Niall Curry
List of John Benjamins publications in which Niall Curry is involved.
2025 Exploring public-oriented research communication: A register perspective Register and Professional Discourse, Staples, Shelley and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 99–129 | Article
Garnering public engagement with academic research in a timely and accessible manner has become a central concern in contemporary academia. This centrality has given rise to a growing interest in the social, communicative, and registral features of public-oriented academic texts, such as… read more
2023 Question illocutionary force indicating devices in academic writing: A corpus-pragmatic and contrastive approach to identifying and analysing direct and indirect questions in English, French, and Spanish International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 28:1, pp. 91–119 | Article
Corpus research on questions as reader engagement markers in academic writing typically focuses on direct questions. Such questions are signalled by question marks and are relatively easily searchable in a corpus. However, indirect questions can be more challenging to identify, as they can be… read more
2021 Stance nouns in COVID-19 related blog posts: A contrastive analysis of blog posts published in The Conversation in Spain and the UK Language and Covid-19, Mahlberg, Michaela and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 469–497 | Article
Research dissemination through academic blogs creates opportunities for writers to reach wider audiences. With COVID-19, public dissemination of research impacts daily practices, and national and international policies, and in countries like the UK and Spain, The Conversation publishes… read more