotion | grief | bereavement | pregnancy loss
2020 Metaphor thoughtfully
In: Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] pp. 13–44
Keywords metaphorical mappings | metaphor in thought | bidirectionality | mental representation | fictionalism
2020 Montaigne, the essay and the end of life
In: Discourses on the Edges of Life[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature: Studies, Editions and Translations, 26] pp. 125–146
Keywords essay | reflection | scepticism | perspective | death
2020 Fiction – one register or two?: Speech and narration in novels
Keywords register variation | fictional speech | narration | 19th-century fiction | Charles Dickens
2020 Metaphors in communication about pregnancy loss
Keywords metaphor | pregnancy loss | bereavement | emotion | the body
2020 The translator: Literary or performance artist?
Keywords literary translation | style | performance | restored behavior | Margaret Jull Costa | Peter Bush
2020 Valency coercion in Italian: An exploratory study*
Keywords coercion | argument structure constructions | Italian | acceptability ratings | age grading
2020 Dialect syntax in Construction Grammar: Theoretical benefits of a constructionist approach to double modals in English
Keywords Construction Grammar | dialectology | double modals | syntactic variation | American English
2020 Subcategorization frame identification for learner English
Keywords subcategorization | verb-argument construction | SCF identification | second language acquisition | natural language processing
2020 Threshold-switching: Paratextual functions of scribal colophons in Old and Middle English manuscripts
In: The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] p. 91
Keywords colophon | scribe | medieval | manuscript | paratext
2019 Chronotopic (non)modernity in translocal mobile messaging among Chinese migrants in the UK
Keywords chronotope | ethnography | migration | mobile communication | modernity
2020 Reader expertise and the literary significance of small-scale textual
features in prose fiction
Keywords eye-tracking | prose-fiction | reader expertise | small-scale textual features | punctuation
2019 Towards an English Constructicon using patterns and frames
Keywords constructicon | COBUILD | FrameNet | construction grammar | lexicogrammar
2019 Self-denigration and the mixed messages of ‘ugly’ selfies in Instagram
Keywords self-denigration | self-deprecation | self-mockery | selfies | humour | Instagram | ugly selfies
2019 Construction Grammar and the corpus-based analysis of discourses: The case of the WAY IN WHICH construction
Keywords Construction Grammar | discourse analysis | discourses | phraseology
2019 Patterns, constructions, and applied linguistics
Keywords Construction Grammar | pattern grammar | constructicon
2018 The interpretation of metonymy by Japanese learners of English
In: Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions and typology[Benjamins Current Topics, 99] pp. 51–71
Keywords intercultural communication | language learning | metonymy | rhetorical functions
2019 Contributions of semantic richness to the processing of idioms
Keywords semantic richness | idioms | cross-modal priming
2018 Metaphor-enriched social cognition and spatial bias in the
courtroom
Keywords social distance | spatial metaphor | spatial bias | courtroom layout
2018 “A pretty village is a welcome sight”: A contrastive study of the promotion of physical space in official tourism websites
Keywords language of tourism | Greek | corpus triangulation | adjectives | translation
2018 From personal narrative to global call for action: The case of Yezidi survivor Nadia Murad
Keywords personal narratives | narrator | mediation | discourse | genre | mode | language | translation | Yezidis | Islamic State (IS)
2018 Applying metaphor analysis to academic literacy research: A critical review over 30 years
Keywords metaphor analysis | academic literacy research | literacy skills | academic literacy education | conceptualisations of teaching | conceptualisations of learning
2018 Dialogue and what it means for discourse
Keywords discursive reality | linguistic sign | dialogue | discourse
2017 Key words and translated cohesion in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and one of its Italian
translations
Keywords cohesive networks | key words | corpus stylistics | literary translation | Lovecraft
2017 A distributional semantic approach to the periodization of change in the productivity of constructions
Keywords constructions | diachrony | distributional semantics | periodization | productivity
2017 Deaf and hearing children’s picture naming: Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture
Keywords gesture | sign language | language development | deaf
2017 Multi-Dimensional Analysis, text constellations, and interdisciplinary discourse
Keywords Multi-Dimensional Analysis | interdisciplinary discourse | text constellations
2018 Traces of old and new center-periphery dynamics in language-in-education policy and practice: Insights from a linguistic ethnographic study in Timor-Leste
Keywords center-periphery dynamics | language ideologies | language policy | multilingual
2017 Which words are most iconic?: Iconicity in English sensory words
Keywords sound symbolism | onomatopoeia | perception | sound | touch
2016 Chapter 13. Point and CLiC: Teaching literature with corpus stylistic tools
In: Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24] pp. 253–270
Keywords characterization | clusters | concordances | corpus stylistics | corpus tools | mind-modelling | suspensions
2017 Communicating flexibly with metaphor: A complex of strengthening, elaboration, replacement, compounding and unrealism
Keywords metaphor in discourse | metaphor understanding | metaphor strengthening | metaphor extension and elaboration | metaphor compounding and mixing
2016 Producing and perceiving gestures conveying height or shape
Keywords representational gestures | precision grip | gesture perception | hand shape | iconicity
2016 The interpretation of metonymy by Japanese learners of English
Keywords metonymy | language learning | rhetorical functions | intercultural communication
2017 Do relative positions and proxemics affect the engagement in a Human-Robot collaborative scenario?
Keywords human-robot interaction | sensors | proxemics | position | robot tutor | engagement
2016 Russia as the other: Corpus investigation of Olympic host construction in The New York Times
Keywords Russia | discursive othering | Olympics | West and Rest | corpus | binary opposition
2016 Understanding translation as a site of language contact: The potential of the Code-Copying Framework as a descriptive mechanism in translation studies
Keywords language change | corpus-based translation studies | passive voice | English-Greek | popular science | reporting verbs
2015 Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels
Keywords body language presentation | Dickens | reporting verbs | suspended quotation | suspension annotation
2015 The West Midlands
Keywords lexical set realisations | location of Birmingham and the Black Country | variation across class, time and ethnic group
2016 Processing punctuation and word changes in different editions of prose fiction
Keywords reading | text-editing | prose fiction | textual variants | eye-tracking | punctuation
2015 Shell-nounhood in academic discourse: A critical state-of-the-art review
Keywords shell-nounhood | abstract nouns | encapsulation | academic discourse | nominal cohesion
2016 The Zhuangzi, hermeneutics and (philological) corpus linguistics
Keywords Zhuangzi | meaning | interpretation | hermeneutics | philology
2015 ‘They look into our lips’: Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse
Keywords citizenship | citizenship ceremony | authoritative discourse; | ideological becoming; Bakhtin
2014 Motivating language teachers: Inspiring vision
In: Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practice[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 40] pp. 71–89
Keywords language teacher cognition | possible selves | teacher vision
2014 Cats and categories — reply to Teubert
Keywords realism | ethology | discursive reductionism | taxonomies | semiotics
2013 Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels
Keywords suspended quotation | reporting verbs | body language presentation | suspension annotation | Dickens
2011 Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults
Keywords gesture | integration | aging
2011 Is pragmatics the answer to our quest for meaning?: A review of Mira Ariel’s new book Defining Pragmatics
Keywords pragmatics | meaning | Grice | inferences | grammar | sentence | code | discourse
2010 Gesture highlights perceptually present information for speakers
Keywords conservation | gesture | perceptual-motor information | gesture prohibition
2010 Systemic linguistic analysis of samples from economic speeches by Barack Obama and John McCain
Keywords Halliday | systemic functional grammar | experiential | interpersonal | textual | meaning | ideology | McCain | 2008 presidential election | Obama
2009 Conventionalized as -similes in English: A problem case
Keywords methodology | simile | phraseology | corpora | figurative language | frequency | idiomaticity | lexicon | lexicalization
2008 Starting with the small words: Patterns, lexis and semantic sequences
Keywords pattern grammar | epistemology | modal meaning | semantic sequence
2007 Notes on the ofness of of — Sinclair and grammar
Keywords lexico-grammar | corpus-based grammatical method | noun phrase structure | functions of of
2007 Sinclair, lexicography, and the Cobuild Project: The application of theory
Keywords lexico-grammar | lexicography | Cobuild Project | corpus evidence | meaning | definitions
2007 Sinclair, pattern grammar and the question of hatred
Keywords grammar | valency | pattern grammar | phraseology | meaning
2007 Through children’s eyes?: Corpus evidence of the features of children’s literature
Keywords discourse analysis | children’s literature | POSgrams | frequency information | semantic tagging
2007 Trust and text, text as trust
Keywords prospection | encapsualation | temporality | textual progression
2007 Semantic prosody revisited
Keywords semantic prosody | unit of meaning | attitudinal language | intertextuality
2007 Language(s) in the global news: Translation, audience design and discourse (mis)representation
Keywords discourse | globalization | media | news | representation | translation
2004 The automatic recognition of verb patterns: A feasibility study
Keywords syntax | parsing | pattern grammar | pattern recognition
2003 Automatic extraction of meaningful units from corpora: A corpus-driven approach using the word stroke
Keywords Swedish | collocations | upward and downward collocate statistics | computational linguistics | translation | parallel texts | units of meaning | English | retrieval methods
2008 Colligation, lexis, pattern, and text
In: Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey pp. 13–33
2002 Idiom variation in Italian and English: Two corpus-based studies
Keywords Idioms | Variability | English/Italian
How register-specific is probabilistic grammatical knowledge?: A programmatic sketch and a case study on the dative alternation with give
Keywords register | variationist analysis | usage-based approach | probabilistic grammar | dative alternation | grammatical choice-making | two-fold methodology | formality
What makes an advert go viral?: The role of figurative operations in the success of Internet videos
In: Performing metaphoric creativity across modes and contexts[Figurative Thought and Language, 7] pp. 119–152
Keywords metaphor | metonymy | advertising | creativity | hyperbole | understatement | irony