Beth Malory

List of John Benjamins publications in which Beth Malory is involved.

Articles

Malory, Beth 2024 Pinpointing prescriptive impact: Using change point analysis for the study of prescriptivism at the idiolectal level International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:2, pp. 131–154 | Article

This paper presents a single-author case study which demonstrates that the statistical modelling technique change point analysis (CPA) can provide compelling evidence of prescriptive impact at an idiolectal level. It has been hypothesized that Late Modern English review periodicals consistently… read more

Archer, Dawn and Beth Malory 2017 Tracing facework over time using semi-automated methods International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22:1, pp. 27–56 | Article

Impolite behaviour tends to attract more evaluative comment than other facework, making it easier to investigate synchronically and diachronically. A reliance on metapragmatic commentary is not optimum for UK parliamentary studies, however, as MPs cannot use “insulting or rude language” that… read more