Tomoko Sawaki
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tomoko Sawaki is involved.
Articles
2020 Interacting voices structure a text: A quantitative investigation of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses Functions of Language 27:2, pp. 174–206 | Article
This paper quantitatively measures the distribution of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses with the aim of uncovering the roles of dialogic elements in constructing texts. The research was designed to test Bakhtin’s perspective on genre, which… read more
2014 Interactions between ideology, dialogic space construction, and the text-organizing function: A comparative study of traditional and postmodern academic writing corpora English Text Construction 7:2, pp. 178–214 | Article
Dialogic elements are considered to play a crucial role in text construction, but little has been revealed concerning how these elements interact with other resources to construct text. This paper explores the text-organizing function of heteroglossic resources quantitatively by focusing on… read more