David West Brown

List of John Benjamins publications in which David West Brown is involved.

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Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope

Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel

Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] 2023. vii, 292 pp.

Articles

Brown, David West, David Slomp and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel 2023 Introduction and overview to the volume Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope, Brown, David West and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel (eds.), pp. 25–40 | Chapter

DeJeu, Emily Barrow and David West Brown 2023 DocuScope, multi-dimensional analysis, and student writing: Comparisons across tagging systems and corpora Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope, Brown, David West and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel (eds.), pp. 42–78 | Chapter

In this chapter, we present a method for comparing tagging systems and patterns of disciplinary variation in corpora of student writing. We begin by highlighting the affordances of rhetorically and linguistically informed tagging systems by highlighting similarities and differences in each… read more

Brown, David West and Michael Laudenbach 2022 Stylistic variation in email Register Studies 4:1, pp. 1–29 | Article

This study explores how email is partly shaped by writers’ positions within a corporate structure. This stylistic variation is measurable at scale and can be described by messages’ rhetorical organizations and orientations. The modeling was carried out on a subset of the Enron email corpus,… read more