Michaela Mahlberg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michaela Mahlberg is involved.
Book series
ISSN 3117-7646 | E‑ISSN 3117‑7654
Journal
International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Michaela Mahlberg
ISSN 1384-6655 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9811
Language and Covid-19
Edited by Michaela Mahlberg and Gavin Brookes
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert
Edited by Anna Čermáková and Michaela Mahlberg
With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 87] 2018. vi, 261 pp.
Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg
Lexical cohesion is about meaning in text. It concerns the ways in which lexical items relate to each other and to other cohesive devices so that textual continuity is created. Traditionally, lexical cohesion (along with other types of cohesion) has been investigated in individual texts. With the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 17] 2009. vi, 124 pp.
Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics
Edited by John Flowerdew and Michaela Mahlberg
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:3 (2006) 128 pp.
English General Nouns: A corpus theoretical approach
Michaela Mahlberg
This book proposes an innovative approach to general nouns. General nouns are defined as high-frequency nouns that are characterised by their textual functions. Although the concept is motivated by Halliday & Hasan (1976), the corpus theoretical approach adopted in the present study is… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 20] 2005. x, 206 pp.
2026 Chapter 16. Towards a local grammar of speech presentation in narrative fiction Practising Stylistics: Essays in Honour of Paul Simpson, Neary, Clara, Simon Statham and Peter Stockwell (eds.), pp. 200–215 | Chapter
In this chapter, Michaela Mahlberg introduces a local grammar for the analysis of speech — a ‘local grammar’ is a model for a specific purpose, as a set of local textual functions. Here, the specific focus is speech in narrative fiction, which Mahlberg explores using the corpus stylistic tool… read more
2021 Language and Covid-19: Corpus linguistics and the social reality of the pandemic Language and Covid-19, Mahlberg, Michaela and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 441–443 | Introduction
2021 The representation of mothers and the gendered social structure of nineteenth-century children’s literature English Text Construction 14:2, pp. 119–149 | Article
Language has the capacity to create fictional worlds and to describe real-life social structures. In this paper, we explore gendered social structures in a corpus of nineteenth-century children’s fiction. We describe these structures in terms of the frequent nouns that are used to label people… read more
2020 Fiction – one register or two? Speech and narration in novels Register Studies 2:1, pp. 72–101 | Article
In this paper our focus is on analyzing register variation within fiction, rather than between fiction and other registers. By working with subcorpora that separate text within and outside of quotation marks, we appromixate fictional speech and narration. This enables us to identify and compare… read more
2018 Translating fictional characters – Alice and the Queen from the Wonderland in English and Czech The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert, Čermáková, Anna and Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), pp. 223–253 | Chapter
In this chapter, we propose a novel theoretical framework for the literary translation of fictional characters. This framework develops the cognitive corpus linguistic notion of mind-modelling to account for process-, product- and function-oriented aspects of literary translation. We use the… read more
2018 Introduction The Corpus Linguistics Discourse: In honour of Wolfgang Teubert, Čermáková, Anna and Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction
2017 Key words and translated cohesion in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and one of its Italian translations English Text Construction 10:1, pp. 78–105 | To be specified
In this paper, we explore the potential of a corpus approach to study translated cohesion. We use key words as starting points for identifying cohesive networks in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness and discuss how these networks contribute to the construction of literary meanings in the… read more
2016 Chapter 13. Point and CLiC: Teaching literature with corpus stylistic tools Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments, Burke, Michael, Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier (eds.), pp. 253–270 | Article
This chapter looks at the corpus tool CLiC, a web application specifically designed for the study of literary texts. It allows students to run concordances or generate keywords, for instance. It gives students the opportunity to work with a corpus of Dickens novels, but also with novels by other… read more
2015 Editor’s note International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:4, p. | Article
2015 Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels Current Issues in Phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
This paper addresses relations between lexico-grammatical patterns and texts. Our focus is on a specific linguistic unit, the ‘suspended quotation’ (or ‘suspension’), which has received particular attention in Dickens studies. The suspended quotation refers to an interruption of a fictional… read more
2013 Editor’s note Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), p. | Subsection
2013 Phrases in literary contexts: Patterns and distributions of suspensions in Dickens’s novels Current issues in phraseology, Hoffmann, Sebastian, Bettina Fischer-Starcke and Andrea Sand (eds.), pp. 35–56 | Article
This paper addresses relations between lexico-grammatical patterns and texts. Our focus is on a specific linguistic unit, the ‘suspended quotation’ (or ‘suspension’), which has received particular attention in Dickens studies. The suspended quotation refers to an interruption of a fictional… read more
2011 A case for corpus stylistics: Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale English Text Construction 4:2, pp. 204–227 | Article
In this article we investigate keywords and key semantic domains in Fleming’s Casino Royale. We identify groups of keywords that describe elements of the fictional world such as characters and settings as well as thematic signals. The keyword groups fall into two broad categories that are… read more
2009 Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application English in language teaching Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics, Flowerdew, John and Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), pp. 103–122 | Article
Cohesion is generally described with regard to two broad categories: ‘grammatical cohesion’ and ‘lexical cohesion’. These categories reflect a view on language that treats grammar and lexis along separate lines. Language teaching textbooks on cohesion often follow this division. In contrast, a… read more
2009 Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 265–287 | Article
The article investigates the link between lexical and textual patterns in newspaper texts. Patterns in newspaper stories strikingly illustrate the relationship between meaning and form. The article presents an analysis of the core move follow* in a corpus of Guardian newspaper texts. The analysis… read more
2006 Introduction Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics, Flowerdew, John and Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), pp. 261–263 | Article
2006 Lexical cohesion: Corpus linguistic theory and its application in English language teaching Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics, Flowerdew, John and Michaela Mahlberg (eds.), pp. 363–383 | Article
Cohesion is generally described with regard to two broad categories: ‘grammatical cohesion’ and ‘lexical cohesion’. These categories reflect a view on language that treats grammar and lexis along separate lines. Language teaching textbooks on cohesion often follow this division. In contrast, a… read more
2003 The textlinguistic dimension of corpus linguistics: The support function of English general nouns and its theoretical implications International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 8:1, pp. 97–108 | Article
Corpus research can provide important insights into different areas of language description. The present paper takes a textlinguistic approach to the description of English and puts into perspective the ‘support function’ of general nouns such as man, move and thing. The support function captures… read more
