Don Miller
List of John Benjamins publications in which Don Miller is involved.
Articles
2015 The challenge of constructing a reliable word list: An exploratory corpus-based analysis of lexical variability in introductory Psychology textbooks Corpus-based Research in Applied Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Doug Biber, Cortes, Viviana and Eniko Csomay (eds.), pp. 123–146 | Article
This study highlights the methodological challenges inherent in reliably capturing meaningful sets of vocabulary for instructional focus. An analysis of a 3.1 million-word corpus of introductory psychology textbooks suggests that, while comparatively large, and, thus, presumably representative of… read more
2015 Evaluating reliability in quantitative vocabulary studies: The influence of corpus design and composition International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:1, pp. 30–53 | Article
Recent methodological advances have been used to create word lists based on large corpora. The present paper explores whether these corpora — and the associated lists — are unequivocally more representative. Corpus design considerations have usually focused on issues of external representativeness… read more
1991 Language and identity in the Australian deaf community: Australian sign language and language policy. An issue of social justice Language Planning and Language Policy in Australia, Liddicoat, Anthony J. (ed.), pp. 135–176 | Article
This paper examines the relationship between the Deaf1, their language, Auslan2 (Australian Sign Language), and the encompassing dominant hearing society and its culture in the context of the development of effective language policies for the Deaf, not only within the context of schooling but in… read more