Axel Bohmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 792272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Axel Bohmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Axel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohmann |
| SIGNATURE | BOHMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0058-3587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Not that Tight a Family’ – BIG Mess Constructions in Present Day American English
This paper presents a usage-based, constructional analysis of the so-called BIG MESS construction in Present Day English (e.g. how big a mess , that big a deal , too strong a word ). Data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is presented in order to analyze the frequency, genre distribution and lexical biases of seven subtypes ( how , however , so , as , too , this , that ). The paper also zooms in on the feature of ‘discontinu…
Digital debating cultures
Reddit as a platform for online forum interaction hosts various communities (subreddits), which give rise to specific digital communicative practices. Communication on Reddit is on the one hand unified by a set of common affordances, and on the other hand it is characterized by a great deal of variation in terms of topics, interactional patterns, and linguistic features. In this article, we aim to map the communicative space(s) of Reddit by means…
Future‐time reference in world Englishes
This paper presents the first large‐scale multivariate analysis of future‐time reference (FTR) variation in world Englishes. On the basis of 7,922 hand‐coded tokens from eight corpora of the International Corpus of English suite, the study probes the effect of eight predictor variables on the choice between will and BE going to (BGT) as FTR markers. Statistically significant effects for all conditioning variables except polarity are found, as wel…
Stance in narration
Stancetaking is a complex linguistic practice at the levels of both function and form, and as such is difficult to analyze in a narrow variable context. Instead of treating stance as a linguistic variable in the variationist sense, we analyze how participants use different types and forms of stancetaking in a specific speech event, the re‐narration of a story. A combined view of the range of different options used by speakers allows us to describ…
Situating Twitter Discourse in Relation to Spoken and Written Texts
Language use on Twitter is a recent and currently understudied phenomenon. The present study makes an empirical contribution towards understanding the similarities and differences between Twitter and offline registers. To this purpose, a lectometric analysis is conducted: on the basis of 236 linguistic features whose frequency information is measured in 7 309 spoken, written and Twitter texts, 10 dimensions of linguistic variation are developed. …
Nobody canna cross it’
The concept of speaky-spoky, a pejorative label for hypercorrect speech in Jamaica, has thus far been described in the context of shared speech community norms (Patrick 1999). In this article, I analyze a stretch of speaky-spoky discourse and its recontextualization. The theoretical perspectives from which the data are examined are that of the sociolinguistics of globalization (Blommaert 2010) and of entextualization (Bauman & Briggs 1990; Silver…
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Alternation among restrictive relativizers in written Standard English is undergoing a massive shift from which to that . In corpora of written-edited-published British and American English covering the period from 1961-1992, American English spearheads this change. We study 16,868 restrictive relative clauses with inanimate antecedents from the Brown quartet of corpora. Predictors include additional areas of variation regulated by prescriptivism…
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Alternation among restrictive relativizers in written Standard English is undergoing a massive shift from which to that . In corpora of written-edited-published British and American English covering the period from 1961-1992, American English spearheads this change. We study 16,868 restrictive relative clauses with inanimate antecedents from the Brown quartet of corpora. Predictors include additional areas of variation regulated by prescriptivism…
Stance in narration
Stancetaking is a complex linguistic practice at the levels of both function and form, and as such is difficult to analyze in a narrow variable context. Instead of treating stance as a linguistic variable in the variationist sense, we analyze how participants use different types and forms of stancetaking in a specific speech event, the re‐narration of a story. A combined view of the range of different options used by speakers allows us to describ…
Nobody canna cross it’
The concept of speaky-spoky, a pejorative label for hypercorrect speech in Jamaica, has thus far been described in the context of shared speech community norms (Patrick 1999). In this article, I analyze a stretch of speaky-spoky discourse and its recontextualization. The theoretical perspectives from which the data are examined are that of the sociolinguistics of globalization (Blommaert 2010) and of entextualization (Bauman & Briggs 1990; Silver…
Nobody canna cross it’
The concept of speaky-spoky, a pejorative label for hypercorrect speech in Jamaica, has thus far been described in the context of shared speech community norms (Patrick 1999). In this article, I analyze a stretch of speaky-spoky discourse and its recontextualization. The theoretical perspectives from which the data are examined are that of the sociolinguistics of globalization (Blommaert 2010) and of entextualization (Bauman & Briggs 1990; Silver…
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Which -hunting and the Standard English relative clause
Alternation among restrictive relativizers in written Standard English is undergoing a massive shift from which to that . In corpora of written-edited-published British and American English covering the period from 1961-1992, American English spearheads this change. We study 16,868 restrictive relative clauses with inanimate antecedents from the Brown quartet of corpora. Predictors include additional areas of variation regulated by prescriptivism…
Situating Twitter Discourse in Relation to Spoken and Written Texts
Language use on Twitter is a recent and currently understudied phenomenon. The present study makes an empirical contribution towards understanding the similarities and differences between Twitter and offline registers. To this purpose, a lectometric analysis is conducted: on the basis of 236 linguistic features whose frequency information is measured in 7 309 spoken, written and Twitter texts, 10 dimensions of linguistic variation are developed. …
Stance in narration
Stancetaking is a complex linguistic practice at the levels of both function and form, and as such is difficult to analyze in a narrow variable context. Instead of treating stance as a linguistic variable in the variationist sense, we analyze how participants use different types and forms of stancetaking in a specific speech event, the re‐narration of a story. A combined view of the range of different options used by speakers allows us to describ…
Future‐time reference in world Englishes
This paper presents the first large‐scale multivariate analysis of future‐time reference (FTR) variation in world Englishes. On the basis of 7,922 hand‐coded tokens from eight corpora of the International Corpus of English suite, the study probes the effect of eight predictor variables on the choice between will and BE going to (BGT) as FTR markers. Statistically significant effects for all conditioning variables except polarity are found, as wel…
‘Not that Tight a Family’ – BIG Mess Constructions in Present Day American English
This paper presents a usage-based, constructional analysis of the so-called BIG MESS construction in Present Day English (e.g. how big a mess , that big a deal , too strong a word ). Data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is presented in order to analyze the frequency, genre distribution and lexical biases of seven subtypes ( how , however , so , as , too , this , that ). The paper also zooms in on the feature of ‘discontinu…
Digital debating cultures
Reddit as a platform for online forum interaction hosts various communities (subreddits), which give rise to specific digital communicative practices. Communication on Reddit is on the one hand unified by a set of common affordances, and on the other hand it is characterized by a great deal of variation in terms of topics, interactional patterns, and linguistic features. In this article, we aim to map the communicative space(s) of Reddit by means…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · American English (2 works)