Samuel Bourgeois
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samuel Bourgeois is involved.
2025 On the conventionalization of impoliteness formulae: The case of Trump’s fake news insult Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
Insults are a well-recognized form of conventionalized impoliteness, yet little research explores their proliferation and conventionalization. This study analyzes Trump’s initial use of fake news as an insult during and after a 2017 press conference, followed by a diachronic examination of his… read more
2022 “Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.”: On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 197–225 | Chapter
This paper investigates the use of oh yeah in written prose found in American journalistic articles using corpus data. It demonstrates that such uses are a recent phenomenon that have risen in frequency starting at end of the 20th century. These new written functions are adapted to the written… read more
2022 Intersubjectification in constructional change Construction Grammar across Borders, Torrent, Tiago Timponi, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Chapter
This chapter addresses constructional change in a dialogical construction that is illustrated by utterances such as sarcastic much?, which typically serve the purpose of an interactional challenge. Drawing on web-based corpus data, we argue that this construction is currently undergoing a process… read more
2021 “Ok, qui d’autre na, nobody on the line right now?”: A Diasystematic Construction Grammar approach to discourse markers in bilingual Cajun speech Constructions in Contact 2: Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition, Boas, Hans C. and Steffen Höder (eds.), pp. 55–80 | Chapter
Discourse markers (DMs) in bilingual speech have received much attention in language contact studies because their semantic and syntactic detachability make them easy targets for being used bilingually. Though past studies on multilingual DM usage have provided rich insights, open questions… read more
2020 Intersubjectification in constructional change: From confrontation to solidarity in the sarcastic much? construction Construction Grammar across Borders, Torrent, Tiago Timponi, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), pp. 96–120 | Article
This paper addresses constructional change in a dialogical construction that is illustrated by utterances such as sarcastic much?, which typically serve the purpose of an interactional challenge. Drawing on web-based corpus data, we argue that this construction is currently undergoing a process… read more