Susan C. Herring

List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan C. Herring is involved.

Journal

Pragmatics and Society

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722

Titles

Media and Language Change

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 4:1 (2003) iv, 159 pp.

Textual Parameters in Older Languages

Edited by Susan C. Herring, Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler

Textual Parameters in Older Languages takes a contemporary approach to the inherent limitations of using older texts as data for linguistic analysis, drawing on methods of text analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to supplement traditional historical and philological methods. The focus of the… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 195] 2000. x, 448 pp.

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Edited by Susan C. Herring

Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as “chat”, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 39] 1996. viii, 326 pp.

Herring, Susan C. and Jing Ge-Stadnyk 2024 Emoji and illocutionarity: Acting on, and acting as, language Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 124–155 | Chapter

Emoji can modify a textual utterance, constitute a stand-alone speech act, or virtually perform an action. These three broad types of pragmatic function are usually treated separately in the literature when they are treated at all. We classify these functions in a systematic, unified manner by… read more

Dainas, Ashley R. and Susan C. Herring 2021 Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 107–144 | Chapter

This chapter describes the methods and the overall findings of the Understanding Emoji Survey, which we administered online in early 2018 to determine how social media users interpret the pragmatic functions of popular emoji types in the discourse context of comments posted to public Facebook… read more

Herring, Susan C. 2003 Media and Language Change: Introduction Media and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 1–17 | Article

Herring, Susan C. 2003 Review of Baron (2000): Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading Media and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 153–158 | Review

Herring, Susan C. 2000 Poeticality and Word Order in Old Tamil Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 197–236 | Article

Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler 2000 Preface Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface

Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler 2000 On Textual Parameters and Older Languages Textual Parameters in Older Languages, Herring, Susan C., Pieter van Reenen and Lene Schøsler (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article

Herring, Susan C. 1996 Two variants of an electronic message schema Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 81–108 | Article

Herring, Susan C. and John C. Paolillo 1995 Focus position in SOV languages Word Order in Discourse, Downing, Pamela A. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 163–198 | Article

Herring, Susan C. 1993 Aspectogenesis in South Dravidian: On the Origin of the ‘Compound Continuative’ KONTIRU Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 167–186 | Article

Herring, Susan C. 1993 Functional Stability in Language Change: The Evolution of Tense and Aspect in Tamil Studies in Language 17:2, pp. 313–341 | Article

This article addresses the question of whether tense markers in Modern Tamil were historically aspectual in function, as Zvelebil (1962) has claimed. The methodological approach employed is that developed by Hopper (1979a, 1979b, 1982) for the analysis of foreground and background in narrative… read more

Herring, Susan C. 1991 The grammaticallization of rhetorical questions in Tamil Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 253–284 | Article