Publications

Publications are arranged under my research interests: genre and multimodality, text and discourse analysis, cleft constructions, contrastive rhetoric and instructions, and intonation. Creative writing is also included.

Genre and Multimodality
 

Presentation: Delin, J., Bateman, J., and Allen, P. (2000). Genre and Rhetoric in Illustrated Document Design. BAAL 2000: British Association for Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, September 7-9.

Presentation: Delin, J., Pleace, S., Bateman, J., and Allen, P. (2000). Design and Layout in Illustrated Documents: Towards a model of genre. InfoDesign2000: the fourth international conference of the Information Design Network and the Information Design Association. Coventry, 10-11 July, 2000. ppt slides

Published conference paper: Bateman, J., Delin, J., and Allen, P. (2000). Constraints on Layout in Multimodal Document Generation. INLG2000: The First International Natural Language Generation Conference, Workshop on Coherence in Generated Multimedia. Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, July 12 2000. 7-14. pdf slides pdf paper ppt slides

Published conference paper: Allen, P., Bateman, J., and Delin, J. (1999) Genre and layout design in multimodal documents: towards an empirical account. American Association for Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Using Layout for the Generation, Analysis, or Retrieval of Documents, Cape Cod, Autumn 1999. pdf paper zipped paper ps paper

Presentation:Delin, J. (1998). Language, Action, and Utterance Interpretation in the Step Aerobics Workout. Panel on Multimodality, Sociolinguistics Symposium 12, Institute of Education, London. March 25-28 1998.

Presentation:Bateman, J and Delin, J. (1998). The Role of Genre in Multimodal Document Layout. Paper presented to the Swedish Symposium on Multimodality, Lund, Sweden, October 16-17 1998.

 

Text and Discourse Analysis
 

Book: Delin, J. (2000) The Language of Everyday Life. August 2000. London: Sage.

Journal article: Delin, J. (2000) Keeping in Step: Task Structure, Discourse Structure, and Utterance Interpretation in the Step Aerobics Workout. Discourse Processes, 31, 1. word paper rtf paper

In edited collection: Delin, J. (2000) Plans but no Scripts: Planning, Discourse, and Interpretation in the Step Aerobics Workout. In: Eija Ventola (ed). Discourse and Community: Doing Functional Linguistics. Gunter Narr. 199-222. Please download both the pdf paper and the additional-pdf figures.

In edited collection: Delin, J. (1998) Facework and instructor goals in the Step Aerobics workout. In: Hunston, S. (ed.) British Studies in Applied Linguistics, 13: Language at Work. BAAL/Multilingual Matters. 56-71.rtf paper

Edited collection: Delin, J. and Oberlander, J. (1996) (eds) Language and Speech, special issue on Discourse and Syntax. Volume 39, 2-3, June-September 1996.

Edited collection: Caenepeel, M, J. Delin, L. Oversteegen, G. Redeker, and J. Sanders (1991) (eds) Proceedings of the Edinburgh Workshop on Discourse Coherence. Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, April 1991.

 

Cleft Constructions
 

Journal article: Delin, J. and Oberlander, J. (under review). Cleft constructions in context: some suggestions for research methodology. Submitted to Linguistics. Draft rtf

Presentation:Delin, J. (1999) The discourse functions of reverse wh-clefts. Paper presented at the Workshop on Discourse Function(s) of Cleft Sentences. Humboldt University, Berlin, October 1-3. slides

Journal article: Oberlander, J. and Delin, J. (1996) The function and interpretation of reverse wh-clefts in spoken discourse. Language and Speech, 39, 2-3, June-Sept 1996. Pages 183-225.

Journal article: Delin, J and Oberlander, J (1995) Syntactic constraints on discourse structure: the case of it-clefts. Linguistics, 33, 3. Also appears as CSRP 249, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex. pdf paper

Journal article: Delin, J (1995) Presupposition and shared knowledge in it-clefts. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10, 2, 97-120. pdf paper

Presentation: Delin, J. (1995) Syntactic Constraints on Discourse Structure. Invited paper, Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Newcastle, April 1995.

Technical report: Delin, J (1994) On Processing Clefts. Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, no. 50, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Stuttgart.

Journal article: Delin, J. (1992) Properties of It-Cleft Presupposition. Journal of Semantics, 9, 179-196. pdf paper ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J. (1992) Why Can't `It'be the Focus of an It-Cleft? Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Brighton Polytechnic, April 1992. In: Cahill, L.J and Coates, R A (eds) Sussex Papers in General and Computational Linguistics from the LAGB Conference at Brighton, 6-8 April 1992. CSRP 239, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex. pdf paper ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J (1992) Towards a Taxonomy of Copular Constructions. Arbeitspapiere de Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, no. 24, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Stuttgart.

Published conference paper: Delin, J. and Oberlander, J. (1992) Aspect-Switching and Subordination: The Role of It-clefts in Discourse. In: Coling 92: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Nantes, France, July 23-28. 281-286. pdf paper ps paper

In edited collection: Delin, J. (1991) Presupposition, it-clefts, and discourse. Paper presented at the ESPRIT Workshop on Discourse Coherence, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, April 1991.

Presentation: Delin, J. (1991) Accent Placement in`Focus-Presupposition' Constructions. Paper presented at the ESPRIT Workshop on Prosody, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 1991.

Published conference paper: Delin, J. and Oberlander, J. (1991) Clefts, aspectual class, and the structure of discourse. In: Proceedings of the Fall Symposium on Discourse Structure in Natural Language Understanding and Generation, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Asilomar, CA, November 1991. 15-20. pdf paper   ps paper

In edited collection: Delin, J (1991) Towards a model for generating cleft sentences. In: Verschueren, J (ed) Pragmatics at Issue. John Benjamins.

In edited collection: Delin, J (1991) Why Cleft? The functions of cleft constructions in discourse.In: Dols, F (ed) Pragmatic Grammar Components. Tilburg University Press.

Technical report: Delin, J (1991) Aspects of Cleft Constructions in Discourse Bericht no. 19, Arbeitspapiere des Sonderforschungsbereichs 340, IBM Deutschland GmbH, Stuttgart.

Presentation: Delin, J. (1990) Why Cleft? Choosing and Using Cleft Constructions in Discourse. Paper presented at the International Pragmatics Association Conference, Barcelona, July 9-13.

Published conference paper: Delin, J. (1990) A Multi-Level Account of Cleft Constructions in Discourse. Coling 90: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Helsinki, Finland.

Presentation: Delin, J. and Klein, E. (1990) Presuppositions of It-Clefts. Paper presented at the ESPRIT Workshop on Presupposition, Nijmegen, December 1990. pdf paper   ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1990) Accounting for Cleft Constructions in Discourse: A Multi-Layered Approach. Research Paper HCRC/RP-5, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh.

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1990) Accentual Focus in Cleft Constructions. Internal Research Series `Blue Book Note' No 1, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. pdf paper  ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1990) A Psychological Investigation of the Processing of Cleft Constructions. Internal research Series `Blue Book Note' No 2, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. pdf paper   ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1990) Focus in Cleft Constructions. Internal Research Series `Blue Book Note' No 5, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. pdf paper ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1990) Psychology of Clefts II: Methodology. Internal Research Series `Blue Book Note' No 6, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh. pdf paper ps paper

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1989) The Focus Structure of It-Clefts. Research Report RP-25, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh.

Technical report: Delin, J. L. (1989) Cleft Constructions in Discourse. PhD Thesis No. 34, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh.

 

Contrastive Rhetoric, Instructions
 

Journal article: Carroll, T. and Delin, J. (1998) Written Instructions in Japanese and English: A Comparative Analysis. Pragmatics, 8, 3, September 1998.

Presentation: Carroll, T. and Delin, J. (1998). Multimodal Variation in English and Japanese Instructional Manuals. Paper presented to the British Association for Japanese Studies, Cardiff, April 1-3 1998.

Journal article: Donia R. Scott, Judy Delin, and Anthony F. Hartley (1998) Identifying Congruent Pragmatic Relations in Procedural Texts. Languages in Contrast, 1, 1, 45-82. Amsterdam; John Benjamins.

Presentation: Murcia-Bielsa, S. and Delin, J. (1998). Factors in Syntactic Choice: Expressing Purpose and Direction in English and Spanish Instructions. Paper presented at the 25th International Systemic Functional Congress, Cardiff, Wales, 6-10 July 1998.

Journal article: Delin, J., A. Hartley, and D. Scott (1996) Towards a contrastive pragmatics: syntactic choice in English and French instructions. Language Sciences, 18, 3-4, pp897-931. Pergamon.

Published conference paper: Delin, J., D. Scott, and A. Hartley (1996) Language-Specific Mappings from Semantics to Syntax. In: Proceedings of Coling '96: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen, Denmark. 292-297.

Technical report: Delin, J., Scott, D.R. and Hartley, A. (1996) Pragmatic Congruence through Language-Specific Mappings from Semantics to Syntax. ITRI Technical Report ITRI-96-01, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton.

Presentation: Murcia-Bielsa, S. and Delin, J. (1995) Factors in Syntactic Choice: Expressing Purpose and Direction in English and Spanish Instructions. Paper presented at the First International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Brighton, April 1995.

Presentation: Delin, J, Hartley, A and Scott, D (1995) Getting at Pragmatic Distinctions: Contrastive Pragmatics in the Instructions Domain. Paper presented at the First International Conference in Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, University of Brighton, April 1995.

Technical report: Scott, D., J. Delin, A. Hartley, and S. Attwood (1995) Identifying Procedural Relations in Instructional Texts. Technical Report ITRI-95-18, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton.

Published conference paper: Delin, J., A. Hartley, C. Paris, D. Scott, and K Vander Linden (1994) Expressing procedural relationships in multilingual instructions. Proceedings of the 7th International Generation Workshop, Kennebunkport, Maine, June 1994. Also appears as Technical Report ITRI-94-2, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton.

Published conference paper: Delin, J., D. Scott, and T. Hartley (1993) Knowledge, Intention, Rhetoric: levels of variation in multilingual instructions. Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Intentionality and Structure in Discourse Relations, Ohio State University, June 1993. 7-10.

 

Intonation
 

Journal article: Delin, J and Zacharski, R. (1997) Pragmatic Determinants of Intonation Contours for Dialogue Systems. International Journal of Speech Technology, 1, 2. 109-120. ISSN 1381-2416

Presentation: Delin, J. and Zacharski, R. (1995) Pragmatic factors in the production of information contours for conversational systems. Paper presented at the American Voice Input/Output Society (AVIOS) Conference, San José September 1995.

In edited collection: Delin, J. and Zacharski, R. (1994) A computational model of information structure and pitch accent. In: Bosch, P. and van der Sandt, R. (eds) Focus and Natural Language Processing, Volume 1: Intonation and Syntax. Proceedings of the conference in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Semantics, Meinhard-Schwebda, Germany. Published as Working Paper 6 of the IBM Research Institute, Stuttgart, December 1994.

Technical report: Zacharski, R, Monaghan, A, Ladd, D.R., and Delin J (1992) BRIDGE: Basic Research on Intonation for Dialogue Generation. Technical Report, University of Edinburgh Department of Linguistics.

 

Creative
  Delin, J. (2000) Something to Suck. New Writing Scotland 18, the yearly anthology of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.