Tülay Dixon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tülay Dixon is involved.
2025 The relative influence of language backgrounds, communicative text types, and disciplines in undergraduate student writing Cumulative Knowledge Building in Learner Corpus Research, Larsson, Tove and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 178–216 | Article
Previous studies of undergraduate writing investigated linguistic variation across (i) assignment types, (ii) disciplines, and (iii) language backgrounds. The combined findings of these studies allowed us to formulate eight hypotheses as to how undergraduate writing is likely to vary across… read more
2025 Adverb placement in L1 and L2 spoken production: The effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factors International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 30:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
Most existing research on adverb placement has focused exclusively on writing. This is unfortunate, given that the spoken mode offers limited opportunity for pre-planning and post-editing and may thus more readily reveal patterns of L1 transfer. Further, previous studies rarely consider the… read more
2024 A simple methodology for identifying speech act tendencies: A case study of e-mail refusals Applied Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 60–85 | Article
Speech act studies often compare two or more groups of speakers by analyzing how often each group uses a given strategy to realize a speech act. Since the goal of such studies is to compare groups, they often do not discuss the variation that exists within the groups and, by extension, what can… 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