Joanna Kopaczyk

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joanna Kopaczyk is involved.

Titles

Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Jukka Tyrkkö

The use of corpora has conventionally been envisioned as being either corpus-based or corpus-driven. While the formal definition of the latter term has been widely accepted since it was established by Tognini-Bonelli (2001), it is often applied to studies that do not, in fact, fullfil the… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 82] 2018. vii, 313 pp.

Communities of Practice in the History of English

Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 235] 2013. vii, 291 pp.

Kopaczyk, Joanna and Jukka Tyrkkö 2018 Chapter 11. Blogging around the world: Universal and localised patterns in Online Englishes Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 277–310 | Chapter

The borderless nature of blogging raises the question whether the traditional regionally defined varieties of English continue to hold true (see Crystal 2011). In order to investigate the extent to which the language published online without external intervention is similar around the world, this… read more

Tyrkkö, Jukka and Joanna Kopaczyk 2018 Chapter 1. Present applications and future directions in pattern-driven approaches to corpus linguistics Applications of Pattern-driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter

Kopaczyk, Joanna 2015 Review of Jucker & Taavitsainen (2013): English Historical Pragmatics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 16:2, pp. 321–326 | Review

Jucker, Andreas H. and Joanna Kopaczyk 2013 Communities of practice as a locus of language change Communities of Practice in the History of English, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Kopaczyk, Joanna 2013 How a community of practice creates a text community: Middle Scots legal and administrative discourse Communities of Practice in the History of English, Kopaczyk, Joanna and Andreas H. Jucker (eds.), pp. 225–250 | Article

Kopaczyk, Joanna 2013 Formulaic discourse across Early Modern English medical genres: Investigating shared lexical bundles Meaning in the History of English: Words and texts in context, Jucker, Andreas H., Daniela Landert, Annina Seiler and Nicole Studer-Joho (eds.), pp. 257–300 | Article

This paper offers a corpus-driven investigation into the formulaic nature of Early Modern English medical genres. The aim of this study is to answer three related questions: (1) to what extent various text categories in medical discourse share the same lexico-syntactic choices?; (2) what stable and… read more

Kopaczyk, Joanna 2012 Repetitive and therefore fixed? Lemmatic bundles and text-type standardisation in 15th-century administrative Scots English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008, Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger (eds.), pp. 189–208 | Article

This is a pilot study investigating the role of phrasal fixedness in the development of a standardised text type. The linguistic material comes from the Edinburgh Corpus of Older Scots (ECOS), consisting of samples of administrative records from 15th-century Scotland. The corpus has been searched… read more