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Jesse Egbert Curriculum Vitae

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JESSE EGBERT

Curriculum Vitae

Northern Arizona University

BAA 315

Flagstaff, AZ 86011

phone: (801) 979-1706

email: [email protected]

webpage: http://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jae89

Education

May 2014

May 2013

Dec. 2010

Aug. 2009

Ph.D. Applied Linguistics

(with distinction)


Dissertation title: ‘Reader perceptions of linguistic

variation in published academic writing’

Dissertation chair: Douglas Biber

Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics


M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language

(with distinction)


B.A. Linguistics

(summa cum laude and University Honors)

Brigham Young University

Honors thesis: ‘Intergenerational language attitudes and

vitality: The Navajo language shift’

Academic Employment History

2019 –

2016 – 2019

2015 – 2016

2014 – 2015

2012 – 2014

Associate Professor, Northern Arizona University

Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University

Visiting Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University

Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University

National Science Foundation grant #1147581

‘A linguistic taxonomy of English web registers’

Co-Principal Investigators: Douglas Biber & Mark Davies


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Summer 2012

2009 – 2012

2006 – 2009

Research Fellow, Centre for Corpus Research, University

of Birmingham, UK

Instructor, Northern Arizona University

Instructor (Fijian), Missionary Training Center

Teaching

Northern Arizona University, English Department

ENG 709 – Corpus Linguistics and Triangulation

ENG 709 – Python programming for Corpus Linguistics (2)

ENG 698 – Advanced Statistics in Applied Linguistics (2)

ENG 568 – Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching

ENG 528 – Grammatical Foundations

ENG 518 – Sociolinguistics

ENG 420C – Corpus Linguistics

ENG 223 – Language in the U.S.

ENG 220 – Grammar and Usage (2)

ENG 205 – The Academic Writer’s Workshop (4)

ENG 105 – Critical Reading and Writing in the University Community (6)

ENG 100 – Fundamentals in English Composition (2)

Brigham Young University, Department of Linguistics and English Language

LING 240 - Linguistic Tools I (3)

LING 360 - Text Processing and Analysis (3)

LING 440 - Linguistic Tools II (2)

LING 485 - Corpus Linguistics

LING 580R - Corpus Linguistics

LING 580R - Programming for Linguistics

MBA 693R - MBA Program Readings

HCOLL 110 - Careers in Linguistics and English Language I

HCOLL 480R - Careers in Linguistics and English Language II

Northern Arizona University, Program in Intensive English

Grammar (beginner)

Writing Lab (low intermediate)

Listening and Speaking (high intermediate)

Related Teaching

Fijian Language (Missionary Training Center)

LDS Seminary (Flagstaff Arizona Stake, LDS Church)


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Publications

Books

Egbert, J., Larsson, T. & Biber, D. (forthcoming). Corpus data and language

description: Giving priority to linguistics in quantitative corpus r esearch.

Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press.

Egbert, J. & Baker, P. (Eds.) (2019). Triangulating Corpus Linguistics with other

Linguistic Research Methods. New York: Routledge.

Biber, D. & Egbert, J. (2018). Register Variation Online. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

Baker, P. & Egbert, J. (Eds.) (2016). Triangulating Methodological Approaches in

Corpus Linguistic Research. New York: Routledge.

Egbert, J., Biber, D., & Gray, B. (under contract | 2020). Designing and Evaluating

Language Corpora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Biber, D., Gray, B., Staples, S. & Egbert, J., (under contract | 2021). The Register-

Functional Approach to grammatical complexity: Theoretical foundation,

descriptive research findings, applications. New York: Routledge.

Peer-reviewed articles

Cunningham, C.D. & Egbert, J. (2020). Using empirical data to investigate the original

meaning of “emolument” in the Constitution, Georgia State Law Review, 36.

Ren, H., Wood, M., Cunningham, C.D., Abbady, N., Römer, U., Kuhn, H. & Egbert, J.

(2020). “Questions involving national peace and harmony” or “Injured plaintiff

litigation”? The original meaning of “cases” in Article III of the Constitution ,

Georgia State Law Review, 36.

Biber, D., Staples, S., Gray, B. & Egbert, J. (2020). Investigating grammatical

complexity in L2 English writing research: Linguistic description versus

predictive measurement. Journal of English for Academic Purposes.

Biber, D., Reppen, R., Staples, S. & Egbert, J. (2020). Exploring the longitudinal

development of linguistic complexity in the disciplinary writing of L2 -English

university students. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 6(1): 38 –

71.


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Egbert, J. & Mahlberg, M. (2020). Fiction—One register or two? Narrative and speech

in novels. Register Studies, 2(1): 72 – 101.

Hashimoto, B., Keller, D., Sudina, E., Yaw, K., Egbert, J., & Plonsky, L. (2020).

Research in Progress: Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University, USA.

Language Teaching, 1 – 6.

Egbert, J., Burch, B., & Biber, D. (2020). Lexical dispersion and corpus design.

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 25(1): 87 – 113.

Egbert, J., Wizner, S., Keller, D., Biber, D., Baker, P., & McEnery, T. (forthcoming).

Identifying and describing functional conversation units in the BNC Spoken 2014.

Text & Talk.

Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2019). Incorporating text dispersion into keyword analyses.

Corpora, 14(1): 77 – 104.

Burch, B. & Egbert, J. (2019). Zero-inflated beta distribution applied to word frequency

and lexical dispersion in corpus linguistics. Journal of Applied Statistics, 47(2):

337 – 353.

Hashimoto, B. & Egbert, J. (2019). More than frequency?: Exploring predictors of word

difficulty for second language learners. Language Learning, 69(4): 839 – 872.

Biber, D., Egbert, J. & Keller, D. (2019). Reconceptualizing register in a continuous

situational space. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Phillips, J.C. & Egbert, J. (2018). Advancing law and corpus linguistics: Importing

principles and practices from survey and content-analysis methodologies to

improve corpus design and analysis. BYU Law Review, 2017(6): 1589 – 1620.

Egbert, J. (2017). Corpus linguistics and language testing: Navigating uncharted waters.

Language Testing, 34(4): 555-564.

Burch, B., Egbert, J., & Biber, D. (2017). Measuring and interpreting lexical dispersion

in corpus linguistics. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and

Communication Science, 3(2): 189-216.

Staples, S., LaFlair, G.T., & Egbert, J. (2017). Comparing language use in oral

proficiency interviews to target domains: Conversational, academic, and

professional discourse. The Modern Language Journal, 101(1): 194-213.

Hartshorn, J., Evans, N., Egbert, J. & Johnson, A. (2017). Reading expectations and

challenges for English language learners in lower- and upper-division major

courses in US universities. Reading in a Foreign Language. 29(1): 36-60.


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Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2016). Do all roads lead to Rome?: Modeling register variation

with factor analysis and discriminant analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic

Theory.

Biber, D. & Egbert, J. (2016a). Register variation on the searchable web: A Multi-

Dimensional analysis. Journal of English Linguistics. 44(2): 95-137.

Biber, D. & Egbert, J. (2016b). Using Multi-Dimensional analysis to study register

variation on the searchable web. Corpus Linguistics Research. 2: 1-23.

Szmrecsanyi, B., Biber, D., Egbert, J. & Franco, K. (2016). Towards more

accountability: Modeling ternary genitive variation in Late Modern English.

Language Variation and Change. 28(1): 1-29.

Staples, S., Egbert, J., Biber, D. & Gray, B. (2016). Academic writing development at

the university: Phrasal and clausal complexity across level of study, discipline,

and genre. Written Communication. 33(2): 149-183.

Biber, D. & Egbert, J. (2015). Using grammatical features for automatic register

identification in an unrestricted corpus of documents from the open web. Journal

of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science .

2(1): 3-36.

Plonsky, L., Egbert, J., & LaFlair, G. (2015). Boostrapping in applied linguistics:

Assessing its potential using shared data. Applied Linguistics. 36(5): 591-610. Egbert, J. & Plonsky, L. (2015). Success in the abstract: Linguistic and stylistic

predictors of conference abstract ratings. Corpora, 10(3): 291-313.

Egbert, J., Biber, D., & Davies, M. (2015). Developing a Bottom-up, User-based

Method of Web Register Classification. Journal of the Association for

Information Science and Technology, 66(9): 1817-1831.

Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Davies, M. (2015). Exploring the composition of the searchable

web: A corpus-based taxonomy of web registers. Corpora, 10(1): 11-45.

Egbert, J. (2015). Publication type and discipline variation in published academic

writing: Investigating statistical interaction in corpus data. International Journal

of Corpus Linguistics, 20(1): 1-29.

Egbert, J. (2014). Student perceptions of stylistic variation in introductory university

textbooks. Linguistics and Education, 25: 64-77.

Staples, S., Egbert, J., Biber, D., & McClair, A. (2013). Formulaic sequences and EAP

writing development: Lexical bundles in the TOEFL iBT writing section. Journal

of English for Academic Purposes, 12(3), 214-225.


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Egbert, J. (2012). Style in nineteenth century fiction: A multi -dimensional analysis. The

Scientific Study of Literature, 2(2), 167-198.

Book chapters

Biber, D. & Egbert, J. (forthcoming). Orality on the searchable web: A comparison of involved

web registers and face-to-face conversation. In E. Jonsson & T. Larsson (Eds.), Voices

past and present - Studies of involved, speech-related and spoken texts. In honor of Merja

Kytö. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cunningham, C.D. & Egbert, J. (forthcoming). Corpora and analyzing legal discourse in the

United States. In E. Friginal and J. Hardy (Eds.), Routledge handbook of corpus

approaches to discourse analysis. New York: Routledge.

Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (forthcoming). It’s just words, folks. It’s just words”: Donald Trump’s

distinctive linguistic style. In M. Eitelmann and U. Schneider (Eds.), Linguistic enquiries

into Donald Trump’s language. London: Bloomsbury.

Egbert, J., Biber, D., Szmrecsanyi, B, & Fahy, M. (forthcoming). Comparing multinomial

logistic regression, conditional inference trees and random forests: Three-way genitive

variation in letters, news, and science writing. Comparative approaches to methods in

corpus linguistics.

Egbert, J. & Davies, M. (2019). If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oil made of? The

shifting semantics of Noun+Noun sequences in American English. In J. Egbert & P. Baker

(Eds.), Using corpus methods to triangulate linguistic linguistic analysis. New York:

Routledge.

Egbert, J. & Plonsky, L. (forthcoming). Bootstrapping techniques. In Magali Paquot and Stefan

Th. Gries (Eds.), Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, New York: Springer.

Plonsky, L. & Egbert, J. (forthcoming). Meta-analyzing corpus linguistic research. In Magali

Paquot and Stefan Th. Gries (Eds.), Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, New York:

Springer.

Egbert, J. (2019). The corpus in multidimensional analysis. In Tony Berber-Sardinha and Marcia

Veirano Pinto (Eds.), Multidimensional Analysis, London: Bloomsbury.

Egbert, J. & Staples, S. (2019). Doing multidimensional analysis in SPSS, SAS and R. In Tony

Berber-Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto (Eds.), Multidimensional Analysis, London:

Bloomsbury.


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Egbert, J. & LaFlair, G.T. (2019). Statistics for categorical and distribution free data. In Peter De

Costa, Aek Phakiti, Sue Starfield, and Luke Plonsky (Eds.), Handbook of Applied

Linguistics Research Methodology, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Biber, D., Egbert, J. & Zhang, M. (2018). Lexis and grammar as complementary discourse

systems for expressing stance and evaluation. In María de los Ángeles Gómez González

and J. Lachlan Mackenzie. (Eds.), The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction,

Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Egbert, J. & Schnur, E. (2018). Missing the trees for the forest: The role of the text in corpus and

discourse analysis. In Anna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor (Eds.), Corpus Approaches to

Discourse: A Critical Review, New York: Routledge.

Biber, D., Egbert, J. & Zhang, M. (2017). Using corpus-based analysis to study register and

dialect variation on the searchable web. In Friginal, E. (Ed.), Studies in Corpus-Based

Sociolinguistics, New York: Routledge.

Baker, P. & Egbert, J. (2016). Introduction. In P. Baker & J. Egbert (Eds.), Triangulating

methodological approaches in corpus-linguistic research. New York: Routledge.

Egbert, J. (2016). Stylistic perception. In P. Baker & J. Egbert (Eds.), Triangulating


Egbert, J. & Baker, P. (2016). Research synthesis. In P. Baker & J. Egbert (Eds.), Triangulating


Biber, D., & Egbert, J.. (2016). Towards a user-based taxonomy of web registers. In Christoph

Schubert & Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Eds.), Variational Text Linguistics:

Revisiting Register in English, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Biber, D., Egbert, J., Gray, B., Oppliger, R., & Szmrecsanyi, B. (2016). Variationist versus text-

linguistic approaches to grammatical change in English: Nominal modifiers of head nouns.

In Kyto, M. & Paivi, P (Eds.), Handbook of English historical linguistics, Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Egbert, J., Staples, S., & Biber, D. (2015). Quantitative corpus research. In James Dean Brown

and Christine Coombe (Eds.), The Cambridge guide to research in language teaching and

learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

LaFlair, G., Egbert, J. & Plonsky, L. (2015). Bootstrapping. In Luke Plonsky (Ed.), Advancing

quantitative methods in second language research, London: Routledge.

Staples, S., Egbert, J., Biber, D., & Conrad, S. (2015). Register variation: A corpus approach. In

Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton (Eds.), The handbook of

discourse analysis, Oxford: Blackwell.


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Conference Proceedings

Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2013). Developing a user-based method of web register

classification. In S. Evert, E. Stemle, and P. Rayson (eds.), Proceedings of the 8 th

Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8) @Corpus Linguistics 2013, pp. 16-23.

Working Papers

LaFlair, G.T., Staples, S., & Egbert, J. (2015). Variability in the MELAB speaking task:

Investigating linguistic characteristics of test taker performances in relation to

rater severity and score. CaMLA Working Papers.

Book reviews

Egbert, J. (2016). Review of the book Linguistic variation in research articles: When

discipline tells only part of the story. English for Specific Purposes Journal .

Egbert, J. (2015). Review of the book Digital literary studies: Corpus approaches to

poetry, prose, and drama. ICAME Journal, 39(1): 152 – 156.

Egbert, J. (2014). Review of the book Corpus stylistics and Dickens’s fiction. Corpora ,

9(2), 273-276.

Egbert, J. (2012). Review of the book Genres on the web: Computational models and

empirical studies. Corpora, 7(1), 109 – 112.

Amicus briefs

Brief for Clark D. Cunningham and Jesse Egbert as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither

Party, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Re. Donald J.

Trump on appeal from the United States District Court for the District of

Maryland at Greenbelt.

Brief for Clark D. Cunningham and Jesse Egbert as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither

Party, The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in

Richard Blumenthal et al. v. Donald J. Trump on appeal from the United States

District Court for the District of Columbia.

Presentations

Academic conferences Egbert, J., Wizner, S., Keller, D., Biber, D. & Baker, P. (2019) “ Identifying and

describing functional units of conversational discourse in the BNC Spoken 2014”. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2019. Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Egbert, J. & Baker, P. (2019). “Triangulating Corpus Linguistics with other Linguistic

Research Methods”. Panel presented at Corpus Linguistics 2019. Cardiff, Wales, UK.


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Gray, B., Staples, S., Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2019). “Developmental Complexity in

BAWE: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers”. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2019. Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Laippala, V. Biber, D., Egbert, J., Kyröläinen, A. & Ginter, F. (2019). “Generating

online text types: A cluster analysis of predicted document embeddings ”. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2019. Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Egbert, J., Hashimoto, B. & Pinchbeck, G. (2019). “Toward a new measure of text

readability" Paper to be presented at the conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics 2019. Atlanta, GA.

Egbert, J., & Biber, D. (2018). “Incorporating text dispersion into keyword analysis"

Paper to be presented at the conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics 2018. Atlanta, GA.

Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Keller, D. (2018). “Reconceptualizing register as a continuous

construct." Paper to be presented at the conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics 2018. Atlanta, GA.

Egbert, J. & Mahlberg, M. (2017). “Fiction—One register or two?: Narrative and

fictional speech in Dickens’s novels." Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2017. Birmingham, UK.

Gray, B. & Egbert, J. (2017). “Exploring methods for evaluating corpus

representativeness.” Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2017. Birmingham, UK. Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2016). “Do all roads lead to Rome?: Modeling register variation

with factor analysis and discriminant analysis." Paper presented at the conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics 2016. Ames, IA.

Biber, D. & Egbert, J. (2016). “Register variation on the searchable web: A Multi -

Dimensional analysis." Paper presented at the conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics 2016. Ames, IA.

Egbert, J. Gray, B. & Biber, D. (2016). “Empirical corpus linguistics: The state of the

field." Paper presented at the conference of the American Association of Corpus Linguistics 2016. Ames, IA.

Decker, L., Cox, T. & Egbert, J. (2016). “Effects of changing TOEFL cut-off scores: The

impact of raising the bar." Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics 2016. Orlando, FL.

Baker, P. & Egbert, J. (2015). “Triangulating methodological approaches”. Panel

presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015. Lancaster, UK. Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Davies, M. (2015). “A linguistic taxonomy of registers on the

searchable web: Distribution, linguistic descriptions, and automatic register identification”. Panel presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015. Lancaster, UK.

Staples, S., Egbert, J. & LaFlair, G. (2015). “A Multi-Dimensional Comparison of Oral

Proficiency Interviews to Conversation, Academic and Professional Spoken Registers”. Paper presented at Corpus Linguistics 2015. Lancaster, UK.

Davies, M. & Egbert, J. (2015). “A Large Corpus-based Study of the Historical

Development of [Noun+Noun] Sequences in American English”. Paper presented at the Studies in the History of the English Language Conference, Vancouver, Canada.


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Egbert, J., Biber, D., & Szmrecsanyi, B. (2015). “The Evolution of the English Genitive:

Predicting Diachronic Change in Noun Modifier Use”. Paper presented at the Studies in the History of the English Language Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Biber, D., Egbert, J. & Terblanche, L. (2014). “Dimensions of Variation in English Web

Registers”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Flagstaff, AZ.

Staples, S., Egbert, J. & LaFlair, G. (2014). “Comparing Oral Proficiency Interviews to

Academic and Professional Spoken Registers”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Flagstaff, AZ.

Gray, B., Qian, M., & Egbert, J. (2014). “Internal Representativeness and Specialized

Corpora: The Influence of Topic on the Stability of Linguistic Findings in a Disciplinary Writing Corpus”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Flagstaff, AZ.

Egbert, J. & Plonsky, L. (2014). “The Linguistic and Stylistic Features of SLA

Conference Abstract and Their Relationship to Ratings”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland.

Plonsky, L., Egbert, J., & LaFlair, G. (2014). “Bootstrapped t-tests and ANOVAs: Using

Data Reanalysis to Assess Their Potential in L2 Research”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Portland.

Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2013). “Developing a User-based Method of Web Register

Classification”. Paper presented at the annual Web as Corpus workshop @Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster, UK.

Egbert, J. (2013). “Towards a Linguistic Taxonomy of English Academic Writing”.

Paper presented at the University of Utah Student Conference in Linguistics, Salt Lake City.

Egbert, J. (2013). “Student Perceptions of Stylistic Variation in Introductory University

Textbooks”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, San Diego.

Egbert, J. & Biber, D. (2012). “Style and Authorship in Nineteenth Century Fiction: A

Multi-Dimensional Analysis”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Boston.

LaFlair, G., Egbert, J., & Miller, D. (2012). “Structural Compression and Elaboration

across Levels of ESL Reading Textbook Series”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, Boston.

Egbert, J. & LaFlair, G. (2012). “Grammatical Complexity in ESL Reading Textbooks”.

Paper presented at the Northern Arizona Regional TESOL conference, Flagstaff. Staples, S., Egbert, J. & Laird, J. (2011). “Variability of Lexical Bundles in the TOEFL

iBT”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Atlanta.

Prince, D., Egbert, J., Kim, Y. & Laird, J. (2011). “Using Corpus Tools and Websites to

Enhance the Language Classroom”. Paper presented at the annual convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, New Orleans.


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Gray, B., Smart, J., Egbert, J., Al-Surmi, M. & Poltavtchenko, E. (2010). “Corpus Linguistics”. Advocacy Roundtable presentation at the annual conference o f the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Phoenix.

Prince, D., Egbert, J., Kim, Y. & Laird, J. (2010). “Using Corpus Tools and Findings to

Enhance Your Classroom”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Phoenix.

Egbert, J. (2009). “Intergenerational Language Attitudes and Vitality: The Navajo

Language Shift”. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American

Association for Applied Linguistics, Denver.

Egbert, J. (2009). “The Navajo Language Shift”. Paper presented at the annual Utah

Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salt Lake City.

Invited talks and workshops

LaFlair, G.T., Egbert, J. & Staples, S. (2019). “Uncovering pragmatic competence in

speaking through corpus-based register analysis”. Presentation in Invited

Colloquium on “Assessing meaning-making ability in context: Exploring register-

specific pragmatic competence” at American Association for Applied Linguistics

2016. Orlando, FL.

Egbert, J. (2018). Answering big questions in applied linguistics: Triangulating corpus

linguistics with other research methods. Invited plenary at the Intercâmbio de

Pesquisas em Linguística Aplicada, São Paulo, Brazil.

Egbert, J. (2018). Mixed effects models for applied linguistics research. Invited

workshop at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Egbert, J. (2018). Applying corpus linguistics. Invited talk given as part of the ESL GO!

Speaker Series, Purdue University.

Gray, B., Staples, S., & Egbert, J. (2017). Complexity in Writing Development:

Untangling Two Approaches to Measuring Grammatical Complexity. Pre -

conference workshop for AACL 2017. Atlanta, GA.

Egbert, J. (2018). Applying linguistics. Opening Address given at the Mini-AZ TESOL

Conference, Northern Arizona University.

Egbert, J. (2018). Frequency is overrated: Using text dispersion to measure word

importance. Invited talk in the Center for Corpus Research , University of

Birmingham, UK.

Egbert, J. (2018). Invited panelist on the Linguist’s Panel at the Corpus Linguistics and

the Law Symposium, Brigham Young University.


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Egbert, J. (2018). Meaningful levels of analysis in (corpus) linguistics. Invited talk given

at the 2018 Public Workshop of the Decadal Survey on Social and Behavioral

Sciences for National Security. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and

Medicine. Washington D.C.

Gray, B., Staples, S., & Egbert, J. (2017). Complexity in Writing Development:

Untangling Two Approaches to Measuring Grammatical Complexity. Pre-

conference workshop for Corpus Linguistics 2017. Birmingham, UK.

Egbert, J. (2016). An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Invited lecture given to ENG

308: Introduction to Linguistics, Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, AZ.

Egbert, J. (2016). The Grammar Project: An Introduction and an Invitation. Invited talk

given to the Graduate Association for Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona

University. Flagstaff, AZ.

Egbert, J. (2016). If olive oil is made of olives, then what’s baby oi l made of? The

semantics of noun + noun sequences. Invited talk given at the Program of Intensive

English, Northern Arizona University. Flagstaff, AZ.

Egbert, J. (2016). Regular Expressions for Advanced Corpus Queries. Invited three -hour

pre-conference workshop for attendees at the conference of the American

Association of Corpus Linguistics. Ames, IA.

Egbert, J. (2016). Corpus Linguistics: A Hands-on Introduction. Invited three-hour

workshop for undergraduate students at Iowa State University. Ames, IA.

Egbert, J. (2016). “The Future of Corpus Linguistics”. Invited mini-lecture for the CASS

Queen’s Anniversary Prize Celebration. Lancaster, UK . Incorporated into Tony

McEnery’s MOOC

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/users/moocs/corpus/public/anniversary/future.h tm

Egbert, J. (2016). “Connecting Corpus linguistics and Language Assessment”. Discussant

for Invited Colloquium at American Association for Applied Linguistics 2016.

Orlando, FL.

Egbert, J. (2016). “Answering Big Questions in Linguistics: Triangulating Corpus

Linguistics with Other Research Methods”. Invited talk given at the College of

Humanities Colloquium. Provo, UT.

Egbert, J. (2015). “Mixed Effects Models”. Workshop given at the Germanic Linguistics

Annual Conference, Provo, UT.

Egbert, J. (2015). “Going Beyond p-values: Making Your Statistical Methods More

Rigorous and Robust”. Workshop given at the Germanic Linguistics Annual

Conference, Provo, UT.


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LaFlair, G. & Egbert, J. “Introduction to Graphics with R”. Workshop offered at the

annual conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics, Flagstaff, September 2014.

Egbert, J. (2012). “Multi-dimensional Analysis: An Introduction”. Session taught in the

Birmingham/Melbourne Summer School in Applied Linguistics. Birmingham, UK. Egbert, J. (2012). “Historical Change in Genitive and Noun-Noun Use across Registers”.

Paper presented in the English Department Faculty Seminar, University of Birmingham.

Egbert, J. (2012). “Grammatical Complexity in EAP Reading Textbooks”. Public talk in

the English Department Postgraduate Speaker Series, University of Birmingham.

Awards and Honors

2012, 2018

2017

2015

2014

2013

2011 – 2012

2011

2009

2007 – 2009

2008

North America Travel Fund, U. of Birmingham

NAU Faculty Grant

BYU College of Humanities Research Grant

Spaan Research Grant, CaMLA (with Geoff LaFlair &

Shelley Staples)

Regents’ Graduate Research Grant

Applied Linguistics Doctoral Fellowship

NAU Vice President for Research Travel Award

NAU Graduate Student Organization Travel Award

BYU Graduation Speaker

Highest GPA Award, BYU Linguistics Department

BYU College of Humanities Dean’s List

Brigham Young Full Tuition Scholarship

BYU Honors Thesis Research Award

Grants

Internal

2017

2015

2013

NAU Faculty Grant

BYU College of Humanities Research Grant

Regents’ Graduate Research Grant


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2011 – 2012

2011

2011

External

2018

2017

2017

2016

Applied Linguistics Doctoral Fellowship

NAU Vice President for Research Travel Award

NAU Graduate Student Organization Travel Award

Designing utterances for chatbots in the tourism

domain: A register-based approach. National Science

Foundation. Co-PI with Marco Gerosa. $515,928.

Under review.

Designing utterances for chatbots in the tourism

domain: A register-based approach. National Science

Foundation. Co-PI with Marco Gerosa. $515,928. Not

funded.

Assessing interactional competence in computer-

mediated settings across different registers. Educational

Testing Services. Co-PI with Okim Kang. $58,194.

Not funded.

Reconceptualizing the Construct of Register through

Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Documents on

the Open Web. National Science Foundation. Co-PI

with Douglas Biber & Shlomo Argamon. $1,001,404.

Not funded.

Service

University

2016 –

Department

2017 –

2016 –

2016 –

2016 – 2017

2015 – 2016

2015 – 2016

2015 – 2016

BA Undergraduate Studies Steering Committee

Graduate Studies Committee

PhD Applied Linguistics Admissions Committee

PhD Applied Linguistics Student Advisor

Undergraduate Studies Committee

Graduate Student Society Advisor

Linguistics BA Curriculum Committee

Linguistics BA Student Advisor

Chair

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees

Scott Stockton (co-chair with Randi Reppen)


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Committee member

Daniel Keller (co-chair with Vedran Dronjic)

Tyler True (co-chair with Doug Biber)

Brett Hashimoto (co-chair with Doug Biber)

Erin Schnur (2017)

Elnaz Kia (2018)

Roman Lesnov (2018)

David Tasker (2019)

Mohammad Al-Qurashi

Stacey Wizner

Shi Chen

Garrett Larson

MA Thesis Committees

Chair

Reader

External Examiner

Kyra Nelson (2016). Lexical Trends in Young Adult

Literature: A Corpus-Based Approach. [MA

Linguistics].

Sara Smith (2015). Botheration and Recognition of

Prescriptive Rules. [MA Linguistics]

Gyusuk Yang (2015). Grammatical Features of

Elaboration and Compression in Advanced ESL

Academic Writing. [MA TESOL]

Kyle Vanderniet (2015). Idioms as a Measure of

Proficiency. [MA Linguistics]

Mary Wright (2015). Pragmatic Quotation Use in

Online Yelp Reviews and its Connection to

Author Sentiment. [MA Linguistics]

Melissa Young (2015). The Vocabulary Research

Database: A Compilation of State-of-the-Art

Academic Vocabulary Research. [MA TESOL]

Ethan Lynn (2016). Getting All the Ducks in a Row:

Towards a Method for the Consolidation of

English Idioms. [MA TESOL]

Sara White (2017). Applying corpus-assisted critical

discourse analysis to an unrestricted corpus: A

case study in Indonesian and Malay. [MA

Linguistics]

Muhammad Ali (2018)

Shahla Qasim (2017)


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Sajid Ali (2016)

Musarrat Begum (2016)

Sajid Ahmed (2015)

Professional Service

General Editor – Register Studies

Editorial Board

Corpora

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Journal Article Referee

Applied Linguistics

Cognitive Science

Corpora

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America

English for Specific Purposes Journal

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Journal of English Linguistics

Journal of Second Language Writing

Jurimetrics

Language Learning

Language Resources and Evaluation

Linguistics

Modern Language Journal

Scientometrics

Scientific Study of Literature

Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International

Education

System

Text & Talk

TESOL Quarterly

Written Communication

Book Proposal/Manuscript Reviewer

Cambridge University Press

Routledge

Brill

Mouton de Gruyter

Wiley

Conference Program Committee Member


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Europhras 2017, 2019

9th Web as Corpus Workshop @ EACL 2014

American Association for Corpus Linguistics: 2016, 2018

Conference Abstract Reviewer

American Association of Applied Linguistics: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

American Association for Corpus Linguistics: 2016, 2018

Second Language Research Forum: 2019

Consultant – BYU Law and Corpus Linguistics Project, J. Reuben Clark Law School,

Brigham Young University

Professional Affiliations

American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL)

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Computer Skills

Programming for statistical computing and graphics (R, ggplot2)

Programming for text processing and linguistic analysis (Python, Perl, R)

Software for corpus-based analysis (MonoConc, AntConc, Wordsmith)

Software for statistical analysis (SPSS, SAS, RStudio, Amos)

Online course development and instruction (BlackBoard Learn)

Corpora Designed and Collected

IUT: Introductory University Textbooks

CORL: Corpus of the Rotuman Language

FABLE: Fiction of America and Britain from the Late Eighteen Hundreds

AWE: Academic Written English

Q+A: Question + Answer Forum corpus

CORE: Corpus of Online Registers of English

PDC: Presidential Debates Corpus


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Languages

Fijian (advanced)

Rotuman (advanced)

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