Mark McGlashan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Mark McGlashan is involved.
2024 Keywords of the manosphere International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 29:1, pp. 87–115 | Article
This paper examines language used in five of the largest manosphere communities on Reddit (r/TheRedPill, r/braincels, r/MensRights, r/seduction, and r/MGTOW) to identify idiosyncratic language use within these communities. To do so, a novel methodology which combines key-key-word analysis with… read more
2024 Same-sex marriage, gay marriage, or equal marriage? Category construction in a corpus of 21st century newspaper texts Journal of Language and Sexuality 13:2, pp. 129–153 | Article
Changes to marriage legislation across the globe have received much academic and public attention. However, the labels used to categorise different marital configurations are somewhat under researched. In this paper we analyse the premodification of marriage in a corpus of UK newspaper articles… read more
2023 Landwhales, femoids and sub-humans: Dehumanising metaphors in incel discourse Metaphor and the Social World 13:2, pp. 178–196 | Article
Incels, or involuntary celibates, are a community of typically heterosexual young men who wish to, but do not, have sexual and romantic relationships with women. As a community, they have previously been characterised by their hatred for women and violent acts against members of society who they… read more
2022 Narrative evaluation in patient feedback: A study of online comments about UK healthcare services Narratives as Social Practice in Organisational Contexts, Van De Mieroop, Dorien, Jonathan Clifton and Stephanie Schnurr (eds.), pp. 9–35 | Article
This study examines how patients use narratives to evaluate their experiences of healthcare services online. The analysis draws on corpus linguistic techniques, specifically annotation, applying Labov and Waletzky’s (1967) framework to a sample of online comments about the NHS in England.… read more
2021 Networked discourses of bereavement in online COVID-19 memorials Language and Covid-19, Mahlberg, Michaela and Gavin Brookes (eds.), pp. 557–582 | Article
This paper reports on study of online COVID-19 memorials posted during 2020 to the Church of England website https://www.rememberme2020.uk/. The paper employs a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) approach to analyse networks of co-occurring linguistic items (types and lemmata) and patterns… read more