University of Memphis

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Memphis*

Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners

Hang Zhang & Lan Zhang

Subjects Sino-Tibetan languages | Theoretical linguistics

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 16] 2022. | text book

Focus-related Operations at the Right Edge in Spanish: Subjects and Ellipsis

Iván Ortega-Santos

Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 7] 2016. xii, 204 pp. |

Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy

Edited by Jenny Thomson & Linda Jarmulowicz

Subjects Language acquisition | Phonetics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics | Writing and literacy

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp. |

Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies

Edited by Max M. Louwerse & Willie van Peer

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] 2002. x, 448 pp. | course book

Casal, J. Elliott, Seth King & Pejman Javanmardi 2026 Web-based corpora and web-based corpus platforms

In: Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, Kessler, Matt (ed.) [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] pp. 172–191

Helms, Lindsay L. 2024 Spanish for Emergency Room Nursing: A task-based needs analysis

Keywords: needs analysis | task-based language teaching | Spanish for Nursing | medical Spanish | curriculum design

TASK 4:2 pp. 163–201 | article

Casal, J. Elliott, Genggeng Zhang, Ghadi Matouq & Hana Alqabba 2024 ‘These results are inconsistent’: ‘This/these + shell noun’ patterns in Engineering theses and research articles

Keywords: Shell Nouns | Corpus Linguistics | Genre Analysis | Academic Writing | English for Academic Purposes

Journal of Second Language Studies 7:2 pp. 320–346 | article

Ryu, Jisu, Soonbae Kim, Arthur C. Graesser & Moongee Jeon 2023 Corpus stylistic analysis of literary translation using multilevel linguistic measures: James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and their Korean translations

Keywords: corpus stylistics | literary texts | multilevel text analysis | translation

Target 35:4 pp. 514–539 | article

Zhang, Hang & Lan Zhang 2022 Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A Handbook for Chinese Language Teachers and Learners

In: Introducing Chinese Linguistics: A handbook for Chinese language teachers and learners, Zhang, Hang & Lan Zhang[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 16] p.  ff.

Windsor, Leah, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell, Tracy Osborn, Bryce Dietrich & Andrew J. Hampton 2022 Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate

Keywords: gender | language | linguistics | Senate | double bind

Journal of Language and Politics 21:6 pp. 919–943 | article

Nishi, Hironori 2022 Japanese no datta and no de atta in written discourse: Past forms of no da and no de aru

Keywords: Japanese | pragmatics | discourse analysis | n(o) da | no de aru | no datta | no de atta

Pragmatics 33:2 pp. 260–284 | article | open access

Nishi, Hironori 2021 An overview of the Japanese copula da as an utterance-final expression in conversation

Keywords: Japanese | copula | da | discourse | evaluation

Pragmatics & Cognition 27:2 pp. 432–456 | article

Kreuz, Roger J. & Alexander A. Johnson 2020  The production of verbal irony: How to be an ironist

Keywords: irony | discourse | pragmatics | computer-mediated communication | sentiment analysis

In: Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John & Andrew Gargett (eds.) [Figurative Thought and Language, 10] pp. 263–296

Lambert Graham, Sage 2020 Impoliteness and the moral order in online gaming

Keywords: multimodal | impoliteness | digital communication | moral order | computer-mediated communication | gender

In: (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 107] p. 99

Butera, Brianna, Rajiv Rao & Sandro Sessarego 2020 Afro-Peruvian Spanish intonation: A case of contact-induced language change

Keywords: Afro-Peruvian Spanish | prosody | intonation | contact-induced change

In: Spanish Phonetics and Phonology in Contact: Studies from Africa, the Americas, and Spain, Rao, Rajiv (ed.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 28] pp. 207–226

Nishi, Hironori 2019 English within Japanese: Loanwords from English in Japanese as a vocabulary pool for EFL education

Keywords: Japanese | English | loanwords | katakana | EFL education | ESL education

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:2 pp. 211–229 | article

Wright, Lyn 2019 Cashman, Holly R. 2018. Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities

Journal of Language and Sexuality 8:2 pp. 242–246 | book review

Nishi, Hironori 2019 Making ‘yes’ stronger by saying ‘no’: Utterance-initial iya in statements of ‘yes’ in Japanese

Keywords: Japanese | iya | pragmatics | yes-no question | agreement | disagreement | presumption

Pragmatics 29:1 pp. 133–154 | article | open access

Lambert Graham, Sage 2019 Impoliteness and the moral order in online gaming

Keywords: multimodal | impoliteness | digital communication | moral order | computer-mediated communication | gender

Internet Pragmatics 1:2 pp. 303–328 | article

Nishi, Hironori 2018 An overview of the Japanese quotative itta and itte ita

Keywords: Japanese | pragmatics | subjectivity | evidential marker | psychological impact | itta | itte ita | -te iru

Pragmatics 28:1 p. 93 | article | open access

Nau, Charlotte & Craig O. Stewart 2018 Effects of gender and verbal aggression on perceptions of U.S. political speakers

Keywords: gender | language | politics | verbal aggression | experiment

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:1 pp. 127–148 | article

Wright, Lyn 2018 Evaluating place in orientations of narratives of internal migration: ‘Mississippi is just like a boring place to me’

Keywords: evaluation | orientation | place | interviews | bilingualism | internal migration

Narrative Inquiry 28:1 pp. 198–214 | article

Gómez Soler, Inmaculada & Diego Pascual y Cabo 2018 On focus and weight in Spanish as a heritage language

Keywords: Spanish as a heritage language | word order | syntax-pragmatics interface | End-Focus Principle | End-Weight Principle | Español como lengua de herencia | orden de palabras | interfaz sintáctico-pragmática | Principio de foco final | Principio de peso final

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 31:2 pp. 437–466 | article

Wright, Lyn 2017 Bilingual/bisexual: Linguistic and sexual fluidity in fictional accounts of bilingualism and language learning

Keywords: bilingualism | bisexuality | fluidity | fiction | multilingualism

Journal of Language and Sexuality 6:1 pp. 177–203 | article

Graesser, Arthur C., Shi Feng & Zhiqiang Cai 2017 Two technologies to help adults with reading difficulties improve their comprehension

Keywords: AutoTutor | Coh-Metrix | conversational agents | discourse processing | intelligent tutoring systems | trialogues

In: Developmental perspectives in written language and literacy, Segers, Eliane & Paul van den Broek (eds.)  pp. 295–313

Zhang, Lan 2016 Review of Understanding the Chinese Language: A Comprehensive Linguistic Introduction by Chris Shei (2014)

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 51:2 pp. 225–229 | book review

Jarmulowicz, Linda 2016 Chapter 8. Stress Production in Derived English Words as a Developmental Window

In: Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy, Thomson, Jenny & Linda Jarmulowicz (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] pp. 163–186

Huette, Stephanie & Teenie Matlock 2016 Figurative language processing: Fictive motion and the visual world

In: Visually Situated Language Comprehension, Knoeferle, Pia, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck & Matthew W. Crocker (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] pp. 185–204

Spivey, Michael J. & Stephanie Huette 2016 Towards a situated view of language

In: Visually Situated Language Comprehension, Knoeferle, Pia, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck & Matthew W. Crocker (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 93] pp. 1–30

Gómez Soler, Inmaculada 2016 Acquisitional patterns of Spanish anticausative se: The end of the road

Keywords: alternating and non-alternating unaccusative predicates | unergative predicates | anticausative se | L1 transfer | ultimate attainment

Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28:2 pp. 349–381 | article

Gómez Soler, Inmaculada 2014  Beyond interfaces: Pragmatic development vs. syntactic deficiencies in the L2 acquisition of reverse psychological predicates

Keywords: interface hypothesis | integrative model of bilingual acquisition | psych-verbs | pragmatically-derived word order | given-before-new principle | u-shaped acquisition

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:4 pp. 494–525 | article

Crossley, Scott A., Shi Feng, Zhiqiang Cai & Danielle S. McNamara 2013 Chapter 5. Computer simulations of MRC Psycholinguistic Database word properties: Concreteness, familiarity, and imageability

In: Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures, Jarvis, Scott & Michael Daller (eds.) [Studies in Bilingualism, 47] pp. 135–156

Dale, Rick, Deborah P. Tollefsen & Christopher T. Kello 2012 An integrative pluralistic approach to phenomenal consciousness

In: Being in Time: Dynamical models of phenomenal experience, Edelman, Shimon, Tomer Fekete & Neta Zach (eds.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 88] pp. 231–258

Froese, Tom & Shaun Gallagher 2012 Getting interaction theory (IT) together: Integrating developmental, phenomenological, enactive, and dynamical approaches to social interaction

Interaction Studies 13:3 pp. 436–468 | article

Graesser, Arthur C., Nia Dowell & Christian Moldovan 2011 A computer’s understanding of literature

Scientific Study of Literature 1:1 pp. 24–33 | article

Louwerse, Max M. 2012 Introduction: Hot topics in information research

Information Design Journal 19:3 p. 249 | other

Young, Amanda 2008 9. Disciplinary rhetorics, rhetorical agency, and the construction of voice

In: Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text, Johnstone, Barbara & Christopher Eisenhart (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 31] pp. 227–246

Crossley, Scott & Max M. Louwerse 2007 Multi-dimensional register classification using bigrams

Keywords: register variation | multi-dimensional analysis | bigrams | collocations

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:4 pp. 453–478 | article

Sabino, Robin, Mary Diamond & Leah Cockcroft 2008 Language variety in the Virgin Islands: Plural markings

In: Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael & Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G30] pp. 81–94

Graesser, Arthur C., Victoria J. Pomeroy & Scotty D. Craig 2008 1. Psychological and computational research on theme comprehension

In: Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies, Louwerse, Max M. & Willie van Peer (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] pp. 19–34

Louwerse, Max M. 2008 10. Computational retrieval of themes

In: Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies, Louwerse, Max M. & Willie van Peer (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] pp. 189–212

Zwaan, Rolf A., Gabriel A. Radvansky & Shannon Whitten 2008 2. Situation models and themes

In: Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies, Louwerse, Max M. & Willie van Peer (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] pp. 35–53

Louwerse, Max M. & Willie van Peer 2008 Introduction

In: Thematics: Interdisciplinary Studies, Louwerse, Max M. & Willie van Peer (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 3] pp. 1–13

Graesser, Arthur C. & Bianca Klettke 2008 Agency, plot, and a structural affect theory of literary story comprehension

In: The Psychology and Sociology of Literature: In honor of Elrud Ibsch, Schram, Dick & Gerard J. Steen (eds.) [Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature, 35] pp. 57–69

Bailey, Guy 1994 Review of American Earlier Black English: Morphological and syntactic variables by Edgar W. Schneider (1989)

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2 pp. 338–344 | book review

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