M Gillings
Biographic Data
| ID | 29589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Gillings |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillings |
| SIGNATURE | GILLINGS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vienna University of Economics and Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6114-0117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Corpus linguistics for leadership studies: Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide
Our aim in this paper is to add to the methodological toolbox of qualitative research in leadership by illustrating how corpus linguistics (CL) can be used to study large-scale datasets comprised of text or talk. CL differs from other approaches to analysing large-scale textual data, such as topic modeling and sentiment analysis, because it enables detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic choices on the level of vocabulary and…
The Language of Justice: Examining Courtroom Discourse in an Electoral Conflict
Indonesia’s Presidential election in 2019 was a repeat contest between Joko Widodo (JM) as the incumbent, and Prabowo Subianto (PS) as the second-time contender. Once the manual counting of the votes was over, the General Election Committee declared that JM gained more than 55% of the votes; yet that count was challenged by PS. The issue was settled in the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. This study aims to discuss the courtroom dynamics of tha…
The rise of large language models: Challenges for Critical Discourse Studies
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are opening up new areas of research and teaching potential across a variety of domains. The purpose of the present conceptual paper is to map this new terrain from the point of view of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). We demonstrate that the usage of LLMs raises concerns that definitely fall within the remit of CDS; among them, power and inequality. After an initial explanation of LLMs, we focus on t…
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time
This article examines the discourses around climate change in the UK press from 2003 to 2019. Our main goal is to investigate how the media discourse developed during a period of significant world events, whilst also exploring the change in the UK public’s perception of the problem. We combine the novel technique of Usage Fluctuation Analysis (UFA, McEnery et al. 2019) with corpus-assisted discourse analysis to track the fluctuation in the usage …
Business communication through a corpus linguistic lens
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness
British culture is said to be characterised by off-record or negative politeness and norms giving prominence to social distance. However, this assumes that politeness works in the same way across all British speakers and contexts. Work constituting variational pragmatics – a field at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology – has shown this to be an over-simplification. Using data from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, this paper explo…
Concordancing for Cads: Practical challenges and theoretical implications
Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus linguist’s toolkit. However, despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously unquestioned mainstays of corpus methods ( Mautner, 2015 ; Taylor & Marchi, 2018 ), this has not focused on concordance analysis specifically. In this paper, we aim to discuss issues that researchers may encounter when interpreting concordances. We begin in Step One with a …
What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare? Problems and solutions
Teaching and learning Shakespeare takes place across the world. Pedagogical matters have been the subject of much discussion in the last few decades. This article begins by reviewing that discussion, showing how different approaches – textual, contextual and active (or performance) – connect with the language of the plays. No study, it is pointed out, has conducted an empirical investigation as to what exactly students find problematic when they …
Depictions of deception: A corpus-based analysis of five Shakespearean characters
Drawing on the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus: First Folio Plus and using corpus-based methods, this article explores, quantitatively and qualitatively, Shakespeare’s depictions of five deceptive characters (Aaron, Tamora, Iago, Lady Macbeth and Falstaff). Our analysis adopts three strands: firstly, statistical keywords relating to each character are examined to determine what this tells us about their natures more generally. Secondly, the wordlis…
Pragmatics: Data trends
Pragmatics: Data trends
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness
British culture is said to be characterised by off-record or negative politeness and norms giving prominence to social distance. However, this assumes that politeness works in the same way across all British speakers and contexts. Work constituting variational pragmatics – a field at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology – has shown this to be an over-simplification. Using data from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, this paper explo…
Concordancing for Cads: Practical challenges and theoretical implications
Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus linguist’s toolkit. However, despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously unquestioned mainstays of corpus methods ( Mautner, 2015 ; Taylor & Marchi, 2018 ), this has not focused on concordance analysis specifically. In this paper, we aim to discuss issues that researchers may encounter when interpreting concordances. We begin in Step One with a …
Pragmatics: Data trends
What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare? Problems and solutions
Teaching and learning Shakespeare takes place across the world. Pedagogical matters have been the subject of much discussion in the last few decades. This article begins by reviewing that discussion, showing how different approaches – textual, contextual and active (or performance) – connect with the language of the plays. No study, it is pointed out, has conducted an empirical investigation as to what exactly students find problematic when they …
Depictions of deception: A corpus-based analysis of five Shakespearean characters
Drawing on the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus: First Folio Plus and using corpus-based methods, this article explores, quantitatively and qualitatively, Shakespeare’s depictions of five deceptive characters (Aaron, Tamora, Iago, Lady Macbeth and Falstaff). Our analysis adopts three strands: firstly, statistical keywords relating to each character are examined to determine what this tells us about their natures more generally. Secondly, the wordlis…
Concordancing for Cads: Practical challenges and theoretical implications
Concordance analysis is widely recognised as one of the main techniques in a corpus linguist’s toolkit. However, despite a growing body of work critically exploring previously unquestioned mainstays of corpus methods ( Mautner, 2015 ; Taylor & Marchi, 2018 ), this has not focused on concordance analysis specifically. In this paper, we aim to discuss issues that researchers may encounter when interpreting concordances. We begin in Step One with a …
Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time
This article examines the discourses around climate change in the UK press from 2003 to 2019. Our main goal is to investigate how the media discourse developed during a period of significant world events, whilst also exploring the change in the UK public’s perception of the problem. We combine the novel technique of Usage Fluctuation Analysis (UFA, McEnery et al. 2019) with corpus-assisted discourse analysis to track the fluctuation in the usage …
Business communication through a corpus linguistic lens
Sociopragmatic variation in Britain: A corpus-based study of politeness
British culture is said to be characterised by off-record or negative politeness and norms giving prominence to social distance. However, this assumes that politeness works in the same way across all British speakers and contexts. Work constituting variational pragmatics – a field at the interface of pragmatics and dialectology – has shown this to be an over-simplification. Using data from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014, this paper explo…
The Language of Justice: Examining Courtroom Discourse in an Electoral Conflict
Indonesia’s Presidential election in 2019 was a repeat contest between Joko Widodo (JM) as the incumbent, and Prabowo Subianto (PS) as the second-time contender. Once the manual counting of the votes was over, the General Election Committee declared that JM gained more than 55% of the votes; yet that count was challenged by PS. The issue was settled in the Constitutional Court of Indonesia. This study aims to discuss the courtroom dynamics of tha…
The rise of large language models: Challenges for Critical Discourse Studies
Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are opening up new areas of research and teaching potential across a variety of domains. The purpose of the present conceptual paper is to map this new terrain from the point of view of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). We demonstrate that the usage of LLMs raises concerns that definitely fall within the remit of CDS; among them, power and inequality. After an initial explanation of LLMs, we focus on t…
Corpus linguistics for leadership studies: Bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide
Our aim in this paper is to add to the methodological toolbox of qualitative research in leadership by illustrating how corpus linguistics (CL) can be used to study large-scale datasets comprised of text or talk. CL differs from other approaches to analysing large-scale textual data, such as topic modeling and sentiment analysis, because it enables detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic choices on the level of vocabulary and…
Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Corpus linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)