Benjamin Franklin’s English

Since 2015, I have been working on Benjamin Franklin’s English, with the aim of exploring the linguistic features of of 18th-century American English.

Presentations

• Iyeiri, Yoko. “Negation in Benjamin Franklin’s Writings: A Stylistic Analysis of his Autobiography and Letters”. The Fourth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (17-20 Sepember 2018), 19 September 2018, Takamatsu, Japan.

Publications

• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2018. “Negation in Benjamin Franklin’s Writings: A Stylistic Analysis of his Autobiography and Letters”, in Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018), Takamatsu, Japan, September 17-19, ed. Yukio Tono and Hitoshi Ishihara, pp. 178-183. (Downloadable PDF) Also downloadable at http://apcla.net/Proc.zip (large)