Robert J. Sigley
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert J. Sigley is involved.
Articles
2009 From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson: Exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond, Peters, Pam, Peter Collins and Adam Smith (eds.), pp. 183–204 | Article
This paper analyzes data from written and spoken corpora of British, American, Australian and New Zealand English to track social change in patterns of gender-marking. Frequency data for the use of general terms like woman and man are compared across the different regional varieties of written… read more
1997 Text Categories and Where You Can Stick Them: A Crude Formality Index International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2:2, pp. 199–237 | Article
This paper applies principal components analysis (PCA) to solve the problem of interpreting pre-existing corpus text categories for analysis of linguistic variation. The method is illustrated by constructing an index of the complex notion "formality " from PCA of a set of high-frequency… read more