Judy Delin

Delin, Judy, Abi Searle-Jones and Robert Waller 2006 Branding and relationship communications: The evolution of utility bills in the UK Information and Document Design: Varieties on Recent Research, Carliner, Saul, Jan Piet Verckens and Cathy de Waele (eds.), pp. 27–59 | Article

Bateman, John A., Judy Delin and Renate Henschel 2004 Multimodality and Empiricism: Preparing for a Corpus-based Approach to the Study of Multimodal Meaning-making Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.), pp. 65–87 | Article

Delin, Judy, John A. Bateman and Patrick Allen 2003 A model of genre in document layout Information Design Journal 11:1, pp. 54–66 | Article

We present a framework for the describing the genres of illustrated documents, based on analysis at five levels: content structure, rhetorical structure, layout structure, navigation structure, and linguistic structure. We also include three sources of constraints under which a document might be… read more

Delin, Judy and John A. Bateman 2002 Describing and critiquing multimodal documents Document Design 3:2, pp. 140–155 | Article

Murcia-Bielsa, Susana and Judy Delin 2001 Expressing the notion of purpose in English and Spanish instructions Functions of Language 8:1, pp. 79–108 | Article

Using a corpus of written consumer product instructions in English and Spanish, this paper provides a comparative description of the type and frequency of expressions used to convey the notion of an action’s PURPOSE or its goal. Based on our own observations and suggestions from previous… read more

Carroll, Tessa and Judy Delin 1998 Written instructions in Japanese and English: A comparative analysis Pragmatics 8:3, pp. 339–385 | Article

Scott, Donia R., Judy Delin and Anthony F. Hartley 1998 Identifying Congruent Pragmatic Relations in Procedural Texts Languages in Contrast 1:1, pp. 45–82 | Article

In this paper, we present a methodology for the contrastive analysis of comparable corpora of instructional texts in different languages. The methodology is insensitive to the fact that the texts under comparison differ widely in their semantic content, and it can be reliably applied by multiple… read more

Delin, Judy 1996 Review of Chafe (1994): Discourse, Consciousness, and Time: The Flow and Displacement of Conscious Experience in Speaking and Writing Functions of Language 3:1, pp. 129–133 | Review

Delin, Judy 1991 Towards a model for generating cleft sentences Pragmatics at Issue: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17–22, 1987, Verschueren, Jef (ed.), pp. 113–132 | Article

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