The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause
Edited by Ben Clarke and Jorge Arús-Hita
Special issue of English Text Construction 9:1 (2016) v, 219 pp.
Ben Clarke
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ben Clarke is involved.
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2022 Fighting talk: The use of the conceptual metaphor climate change is conflict in the UK Houses of Parliament, 2015–2019 Journal of Language and Politics 21:4, pp. 589–612 | Article
Analyses on news media data in Conceptual Metaphor Theory have highlighted several frequent metaphors used to understand climate change including climate change is conflict. This article analyses the frequency of that conceptual metaphor in a corpus of UK parliamentary debates on climate change.… read more
2021 Naming rights sponsorship in Europe: Fan reactions to stadium renamings in the Premier League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 AILA Review 34:2, pp. 212–239 | Article
Football stadiums have traditionally been named after local sites (e.g. Goodison Park, Everton FC) or regions (Ruhrstadion, VfL Bochum). As big business takes increasing precedence in decision making in football at large (e.g. associations and leagues, regarding fixtures, media coverage,… read more
2016 Textual dynamism as a heuristic for a delicate semantic description of ellipsis patterns The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause, Clarke, Ben and Jorge Arús-Hita (eds.), pp. 99–114 | Article
This paper puts the case that viewing text dynamically can be valuable in the practice of semantic description. Using, as its case study, the statistically significant occurrence of Subject ellipsis across consecutive clauses in a corpus of newspaper football reports, the paper demonstrates a… read more
2016 The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause: Introduction The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause, Clarke, Ben and Jorge Arús-Hita (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article