David Brett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3950082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Brett |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Brett |
| SIGNATURE | BRETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sassari |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4285-0604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Titles in archaeology research articles
In comparison to other academic disciplines, the language of archaeology has received little attention from linguists. It is important to address this gap in our knowledge not only for its own sake, but also because archaeology today is a particularly heterogenous field, featuring contributions from disciplines across the soft and hard sciences. It is therefore of great interest to examine how the cooperation of experts from different traditions …
Is Travel Journalism more similar to Newspaper Language or the Language of Tourism? A corpus-based study
The Travel section of a newspaper is composed of texts which purport to at least partly comply with the ethical value of journalistic objectivity, yet the border between this type of writing and the overtly promotional texts produced in the tourism sector is somewhat blurred. This paper compares linguistic features in samples of text from Tourist Board websites and the Travel section and nine other sections of The Guardian to determine whether Tr…
Compliment patterns in English
Things in Their Places
This essay addresses itself to what I shall call the limiting conditions of its inquiry. Given that we speak of ‘visual culture’ as a field that comprises visual advertising, film, photography, various arts and a whole range of interlocking and overlapping practices, then to what degree can we engage with it when qualified by the term ‘in Northern Ireland’? Very large parts of this field seem to have very little connection to political geography,…
C. R. Mackintosh
The Aesthetical Science
The Aesthetical Science
C. R. Mackintosh
Things in Their Places
This essay addresses itself to what I shall call the limiting conditions of its inquiry. Given that we speak of ‘visual culture’ as a field that comprises visual advertising, film, photography, various arts and a whole range of interlocking and overlapping practices, then to what degree can we engage with it when qualified by the term ‘in Northern Ireland’? Very large parts of this field seem to have very little connection to political geography,…
Compliment patterns in English
Is Travel Journalism more similar to Newspaper Language or the Language of Tourism? A corpus-based study
The Travel section of a newspaper is composed of texts which purport to at least partly comply with the ethical value of journalistic objectivity, yet the border between this type of writing and the overtly promotional texts produced in the tourism sector is somewhat blurred. This paper compares linguistic features in samples of text from Tourist Board websites and the Travel section and nine other sections of The Guardian to determine whether Tr…
Titles in archaeology research articles
In comparison to other academic disciplines, the language of archaeology has received little attention from linguists. It is important to address this gap in our knowledge not only for its own sake, but also because archaeology today is a particularly heterogenous field, featuring contributions from disciplines across the soft and hard sciences. It is therefore of great interest to examine how the cooperation of experts from different traditions …
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)