- Authorship Attribution and Profiling
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Gender Studies in Language
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Vienna University of Economics and Business
2020-2024
Lancaster University
2018-2019
British culture is said to be characterised by off-record or negative politeness and norms giving prominence social distance. However, this assumes that works in the same way across all speakers contexts. Work constituting variational pragmatics – a field at interface of dialectology has shown an over-simplification. Using data from Spoken National Corpus 2014, paper explores variation gender, age, region, population density, class, highest educational qualification, setting. We selected 50...
This study creates a prediction model to identify which linguistic and extra-linguistic features influence pronoun choices in the plays of Shakespeare. In English Shakespeare’s time, now-archaic distinction between you thou persisted, is usually reported as being determined by relative social status personal closeness speaker addressee. But it remains be whether statistical machine learning will support this traditional explanation. 23 are investigated, having been selected from multiple...
Grammar is one of the levels within language system at which authorial choices mode expression over others must be examined to characterise in full style author. Such however assessed context an understanding extent variability that exists generally language. This study investigates a set grammatical features understand their Early Modern English drama, and Shakespeare’s distinct from or similar his contemporaries so far as these are concerned. A review prior works on grammar establishes...