Sheena Gardner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sheena Gardner is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2589-7233 | E‑ISSN 2589‑7241
2023 A trinocular view of the auxiliary verb will in COVID-19 briefings from Westminster and Holyrood Language, Context and Text 5:1, pp. 124–160 | Article
This corpus assisted investigation of the auxiliary verb will examines the various modalities and functions realised in the register of political briefings given by Scottish (Holyrood) and United Kingdom (Westminster) representatives throughout the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. A… read more
2021 L2 Theme development in Discursive and Experimental undergraduate student writing Register in L1 and L2 Language Development, Gray, Bethany and Jesse Egbert (eds.), pp. 247–278 | Article
To complement earlier studies of writing development in the BAWE corpus of successful student writing (Nesi & Gardner 2012; Staples et al. 2016), we examine the Systemic Functional Linguistics notion of Theme as used by L2 writers across first- and third-year and in two distinctive discourse… read more
2019 Engineering registers in the 21st century: SFL perspectives on online publications Language, Context and Text 1:1, pp. 65–101 | Article
Following an exploration of engineering programmes in higher education, and a review of literature on engineering registers, genres and disciplines, this paper asks if there is a register for engineering. Word frequencies, n-grams and frequent n-grams in context were analysed in a 7.3 million… read more
2019 Tributes to Margaret Berry On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry, Fontaine, Lise, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 15–27 | Miscellaneous