Tobias-Alexander Herrmann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tobias-Alexander Herrmann is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 9. The multimodal turn in corpus building: Lessons from language documentation and sign language corpora The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 210–238 | Chapter
This chapter argues for a decisive shift in corpus-building practices toward a Multimodal Turn. For decades, smaller-scale spoken and signed languages were less available for linguistic corpus research due to the scarcity of corpora, but the situation has changed: language documentation now… read more
2026 Chapter 7. Science in public: The representation of language documentation in science communication The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 149–179 | Chapter
How do public media represent language documentation? We offer a first pilot study informed by the Public Understanding of Science framework and recent media history. We employ a mixed-methods approach on a corpus of selected media coverage, using Topic Modelling to identify and quantify… read more