Katharina Ehret
List of John Benjamins publications in which Katharina Ehret is involved.
2025 How to obtain speaker numbers for English varieties around the world: Theoretical concepts, challenges and estimations English World-Wide 46:3, pp. 299–322 | Article
Situated at the crossroads of English varieties studies, sociolinguistics, and typology, this paper offers an empirically-based discussion of practical and theoretical challenges involved in collecting speaker data for English varieties. The starting point is recent research on statistical… read more
2024 Podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication Register Studies 6:2, pp. 128–174 | Article
Podcasts, a relatively recent audio medium, have risen in popularity since their initial appearance in the mid-2000s. Yet, little is known about their lexico-grammatical characteristics and their relation to other computer-mediated and traditional registers. Addressing this gap, we apply… read more
2020 Are online news comments like face-to-face conversation? A multi-dimensional analysis of an emerging register Register Studies 2:1, pp. 1–36 | Article
This article focuses on the question of whether online news comments are like face-to-face conversation or not. It is a widespread view that online comments are like “dialogue”, with comments often being referred to as “conversations”. These assumptions, however, lack empirical back-up. In order… read more
2016 A lectometric analysis of aggregated lexical variation in written Standard English with Semantic Vector Space models International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:1, pp. 48–79 | Article
Lectometry is a corpus-based methodology that explores how multiple language-external dimensions shape language usage in an aggregate perspective. The paper combines this methodology with Semantic Vector Space modeling to investigate lexical variability in written Standard English, as sampled in… read more