Sam Houston State University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Sam Houston State University*

Titles

Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German

Edited by Ryan Dux

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] 2020. | monograph

Persuasion Across Genres: A linguistic approach

Edited by Helena Halmari & Tuija Virtanen

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 130] 2005. viii, 257 pp. | edited volume

Östman, Jan-Ola & Helena Halmari 2025 Death-Row inmates’ last statements: Establishing identity through expressions of responsibility

Keywords: responsibility | last statements | execution | identity | complicity | Texas Death Row | capital punishment

In: Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] pp. 218–234

Halmari, Helena 2024 Apology as hypocrisy: Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump

Keywords: hypocritical apologies | felicity conditions | move structure | self-promotional moves/ethos | accusatory moves | Bill Clinton | Donald Trump

In: The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy, Sorlin, Sandrine & Tuija Virtanen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] pp. 124–160

Halmari, Helena 2024 Evaluation as a persuasive tactic in the 2012 Obama-Romney debates

Keywords: evaluation | persuasion | presidential debates | Barack Obama | Mitt Romney | discourse structure | distal demonstrative that

In: Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] pp. 18–35

Gibbons, John & Miriam Akoto 2023 Use of digital technologies for collaborative writing

Keywords: Google Docs | wikis | Etherpad | Canva | Plot

In: L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts, Li, Mimi & Meixiu Zhang (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] pp. 202–228

Beaulieu, Suzie, Kristin Reinke, Adéla Šebková & Leif Michael French 2022 I hear you, I see you, I know who you are: Attitudes towards ethnolinguistically marked French Lx speech in a traditionally homogeneous city

Keywords: language attitudes | accented speech | French L2 | immigrant-receiving cities

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 8:2 pp. 279–303 | article

French, Leif M., Nancy Gagné & Laura Collins 2022 Long-term effects of intensive instruction on fluency, comprehensibility and accentedness*

Keywords: long-term effects | intensive instruction | second language | oral fluency | fluency | comprehensibility | accentedness | development of oral competence | children

In: The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, Levis, John M., Tracey M. Derwing & Murray J. Munro (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 121] pp. 103–124

Funk, Marcus & Burton Speakman 2022 Setting a Q-uestionable attribute agenda: QAnon, far-right congressional candidates and irrational domains

The Agenda Setting Journal 5:2 pp. 244–265 | article

Dux, Ryan 2020 Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German

In: Frame-Constructional Verb Classes: Change and Theft verbs in English and German, Dux, Ryan (ed.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 28] p.  ff.

French, Leif M., Nancy Gagné & Laura Collins 2020 Long-term effects of intensive instruction on fluency, comprehensibility and accentedness

Keywords: Long-term effects | intensive instruction | second language | oral fluency | fluency | comprehensibility | accentedness | development of oral competence | children

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 pp. 380–401 | article

Dux, Ryan 2021 Code-switching and loan translation in German-American: A cognitive-constructional account

Keywords: language contact | code-switching | multilingualism | diasystematic construction grammar | German | English

Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 pp. 52–65 | article

Funk, Marcus 2018 r/Agenda_rejection: Attribute agenda-setting resistance between horizontal Reddit pages and vertical news coverage

Keywords: attribute agenda setting | agenda melding | need for orientation | Reddit | Christianity | digital community | imagined community

The Agenda Setting Journal 2:2 pp. 145–167 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.