George L. Dillon

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 850 citations indexed

About

George L. Dillon is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, George L. Dillon has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 850 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Language and Linguistics and 5 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in George L. Dillon's work include Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers). George L. Dillon is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers) and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 papers). George L. Dillon collaborates with scholars based in United States. George L. Dillon's co-authors include Allan Megill, Linda Brodkey, B. McH., Donald N. McCloskey, John S. Nelson, Jacquelyn Schachter, Paul Chilton, Alan C. Purves, Linda Coleman and Jeanne Fahnestock and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

George L. Dillon

29 papers receiving 666 citations

Hit Papers

Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and litera... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Edited by Deborah Tannen. (Advances in discourse processes, 9.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982. Pp. xvii, 267. Cloth $29.50, paper $16.50.
    1984 616 citations George L. Dillon Language profile →

Peers

George L. Dillon
Francisco Gomes de Matos Brazil
Joan Swann United Kingdom
Garland D. Bills
David Graddol United Kingdom
Patricia Johnson United States
John Platt Australia
Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni France
Bernadette Malinowski Germany
Roger Fowler United Kingdom
Kathleen Warden Ferrara United States
Francisco Gomes de Matos Brazil
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George L. Dillon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dillon, George L.. (2010). Building Webcorpora of Academic Prose with BootCaT. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 26–31. 1 indexed citations
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Banyard, Philip, et al.. (2008). Personalising of learning. Final report. Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository). 2 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (2006). Corpus, creativity, cliché: Where statistics meet aesthetics. Journal of Literary Semantics. 35(2). 97–103. 4 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (2004). Montage/Critique: Another Way of Writing Social History. Postmodern Culture. 14(2). 8 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L., et al.. (2003). The Rhetoric of Online Conferencing. Academic exchange quarterly. 7(4). 273. 1 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L., et al.. (2003). How technology shapes orthography: are conventional spellings on the way out (again)?. Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository). 1 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (2000). Dada Photomontage and net.art Sitemaps. Postmodern Culture. 10(2). 1 indexed citations
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Warnick, Barbara, George L. Dillon, Craig A. Smith, et al.. (1995). Book reviews. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 81(4). 511–539. 1 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1988). A pragmatic theory of rhetoric. Journal of Pragmatics. 12(2). 280–282. 9 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1988). My Words of an Other. College English. 50(1). 63–63. 5 indexed citations
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McH., B., Linda Brodkey, George L. Dillon, et al.. (1988). Academic Writing as Social Practice. Poetics Today. 9(4). 884–884. 67 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1986). Rhetoric As Social Imagination: Explorations in the Interpersonal Function of Language. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 10 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1984). Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Edited by Deborah Tannen. (Advances in discourse processes, 9.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982. Pp. xvii, 267. Cloth $29.50, paper $16.50.. Language. 60(2). 441–444. 616 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dillon, George L.. (1982). Whorfian Stylistics. Journal of Literary Semantics. 11(2). 73–77. 1 indexed citations
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Chilton, Paul & George L. Dillon. (1980). Language Processing and the Reading of Literature. Toward a Model of Comprehension. The Modern Language Review. 75(2). 351–351. 6 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1976). CLAUSE, PAUSE, AND PUNCTUATION IN POETRY. Linguistics. 14(169). 9 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1976). Literary transformations and poetic word order. Poetics. 5(1). 1–22. 4 indexed citations
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Dillon, George L.. (1973). Perfect and other aspects in a case grammar of English. Journal of Linguistics. 9(2). 271–279. 5 indexed citations

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