Allan R. James
List of John Benjamins publications in which Allan R. James is involved.
2018 The textual analysis of dramatic discourse revisited: Linguistic layers and the (social) semiotics of play-constitutive and play-realisational elements English Text Construction 11:2, pp. 200–225 | Article
This article explores dimensions of dramatic structure which the literary linguistic analysis of a play text can illuminate within an integrated model of dramatic significance. The play to be examined is John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, known for its lexical richness,… read more
2014 English as a visual language: Theorising the social semiotics of anglography in polylingual texts English Text Construction 7:1, pp. 18–52 | Article
The present article develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of the semiotics of the English of mixed-language texts as are found worldwide in various domains of public and private communication. The social meaning of such anglography, it will be argued, must be interpreted as a result of… read more
1991 Phonological structure and the contextual variability of interlan-guage segments Further Insights into Contrastive Analysis, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 231–240 | Article
1990 Suffixation and second Language Acquisition: Morphological Derivation in the English of Dutch Secondary School Pupils ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 87/88, pp. 65–93 | Article
The aim of the present paper was to find out which learning strategies secondary school pupils of different ages employ to acquire complex words in English as their second language: either by applying rules and analogies or by learning by heart. As a working hypothesis, it was postulated that… read more
1988 Lexical Conditions on Segment Learning: The Pronunciation of Known vs. Unknown Words Taalverwerving in onderzoek, pp. 118–130 | Article
Theories of phonological processing and of phonological change stress the importance of the word as the structural context of segments in acquisition and historical development, respectively. After a discussion of these theories with reference to a model of second language acquisition, an… read more
1981 Phonological Idioms In Second Language Pronunciation Performance Fonetiek en vreemde-talenonderwijs, pp. 119–126 | Article
1977 Review of SAMPSON, R. (1976) Phonetik und Phonologie ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 38, pp. 105–107 | Review