Bethany Gray
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bethany Gray is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2542-9477 | E‑ISSN 2542‑9485
Titles
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.
Linguistic Variation in Research Articles: When discipline tells only part of the story
Bethany Gray
Linguistic Variation in Research Articles investigates the linguistic characteristics of academic research articles, going beyond a traditional analysis of the generically-defined research article to take into account varied realizations of research articles within and across disciplines. It… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 71] 2015. xiv, 222 pp.
2025 Comparing theory-based models of grammatical complexity in student writing Cumulative Knowledge Building in Learner Corpus Research, Larsson, Tove and Douglas Biber (eds.), pp. 145–177 | Article
The present study tests the empirical adequacy of competing models of grammatical complexity in university student writing, based on analysis of disciplinary texts from L1-English and L2-English students. The results show that grammatical complexity in student writing must be treated as a… read more
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
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 Register in Applied Linguistics Register Studies 2:2, pp. 173–175 | Editorial
2020 Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis: Research writing across disciplines Advances in Corpus-based Research on Academic Writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise, Römer-Barron, Ute, Viviana Cortes and Eric Friginal (eds.), pp. 137–168 | Chapter
We carry out comprehensive form–function mapping in Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion/Conclusion – structured research articles across 30 academic disciplines by merging move analysis (revealing rhetorical structure) and multi-dimensional (MD) analysis (modeling patterns of linguistic… read more
2019 Chapter 7. Are law reports an ‘agile’ or an ‘uptight’ register? Tracking patterns of historical change in the use of colloquial and complexity features Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse, Fanego, Teresa and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Chapter
Language change is a natural evolutionary process, and as a result it is reasonable to expect that all registers will undergo historical change to some extent. While some registers adopt linguistic innovations readily, others resist such changes and exhibit more conservative patterns of change.… read more
2019 Editorial: Register and register variation Register Studies 1:1, pp. 1–9 | Editorial
2018 Academic writing as a locus of grammatical change: The development of phrasal complexity features Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 117–146 | Chapter
Based on large-scale corpus analysis, this study challenges the notion that academic writing is conservative and resistant to change by documenting linguistic innovations that have emerged in academic writing over the past 200 years. The study explores the dramatic patterns of change that have… read more
2015 On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber, Cortes, Viviana and Eniko Csomay (eds.), pp. 49–78 | Article
Building upon renewed research on the pervasive phrasal or nominal style of academic writing, I investigate the use of phrasal compression and clausal elaboration structures in research articles across six academic disciplines. Results indicate that all disciplines rely on phrasal complexity… read more
2015 Lexical frames in academic prose and conversation Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 109–134 | Article
While lexical bundles research identifies continuous sequences (e.g. the end of the, I don’t know if), researchers have also been interested in discontinuous sequences in which words form a ‘frame’ surrounding a variable slot (e.g. I don’t * to, it is * to). To date, most research has focused on a… read more
2013 Lexical frames in academic prose and conversation Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 109–136 | Article
While lexical bundles research identifies continuous sequences (e.g. the end of the, I don’t know if), researchers have also been interested in discontinuous sequences in which words form a ‘frame’ surrounding a variable slot (e.g. I don’t * to, it is * to). To date, most research has focused on a… read more
2012 9. The emergence and evolution of the pattern N + PREP + V-ing in historical scientific texts Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900, Moskowich, Isabel and Begoña Crespo (eds.), pp. 181–198 | Article
2011 The historical shift of scientific academic prose in English towards less explicit styles of expression: Writing without Verbs Researching Specialized Languages, Bhatia, Vijay, Purificación Sánchez and Pascual Pérez-Paredes (eds.), pp. 11–24 | Article
The stereotypical view of professional academic writing is that it is grammatically complex, with elaborated structures, and with meaning relations expressed explicitly. In contrast, spoken registers, especially conversation, are believed to have the opposite characteristics. Our goal in the… read more