Bill Louw

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bill Louw is involved.

Title

Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext

Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic

The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 23] 2016. xix, 419 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Louw, Bill 2012 Review of Teubert (2010): Meaning, Discourse and Society International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17:1, pp. 139–146 | Review

Louw, Bill 2011 Philosophical and literary concerns in Corpus Linguistics Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics, Viana, Vander, Sonia Zyngier and Geoff Barnbrook (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Article

Chair of the English Department at the University of Zimbabwe, Bill Louw contributes with an account of the philosophical aspects in Corpus Linguistics. He states that the popularity of corpora among language researchers in the recent years relates most directly to the search for truth. Louw takes… read more

Louw, Bill 2010 “The painting is where the paint is not”: Reflections on the “Bootcamp Debate” The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 344–353 | Article

Louw, Bill 2008 Consolidating empirical method in data-assisted stylistics: Towards a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. Directions in Empirical Literary Studies: In honor of Willie van Peer, Zyngier, Sonia, Marisa Bortolussi, Anna Chesnokova and Jan Auracher (eds.), pp. 243–264 | Article

Method (Gk. Meta + hodos) means an ‘after-path’. Radical revisions of methodology follow momentous paradigm-shifts within scientific theories. Hence linguistic-stylistics developed analogue collocation into its digital counterpart, especially through the discovery of semantic prosodies (Sinclair… read more

Louw, Bill 1993 Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? — The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies Text and Technology: In honour of John Sinclair, Baker, Mona, Gill Francis and Elena Tognini-Bonelli (eds.), pp. 157–176 | Article