Sandra Mollin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sandra Mollin is involved.

Titles

The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective

Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 78] 2018. vii, 271 pp. | open access

The (Ir)reversibility of English Binomials: Corpus, constraints, developments

Sandra Mollin

This book focuses on binomials (word pairs such as heart and soul, rich and poor, or if and when), and in particular on the degree of reversibility that English binomials demonstrate. Detailed and innovative corpus linguistic analyses investigate the correlates of the degree of reversibility,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 64] 2014. x, 254 pp.

Mollin, Sandra 2018 The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective, Bös, Birte, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández (eds.), pp. 205–226 | Chapter

Identity construction is group membership construction in that humans bring their individual selves into being by declaring and performing their belonging to in-groups which are constructed in contrast to out-groups, as suggested in Tajfel’s theory of social identity. In parliamentary discourse,… read more

Mollin, Sandra 2014 Review of Siemund, Davydova & Maier (2012): The Amazing World of Englishes. A Practical Introduction & Seargeant (2012): Exploring World Englishes. Language in a Global Context English World-Wide 35:3, pp. 353–357 | Review

Mollin, Sandra 2014 Review of Schönefeld (2011): Converging Evidence. Methodological and Theoretical Issues for Linguistic Research International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 19:1, pp. 156–161 | Review

Mollin, Sandra 2010 Review of Berns, de Bot & Hasebrink (2007): In the Presence of English. Media and European Youth English World-Wide 31:2, pp. 191–194 | Review

Mollin, Sandra 2009 “I entirely understand” is a Blairism: The methodology of identifying idiolectal collocations International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14:3, pp. 367–392 | Article

While the study of idiolect is a neglected area in corpus linguistics, the present article suggests that it can be fruitful. As a tool for studying an idiolect, the three-million-word Tony Blair Corpus is introduced. The maximiser collocations occurring in this corpus are compared to those in the… read more

Mollin, Sandra 2007 New variety or learner English? Criteria for variety status and the case of Euro-English English World-Wide 28:2, pp. 167–185 | Article

In deciding whether non-native English is to be classified as a new variety or simply as learner language, a yardstick is needed against which the candidate variety can be tested. This paper offers such criteria for ESL-variety status, based on the three processes in the development of a new… read more