Brett J. Hashimoto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Brett J. Hashimoto is involved.
2025 A register approach to specialized word list creation: Using keywords to supplement the Contracts Word List Register and Professional Discourse, Staples, Shelley and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 11–41 | Article
Specialized word lists (SWLs) can help language learners acquire domain-specific vocabulary; however, there are few such lists for legal domains despite the growing demand for resources in this area. Additionally, in list design and construction, register is rarely considered a meaningful… read more
2021 How operationalizations of word types affect measures of lexical diversity Natural language processing for learner corpus research, Kyle, Kristopher (ed.), pp. 163–194 | Article
This study tests three measures of lexical diversity (LD), each using five operationalizations of word types. The measures include MTLD (measure of textual lexical diversity), MTLD-W (moving average MTLD with wrap-around measurement), and MATTR (moving average type-token ratio). Each of these… read more
2020 Using a corpus in creating and evaluating a DCT Applied Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 80–120 | Article
Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) have been one of the most popular tools in pragmatics research. Yet, many have criticized DCTs for their lack of authenticity (e.g., Culpeper, Mackey, & Taguchi, 2018; Nguyen, 2019). We propose that corpora can serve as resources in designing and evaluating DCTs. read more