Jennifer Herriman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer Herriman is involved.
2024 The thematic organization of consumer safety instructions in English English Text Construction 17:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
This study investigates how the content of consumer safety instructions is organized in Themes and N-Rhemes and connected by thematic progressions. The Themes are chiefly directives or representations of the product and its usage. The goal of safety instructions, on the other hand, i.e. avoiding… read more
2013 The extraposition of clausal subjects in English and Swedish Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics: Studies in honour of Stig Johansson, Aijmer, Karin and Bengt Altenberg (eds.), pp. 233–260 | Article
This study compares the extraposition of subject clauses in two samples of English and Swedish original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. It finds a more frequent usage of extrapositions in the Swedish sample. This is due to formal, syntactic, semantic and… read more
2012 Existential constructions in English and Swedish Languages in Contrast 12:2, pp. 165–186 | Article
Existential constructions introduce newsworthy information into the discourse by placing it in a position of prominence late in the message, in the Rheme. This study compares existential constructions in a sample of English and Swedish source texts and their translations in the English Swedish… read more
2011 N-rhemes in English problem–solution texts English Text Construction 4:1, pp. 29–53 | Article
It has been claimed that the last constituent of the clause, the N-rheme, is the part of the message which the writer wants the reader to remember and which is most likely to correlate with the goals of the text (Fries 2002). This study investigates the N-rhemes in two samples of problem–solution… read more
2009 Themes in Swedish advanced learners' writing in English Corpora and Language Teaching, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 101–120 | Article
Advanced non-native learners’ writing may contain very few grammar mistakes but still appear somewhat deviant from native writing. This study investigates to what extent this deviance may be a result of differences in the non-native learners’ organization of information. Using a Systemic Functional… read more
2008 The interpersonal function of clefts in English and Swedish Languages in Contrast 8:2, pp. 143–160 | Article
Seen from an interpersonal perspective, within the framework of Appraisal (Martin and White 2005), cleft constructions in English and Swedish function in the system of Engagement as a heteroglossic rhetorical device by which speakers and writers negotiate an authorial position for themselves while… read more
2003 Negotiating identity: The interpersonal functions of wh-clefts in English Functions of Language 10:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
This study investigates the interpersonal functions of basic and reversed wh-clefts extracted from the Freiburg LOB corpus of written English (FLOB). It shows that, within the framework of appraisal (Martin 2000, White 2001), wh-clefts function in the heteroglossic system of engagement. They allow… read more
2001 Tense in Swedish and English: A contrastive study Languages in Contrast 3:2, pp. 203–222 | Article
This paper presents a pilot contrastive investigation of tense in English and Swedish. Tense is regarded as a morphological category, and present and past tense inflections, as well as a number of auxiliary and main verb combinations, have been compared in a small sample of texts from the… read more
2000 The functions of extraposition in English texts Functions of Language 7:2, pp. 203–230 | Article