David Wright
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Wright is involved.
Articles
2020 From burden to threat: A diachronic study of language ideology and migrant representation in the British press Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 113–140 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the ways in which non-native English speakers living in Britain are represented in the British press, and in particular on how these representations have changed between 2005 and 2017. Using a corpus-assisted approach to Critical Discourse Analysis, collocation patterns… read more
2017 Using word n-grams to identify authors and idiolects: A corpus approach to a forensic linguistic problem International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:2, pp. 212–241 | Article
Forensic authorship attribution is concerned with identifying the writers of anonymous criminal documents. Over the last twenty years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of statistical procedures using a number of different linguistic features to measure similarity between texts.… read more
Corpus perspectives on legal discourse: Introduction to the Special Issue International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Introduction
This editorial introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics on corpus perspectives on legal discourse. It first situates corpus-based research within the broader empirical tradition of language and law studies, tracing the emergence of a ‘corpus turn’ from the… read more