Michael Stubbs
Selected articles and talks

 

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  • (2021) Pragmatic patterns in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Text and Talk, 41 (5-6): 813-32.
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  • (2021) Text, intertext and meaning: with illustrations from Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes. In M Malá & A Čermáková eds. Variation in Time and Space, De Gruyter. 37-63.
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  • (2019) How to do things with intertext: on Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. In B Busse & R Möhlig-Falke eds Patterns in Language and Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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  • (2019) Fact, fiction and French flights of fancy. In P Simpson ed Language, Style and Creativity in Language. In Memory of Walter (Bill) Nash (1926-2015). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 127-48.
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  • (2018) The (very) long history of corpora, concordances, collocations and all that. In A Čermáková & M Mahlberg eds The Corpus Linguistics Discourse. In Honour of Wolfgang Teubert. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 9-33.
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  • (2016) Corpus semantics. In N Riemer ed Handbook of Semantics. London: Routledge. 106-21.
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  • (2015) The textual functions of lexis. In N Groom et al eds Corpora, Grammar and Discourse. In Honour of Susan Hunston. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 97-115.
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  • (2015) Computer-assisted methods of analysing textual and intertextual competence. In D Tannen et al eds The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley. 486-504.
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  • (2014) Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts: a sketch of a research problem. In M de los A Gómez González et al eds The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 243-60.
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  • (2014) Semantics. In C Leung & B Street eds Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies. London: Routledge. 215-28.
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  • (2014) Patterns of emotive lexis and discourse organization in short stories by James Joyce. In P Blumenthal et al eds Les émotions dans le discours. Emotions in Discourse. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang. 237-53.
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  • (2013) 1965, 1972, 1991. Chomsky, Labov, Sinclair. [Exaugural lecture, Universität Trier, 12 Feb 2013. PowerPoint slides.]
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  • (2013) Sequence and order: the neo-Firthian tradition of corpus semantics. In H Hasselgård et al eds Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 13-33.
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  • (2012) Corpora and texts: lexis and text structure. In J Mukherjee & M Huber eds Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 223-30.
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  • (2011) A tribute to John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 – 13 March 2007). In T Herbst et al eds The Phraseological View of Language: A Tribute to John Sinclair. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-16.
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  • (2010) Three concepts of keywords. In M Bondi & M Scott eds Keyness in Texts. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 21-42.
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  • (2008) The turn of the linguists: text, analysis, interpretation. In A Müller-Wood ed Texting Culture, Culturing Texts. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. 1- 14.
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  • (2007) Inferring meaning: text, technology and questions of induction. In A Mehler & R Köhler eds Aspects of Automatic Text Analysis. Berlin: Springer. 233-53.
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  • (2006) On teaching critical rationalism: reconciling linguistic and literary text analysis. In A Gerbig & A Müller-Wood eds How Globalization Affects the Teaching of English.. Lampeter: Mellen. 15-29.
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  • (2004) Language corpora. In A Davies & C Elder eds Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 106-32.
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  • (2003) Conrad, concordance, collocation: heart of darkness or light at the end of the tunnel? Third Sinclair Open Lecture, University of Birmingham, 8 May 2003.
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  • (2003) (with I Barth) Using recurrent phrases as text-type discriminators: a quantitative method and some findings. Functions of Language. 10, 1: 65-108.
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  • (2002) Two quantitative methods of studying phraseology in English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 7, 2: 215-44.
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  • (2001) Texts, corpora and problems of interpretation: a response to Widdowson. Applied Linguistics, 22, 2: 149-72.
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  • (2000) Society, education and language: the last 2000 (and the next 20?) years of language teaching. In H Trappes-Lomax ed Continuity and Change in Applied Linguistics. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 15-34.
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  • (1998) German loanwords and cultural stereotypes. English Today, 53 (14, 1): 19-26.
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  • (1997) Whorf's children: critical comments on critical discourse analysis. In A Wray & A Ryan eds Evolving Models of Language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 100-16.
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  • (1997) Language and the mediation of experience: linguistic representation and cognitive orientation. In F Coulmas ed Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell. 358-73.
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  • (1996) Towards a modal grammar of English. Chap 8 of Text and Corpus Analysis. [Revised from an article in Applied Linguistics, 7, 1 (1986)].
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  • (1995) Collocations and semantic profiles: on the cause of the trouble with quantitative studies. Functions of Language, 2, 1: 23-55.
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  • (1989) The state of English in the English state: reflections on the Cox Report. Language and Education, 3, 4: 235-50.
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