Lesley-Ann Kern
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lesley-Ann Kern is involved.
Articles
2025 Solidarity in giving: Tracing shifts in discourse on organ donation through the lens of qualitative and quantitative methods The Quality of Quantity, the Quantity of Quality, Schoonjans, Steven (ed.), pp. 131–166 | Article
Quantitative approaches are increasingly applied in traditionally qualitative linguistic subdisciplines, such as discourse analysis in German studies. Building on Angermüller’s definition of German discourse analysis, which integrates hermeneutics, pragmatics, and structuralism, and aligning… read more
2022 The medium is not the message: Individual level register variation in blogs vs. tweets Register and social media, Clarke, Isobelle and Jack Grieve (eds.), pp. 171–201 | Article
Linguistic expressions in social media vary along many axes, including author style, the specific medium and its affordances, and others. In this paper, we argue that different registers must be distinguished within social media and that register should be included as an important factor… read more