Geoffrey Williams
List of John Benjamins publications in which Geoffrey Williams is involved.
2012 Bringing data and dictionary together: Real science in real dictionaries Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and applications, Boulton, Alex, Shirley Carter-Thomas and Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet (eds.), pp. 217–238 | Article
This chapter looks at how general language dictionaries may be extended by using prototype theory to take into account specialised usage, and how a specialised pattern dictionary can be built bottom-up from a corpus. Following an analysis of the role of science in current learner’s dictionaries, a… read more
2010 Many rooms with corpora The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 400–407 | Article
2008 Review of Anderson ((2006)): The Phraseology of Administrative French: A corpus-based Study: Looking at the phraseology of administrative French. Review of Anderson, W.J. (2006). The Phraseology of Administrative French: A corpus-based Study. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:1, pp. 129–134 | Review
2008 10. The Good Lord and his works: A corpus-driven study of collocational resonance Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, Granger, Sylviane and Fanny Meunier (eds.), pp. 159–173 | Article
The idiom principle outlined by John Sinclair has shown how much language consists of reused formulae of a collocational and colligational nature. Resonance seeks to look at the usage of words and expressions that have retained strong semantic prosodies from earlier usage, prosodies of which the… read more
2002 In search of representativity in specialised corpora: Categorisation through collocation International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 7:1, pp. 43–64 | Article
In large reference corpora representativeness is attempted through carefully selected sampling and sheer size. The situation is different with special language corpora in that their very nature limits them in size. Their representativity is measured by reference to external selection criteria,… read more
1998 Collocational Networks: Interlocking Patterns of Lexis in a Corpusof Plant Biology Research Articles International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:1, pp. 151–171 | Article
Scientific sublanguages evolve in accordance with the needs of the Discourse Community (DC) with new words being coined and a gradual change in the meanings expressed through existing lexis. In so far as the central concepts relate to each other, similar relational patterns emerge in their surface… read more
1996 12. Language planning as discourse Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics, Singh, Rajendra (ed.), pp. 281–304 | Article