Louisa Buckingham
List of John Benjamins publications in which Louisa Buckingham is involved.
2023 A discourse dynamics exploration of terminology for Covid-19 in professional and public discourse: A frame-based approach The terminological impact of pandemics: COVID-19 and beyond, Wermuth, Maria-Cornelia and Paul Sambre (eds.), pp. 224–251 | Article
This study identified terminology used in academia and media relating to Covid-19 and traced its development across 20 months from a discourse dynamics perspective. The cross-corpus comparison identified significant differences between the two corpora in the use of terminology relating to… read more
2021 A discourse dynamics exploration of attitudinal responses towards COVID-19 in academia and media Language and Covid-19, Mahlberg, Michaela and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 532–556 | Article
This study analyzes attitudinal positioning in academic and media discourse pertaining to COVID-19 from the COVID-19 Corpus and Coronavirus Corpus, using a discourse dynamics approach. Underpinning this approach is the Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), which we employ to examine the… read more
2021 The linguistic landscape and materials development: Learning Chinese in Auckland Linguistic Landscape 7:3, pp. 285–313 | Article
Despite the wide acceptance of the contributions of linguistic landscape (LL) research to sociolinguistic analyses, models of how the LL can be exploited to practise specific features of the language system have been lacking. In this study we focus on Mandarin Chinese, an important community… read more
2018 The textual colligation of stance phraseology in cross-disciplinary academic discourse: The timing of authors’ self-projection International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 23:4, pp. 408–436 | Article
This study investigates the textual colligation of stance phrases at the levels of sentence, paragraph and text in empirical research articles from agriculture and economics. We extracted the textual positions of stance phrases with the software Wordskew (Barlow, 2016) in two purpose-built… read more
2013 Light verb constructions in Latin American newspapers: Creative variants and coinages Spanish in Context 10:1, pp. 114–135 | Article
This article examines the occurrence of variant forms of Spanish light verb constructions (LVCs) in a seven-million-word corpus of contemporary newspaper texts from seven Latin American countries. The findings from this corpus are compared with results from a previous study using a corpus of… read more