Meishan Chen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Meishan Chen is involved.
Articles
2026 “How could you be wrong about something so general as that?”: A register comparison of authentic and TV courtroom language Register Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
Adopting a corpus-based register approach, this study explores the extent to which television courtroom discourse aligns with or diverges from authentic courtroom language, thereby contributing to broader discussions of register variation. In particular, drawing on the analytical framework for… read more
2019 Chapter 5. A comparison of lexical bundles in spoken courtroom language across time, registers, and varieties Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse, Fanego, Teresa and Paula Rodríguez-Puente (eds.), pp. 105–122 | Chapter
This chapter explores diachronic, register, and language varieties in courtroom language using three-word lexical bundles. Building on Culpeper and Kytö (2010), who described lexical bundles in Present Day English and Early Modern English trials, we explore the 1994 O. J. Simpson trial. Following… read more