Mohsen Ghadessy

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mohsen Ghadessy is involved.

Titles

Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice

Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry

Recent developments in this field of small corpus studies, largely brought about by the personal computer, have yielded remarkable insights into the nature and use of real language. This book presents work by a number of leading researchers in the field and covers a series of topics directly… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 5] 2001. xxiv, 419 pp.

Text and Context in Functional Linguistics

Edited by Mohsen Ghadessy

The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 169] 1999. xviii, 340 pp.

Articles (4) | Order by:

Ghadessy, Mohsen and Yanjie Gao 2001 12. Small corpora and translation: Comparing thematic organization in two languages Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. 335–362 | Article

Ghadessy, Mohsen and Yanjie Gao 2001 Simplification as a Universal Feature of the Language of Translation Language Management and Language Problems: Part II, Jernudd, Björn H. (ed.), pp. 61–75 | Article

A common belief among a number of applied linguists working with parallel texts (texts from a source language, L1, and their translations into a target language, L2) is that “translated language is different from the original language” (Mauranen 1998: 160). A related research question is “Are… read more

Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry 2001 Introduction Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, Ghadessy, Mohsen, Alex Henry and Robert L. Roseberry (eds.), pp. xvii–xxiv | Miscellaneous

Ghadessy, Mohsen 1999 5. Textual features and contextual factors for register identification Text and Context in Functional Linguistics, Ghadessy, Mohsen (ed.), pp. 125–140 | Article