David West Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David West Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | David West |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7745-6354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reconsidering Corpus Methods in HEL
Turning text into numbers—and ultimately into an interpretable result—typically involves a processing pipeline. Whether explicit or hidden inside code, each step in that pipeline involves a host of decisions. This article follows a pipeline and unpacks some of the attendant decisions that analysts face at various stages, highlighting the specific challenges that confront analysts investigating historical data. Data, for example, can be less avail…
Dense and Disconnected
ChatGPT and other LLMs are at the forefront of pedagogical considerations in classrooms across the academy. Many studies have spoken to the technology’s capacity to generate one-off texts in a variety of genres. This study complements those by inquiring into its capacity to generate compelling texts at scale. In this study, we quantitatively and qualitatively analyze a small corpus of generated texts in two genres and gauge it against novice and …
Elaborated Specificity versus Emphatic Generality
Text-driven, quantitative methods provide new ways to analyze student writing, by uncovering recurring grammatical features and related stylistic effects that remain tacit to students and those who read and evaluate student writing. To date, however, these methods are rarely used in research on students transitioning into US postsecondary writing, and especially rare are studies of student writing that is already scored according to high-stakes w…
Singapore English and styling the Ah Beng
This paper explores stylized renderings of Singapore English as such 'verbal art' is used by Singaporean youth in popular online forums. In order to analyze these stylizations, this study uses corpora collected from two forums frequented by Singaporean students. The data suggests that posters often use stylized representations to perform or to ventriloquize the identity of an Ah Beng (a kind of hustler or gangster). Implicated in such performance…
Coming to Terms With What It Means to Teach and Learn Grammar
Research Article| May 01 2009 COMING TO TERMS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO TEACH AND LEARN GRAMMAR David West Brown David West Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2009) 84 (2): 216–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2009-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David West Brown; COMING TO TERMS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO TEACH AND LEARN GRAMMAR. Amer…
Linguistic Emancipation After King
Review Article| August 01 2008 LINGUISTIC EMANCIPATION AFTER KING Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change Edited by H. Samy Alim and John Baugh New York: Teachers College Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 189. ISBN-13 978-0-8077-4747-6; $60.00 (pbk $26.95) David West Brown David West Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2008) 83 (3): 359–363. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-025 Views Icon …
Paris Hilton, Brenda Frazier, Blogs, and the Proliferation Ofcelebu
In 1939, Walter Winchell coined celebutante in recognition of young Brenda Frazier's status and fame. More recently, celebu- has detached and become a productive combining form. Part of that productivity can be ascribed to its felicitous phonological properties. Many celebu- coinages, however, appear in blogs. Thus, the productivity of celebu- results from the specific register conditions of blogs. The specific case of celebu- reveals much about …
Girls and guys, ghetto and bougie
This case study explores the metapragmatic awareness of a young, academically successful, African American, female speaker. It describes some of the identities and orientations that the speaker performs through language and the perceived role of linguistic style in such performances. This study suggests that these linguistic performances are a complex negotiation of ethnicity, gender and class that both draw from and resist the macrosocial indexi…
Girls and guys, ghetto and bougie
This case study explores the metapragmatic awareness of a young, academically successful, African American, female speaker. It describes some of the identities and orientations that the speaker performs through language and the perceived role of linguistic style in such performances. This study suggests that these linguistic performances are a complex negotiation of ethnicity, gender and class that both draw from and resist the macrosocial indexi…
Coming to Terms With What It Means to Teach and Learn Grammar
Research Article| May 01 2009 COMING TO TERMS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO TEACH AND LEARN GRAMMAR David West Brown David West Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2009) 84 (2): 216–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2009-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David West Brown; COMING TO TERMS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO TEACH AND LEARN GRAMMAR. Amer…
Singapore English and styling the Ah Beng
This paper explores stylized renderings of Singapore English as such 'verbal art' is used by Singaporean youth in popular online forums. In order to analyze these stylizations, this study uses corpora collected from two forums frequented by Singaporean students. The data suggests that posters often use stylized representations to perform or to ventriloquize the identity of an Ah Beng (a kind of hustler or gangster). Implicated in such performance…
Girls and guys, ghetto and bougie
This case study explores the metapragmatic awareness of a young, academically successful, African American, female speaker. It describes some of the identities and orientations that the speaker performs through language and the perceived role of linguistic style in such performances. This study suggests that these linguistic performances are a complex negotiation of ethnicity, gender and class that both draw from and resist the macrosocial indexi…
Linguistic Emancipation After King
Review Article| August 01 2008 LINGUISTIC EMANCIPATION AFTER KING Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change Edited by H. Samy Alim and John Baugh New York: Teachers College Press, 2007. Pp. xvi + 189. ISBN-13 978-0-8077-4747-6; $60.00 (pbk $26.95) David West Brown David West Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2008) 83 (3): 359–363. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-025 Views Icon …
Paris Hilton, Brenda Frazier, Blogs, and the Proliferation Ofcelebu
In 1939, Walter Winchell coined celebutante in recognition of young Brenda Frazier's status and fame. More recently, celebu- has detached and become a productive combining form. Part of that productivity can be ascribed to its felicitous phonological properties. Many celebu- coinages, however, appear in blogs. Thus, the productivity of celebu- results from the specific register conditions of blogs. The specific case of celebu- reveals much about …
Coming to Terms With What It Means to Teach and Learn Grammar
Research Article| May 01 2009 COMING TO TERMS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO TEACH AND LEARN GRAMMAR David West Brown David West Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2009) 84 (2): 216–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2009-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David West Brown; COMING TO TERMS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO TEACH AND LEARN GRAMMAR. Amer…
Singapore English and styling the Ah Beng
This paper explores stylized renderings of Singapore English as such 'verbal art' is used by Singaporean youth in popular online forums. In order to analyze these stylizations, this study uses corpora collected from two forums frequented by Singaporean students. The data suggests that posters often use stylized representations to perform or to ventriloquize the identity of an Ah Beng (a kind of hustler or gangster). Implicated in such performance…
Elaborated Specificity versus Emphatic Generality
Text-driven, quantitative methods provide new ways to analyze student writing, by uncovering recurring grammatical features and related stylistic effects that remain tacit to students and those who read and evaluate student writing. To date, however, these methods are rarely used in research on students transitioning into US postsecondary writing, and especially rare are studies of student writing that is already scored according to high-stakes w…
Dense and Disconnected
ChatGPT and other LLMs are at the forefront of pedagogical considerations in classrooms across the academy. Many studies have spoken to the technology’s capacity to generate one-off texts in a variety of genres. This study complements those by inquiring into its capacity to generate compelling texts at scale. In this study, we quantitatively and qualitatively analyze a small corpus of generated texts in two genres and gauge it against novice and …
Reconsidering Corpus Methods in HEL
Turning text into numbers—and ultimately into an interpretable result—typically involves a processing pipeline. Whether explicit or hidden inside code, each step in that pipeline involves a host of decisions. This article follows a pipeline and unpacks some of the attendant decisions that analysts face at various stages, highlighting the specific challenges that confront analysts investigating historical data. Data, for example, can be less avail…
Linguistics (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)