Elena Seoane
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elena Seoane is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485
Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation
Edited by Elena Seoane and Douglas Biber
As the first collective volume to focus exclusively on corpus-based approaches to register variation, this book provides an exhaustive account of the range and depth of possibilities that the domain of register variation in English has to offer. It illustrates register variation analysis in… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 103] 2021. xi, 341 pp.
World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations
Edited by Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez
This book provides a collection of articles that reflect the current state of affairs in the blossoming field of World Englishes by bringing together several innovative synchronic and diachronic approaches. It contributes to the ongoing theoretical discussion concerning the criteria that make a… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G57] 2016. viii, 285 pp.
Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
These two volumes offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76-77] 2008. 742 pp.
Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives
Edited by María José López-Couso and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 76] 2008. x, 355 pp.
Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited by Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso
This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 77] 2008. x, 367 pp.
Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000: Volume 1. English Historical Syntax and Morphology; Volume 2. Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Teresa Fanego, María José López-Couso, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
These volumes offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela.From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the twelve papers in Volume 1 were carefully selected… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 223-224] 2002. x, 306 pp. & x, 310 pp.
Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2
Edited by Teresa Fanego, Belén Méndez-Naya and Elena Seoane
This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 224] 2002. ix, 301 pp.
2024 A diachronic corpus-pragmatic approach to democratization: The evolution of newspaper editorials, 1860–1979 Corpus-Pragmatic Studies of Democratization in Public Discourses: New perspectives, methods and materials, Hiltunen, Turo, Turo Vartiainen and Jenni Räikkönen (eds.), pp. 215–244 | Article
Democratization is often invoked as an explanatory factor for diachronic linguistic developments. We believe that at the root of democratization often lies the pragmatic negotiation of power relations, whereby a more democratic use of language can reduce the distance between addresser and… read more
2021 Chapter 1. A corpus-based approach to register variation Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2020 Elaboration, compression and explicitness across sub-registers of popular and academic writing in Hong Kong English Register Studies 2:2, pp. 275–305 | Article
In this study we examine elaboration, compression and explicitness in academic and popular writing in an Outer Circle variety of English, that of Hong-Kong, as represented in the International Corpus of English corpus. As Biber and Gray (2016) show, contemporary academic discourse is… read more
2016 Acknowledgments World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, Seoane, Elena and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Acknowledgments
2016 Authorial presence in late Modern English philosophical writing: Evidence from CEPhiT 'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned': Late Modern English texts on philosophy, Moskowich, Isabel, Gonzalo Camiña, Inés Lareo and Begoña Crespo (eds.), pp. 123–143 | Article
2016 World Englishes Today World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, Seoane, Elena and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2013 On the conventionalisation and loss of pragmatic function of the passive in Late Modern English scientific discourse Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:1, pp. 70–99 | Article
This paper seeks to explain the radical decrease in the use of the passive voice in Present-day English scientific discourse. A number of different linguistic factors having been discounted in previous research, it is hypothesised here that passives are being omitted for two reasons. Firstly, they… read more
2013 The expression of the perfect in East and South-East Asian Englishes English World-Wide 34:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
This paper looks at variation in the expression of perfect meaning in Asian Englishes (Hong Kong, India, Singapore and the Philippines) as represented in the spoken component of the International Corpus of English. Findings confirm the existence of levelling between the present perfect and simple… read more
2011 Review of Gotti, Dossena & Dury (2008): English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume I: Syntax and Morphology & Dury, Gotti & Dossena (2008): English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume II: Lexical and Semantic Change & Dossena, Gotti & Dury (2008): English Historical Linguistics 2006. Volume III: Geo-Historical Variation in English Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 283–293 | Review
2008 Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
2008 Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalization Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
