Jesse Egbert
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jesse Egbert is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485
Title
Register in L1 and L2 Language Development
Edited by Bethany Gray and Jesse Egbert
Special issue of Register Studies 3:2 (2021) v, 122 pp.
2025 Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types Reproducibility, Replicability, and Robustness in Corpus Linguistics, Schweinberger, Martin and Michael Haugh (eds.), pp. 150–170 | Article
Rank-ordered lists of word types are ubiquitous in corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. Word lists are commonly developed as aids for language teaching and learning, vocabulary testing, and language description. Yet, these lists are often produced and used without evaluation of their… read more
2025 A register approach to specialized word list creation: Using keywords to supplement the Contracts Word List Register and Professional Discourse, Staples, Shelley and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 11–41 | Article
Specialized word lists (SWLs) can help language learners acquire domain-specific vocabulary; however, there are few such lists for legal domains despite the growing demand for resources in this area. Additionally, in list design and construction, register is rarely considered a meaningful… read more
2023 What is a register? Accounting for linguistic and situational variation within – and outside of – textual varieties Register Studies 5:1, pp. 1–22 | Editorial
Empirical studies of register variation have established the existence of functional correspondence between situation/context and language use. However, previous conceptualizations of register cannot adequately account for empirical findings which have revealed (i) situational and linguistic… read more
2023 Examining novice writers’ perceptions of formality Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes 4:1, pp. 29–55 | Article
Adherence to standards pertaining to formality remains important for novice academic writers wishing to write within the scientific community. However, due to its elusive nature, it may not be clear what “formal” really means. This study investigates what affects novice writers’ perceptions of… read more
2021 Chapter 2. Extending text-linguistic studies of register variation to a continuous situational space: Case studies from the web and natural conversation Corpus-based Approaches to Register Variation, Seoane, Elena and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 19–50 | Chapter
In text-linguistic register research, distributions of linguistic features across registers are theorized as having a functional relationship to the situational context. A strength of this approach is its focus on frequencies of linguistic features across texts/registers. Situational variables,… read more
2021 Register in L1 and L2 language development: Editorial Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 177–179 | Editorial
2020 Chapter 19. Orality on the searchable web: A comparison of involved web registers and face-to-face conversation Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In honor of Merja Kytö, Jonsson, Ewa and Tove Larsson (eds.), pp. 317–336 | Chapter
As Culpeper and Kytö (2010) discuss, one challenge of historical linguistics is the extent to which written texts represent the linguistic characteristics of speech. Synchronic linguists face similar challenges, leading to the practice of using a web corpus to represent the spectrum of… read more
2020 Exploring the longitudinal development of grammatical complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2-English university students International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 6:1, pp. 38–71 | Article
The present paper employs a corpus-based approach to track the longitudinal language development of university students. Compared to many other longitudinal studies, the present study tracks development over a relatively long period of time (two years) for a relatively large group of students… read more
2020 Fiction – one register or two? Speech and narration in novels Register Studies 2:1, pp. 72–101 | Article
In this paper our focus is on analyzing register variation within fiction, rather than between fiction and other registers. By working with subcorpora that separate text within and outside of quotation marks, we appromixate fictional speech and narration. This enables us to identify and compare… read more
2020 Lexical dispersion and corpus design International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:1, pp. 89–115 | Article
Lexical dispersion is typically measured across arbitrary corpus parts of equal size. In this study, we apply DA
– a new dispersion index designed for unequal-sized corpus parts – to the British National Corpus (BNC) in a series of cases studies to show that the dispersion of a word is… read more
2020 Register in Applied Linguistics Register Studies 2:2, pp. 173–175 | Editorial
2019 Editorial: Register and register variation Register Studies 1:1, pp. 1–9 | Editorial
2018 Lexis and grammar as complementary discourse systems for expressing stance and evaluation The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles and J. Lachlan Mackenzie (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Chapter
Although ‘stance’ and ‘evaluation’ are closely related theoretical constructs, stance is normally investigated through corpus-based methods focusing on the use of lexico-grammatical features, while evaluative language, being regarded as more context-dependent, has been investigated through the use… read more
2015 Publication type and discipline variation in published academic writing: Investigating statistical interaction in corpus data International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
This study uses Multi-Dimensional analysis to describe linguistic variation in a corpus of published academic writing across three publication types in two disciplines. The resulting five dimensions were labeled: “Affective synthesis versus specialized information density”, “Definition and… read more
2012 Style in nineteenth century fiction: A Multi-Dimensional analysis Scientific Study of Literature 2:2, pp. 167–198 | Article
Recent years have seen substantial advances in ‘corpus stylistics’, which is the use of corpora and computational techniques to study literary style. Corpus stylistics has produced analyses of otherwise imperceptible features of literary style. However, studies in corpus stylistics have rarely… read more