Professor Dawn Archer

Research and Knowledge Exchange Coordinator for Languages, Information and Communications

My profile

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

May 2003 - Ph.D. Linguistics. The Role of the Question in Early Modern English Trial Proceedings: A corpus-based approach. Lancaster University.

Sept 1998 - M.A. (Distinction) Language Studies: Stylistics. Lancaster University.

Jun 1997 - B.A. Hons. (First Class) History and English Language. Lancaster University.

External examiner roles

External Examiner for

- Liverpool University, September 2012-August 2016

- Sheffield Hallam University (Work-based/independent studies) April 2008-2012.

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

Reviewer for Sage, Journal of Politeness Research, Journal of Pragmatics, International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Corpora, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Literary and Linguistic Computing, English Profile.

Consultancy and advisory roles

Invited Board Member, Historical Thesaurus of English (Nov 2017+)

Consultancy work with EIA Group, Manchester (responsible for research devel) (Jan 2014+)

Expert reviewer for external funding bodies

Reviewer for HERA – Humanities in the European Research Area - Joint Research Programme (JRP) “Cultural Encounters”, November 2012.

Reviewer for the Digging into Data Challenge, July-Sept 2011 (http://www.diggingintodata.org/).

Reviewer for Sage, Journal of Politeness Research, Journal of Pragmatics, International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, Corpora, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Literary and Linguistic Computing, English Profile.

Member of ESRC Peer Review College, 2010+

Visiting and honorary positions

Visiting Researcher, Lancaster University (Oct 2016+)

Editorial Board membership

Editor, Journal of Historical Pragmatics (April 2013+)

Personal website address

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=list_works&gmla=AJsN…

Get in touch

0161 247 3887
5.15 Grosvenor East Building

Projects

Influence/Persuasion-related talks/training

  • National  Negotiator Toolkit Project Update’. NW Police Negotiator Conference 6-7 Nov’19. Formby, Merseyside. Invited speaker.

  • ‘National Negotiator Training’ observation and assessment  (as part of National Negotiator Toolkit Project’. 10-22 March 19. Sedgley Park Police Training Centre, Manchester.

  • ‘National Negotiator Toolkit Project’. NW Police Negotiator Conference 7 Nov 18. Formby, Merseyside. Invited speaker.

  • Influence/Persuasion  Masterclass for MMU Future Research & KE leaders, 25 Jan’17, 19 Jan’18. Manchester Metropolitan University.

  • Police Negotiator Language-Based Training CPD, 23 June & 7 Sept’16, Manchester
    Metropolitan University.

  • Negotiating Influence. NW  (Police) Negotiator Conference, 30 Nov’15 (with R. Smithson and I.
    Kennedy).

  • ‘The Linguistics of Influence’. NW (Police) Negotiator Conference, 10/11 Nov’14. Manchester.
    Invited speaker (with R. Smithson).

Customer experience-related talks/training/interview

  • ‘We don’t always pick up on emotional messages’. Interview for People Management Magazine. Publ. 31
    May’16. See: http://www.cipd.co.uk/pm/peoplemanagement/ b/weblog/archive/2016/05/31/dawn-archer-we-don-t-always-pick-up-on-emotional-messages.aspx#
  • ‘Dealing with difficult conversations’. Peninsula Summer Conference, 13 June’15. Manchester. Invited speaker (with P. Jagodzi≈Ñski).
  • ‘Exploring Customer Experience: Train the Trainer workshop’, 26 Mar’15 (Media Factory, UCLan).
    Invited trainer (with P. Jagodziński).

Deception-related talks/master class

  • ‘Faking it: Tears of a Crime: Backstage Access to the Science  of Behaviour Analysis and Profiling’. Event for journalists, organized by Investigation Discovery (w. Lansley/Daynes). London. 1 Nov 2018.
  • ‘Introducing Forensic Linguistics: Focusing on Deception’. Sixth form talk, Sir Thomas Fremantle
    School, Buckingham, 24 April 2019.
  • ‘How to Spot a Lie’ and ‘Managing your Poker Face’, 11 Jun’14. Invited sessions for the UUK public
    engagement event at the Natural History Museum (London).
  • ‘Truth telling’ master class, 20 Oct’11 (with C. Lansley, Director of Emotional Intelligence Academy), in conjunction with the Journalism Leaders Programme, UCLAN.

Teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Pragmatics (unit leader)

Research Project leader, for MSc in Communication, Behaviour and Credibility Analysis

Interpersonal Communication CPD (unit leader)

Technology CPD (unit leader)

Subject areas

Corpus Linguistics, Interpersonal Communication, Pragmatics

Supervision

I am supervising numerous PhD topics, at MMU, relating to, e.g., communication and dementia, emotional intelligence, crisis negotiation, language and psychosis, shame, guilt, UK news reportage. I also supervise a number of influence or deception-related MA topics for EIA/MMU.

I’m also a consultant supervisor for one UCLan student, investigating anxiety/stress discourses in palliative care.

I am happy to supervise MA by Research students and PhD students undertaking projects that use pragmatics and/or corpus approaches to investigate forensic or professional contexts. I especially welcome projects that wish to explore (1) perceptions of credibility, (2) the use of face aggression or face enhancement, (3) deception, and its deception and/or (4) influence and negotiation tactics in these contexts.

POSTGRADUATE COMPLETIONS TO DATE (=9):

  • PhD - Hobbs 2010; Toddington 2015; Taylor 2018; Cook 2019.
  • MPhil (Research) - McGrath Wilkinson 2011; Prinou 2015.
  • Masters by Research - Davenport 2006; Fearon 2014; Smithson 2018.

Research outputs

I’m passionate about all things “communication”. I’m especially interested in the minutiae of human behaviour; how that behaviour might “pattern” within and across different activity types and cultures, in respect to linguistic and paralinguistic features; and its potential consequence(s) for effective communication.

My research specialisms include corpus linguistics, pragmatics, forensic linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis.

My recent work investigates the linguistic performance of emotion, credibility and deception in a range of contexts (public sector, commercial and professional). This includes work with the EIA Group (inc. in an airport context), my work on the “Faking It: Tears of a Crime” series (aired on Investigation Discovery and Quest Red) and my work with (UK) police crisis negotiators.

This often boils down to paying close attention to the pragmatic/interactive features of language use. This includes - but is not limited to - speech acts (i.e., what people are seeking to “do” by choosing one communicative structure over another); the “fit” (or lack of) between questions and answers; people’s attention to “facework” (i.e., relational work; especially im/politeness and verbal aggression); and the role played by individual reality paradigms when communicating (and mis-communicating).

My previous research has:

  • Led to the development of pragmatic annotation schemes.
  • Involved the development of corpus linguistic tools such as the VARD (a spelling-variant detector) and a historical semantic tagger (based on Wmatrix), with colleagues from Lancaster University.

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Archer, D. (2016) What's in a word-list?: Investigating word frequency and keyword extraction.

    Archer, D.E., Aijmer, K., Wichmann, A. (2012) Pragmatics: An Advanced Resource Book. Routldedge.

    Archer, D., Grundy, P. (2011) The Pragmatics Reader.

    Archer, D. (2009) What's in a Word-list? Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..

    Wilson, A., Archer, D., Rayson, P. (2006) Corpus Linguistics Around the World. Rodopi.

    Archer, D.E. (2005) Questions and Answers in the English Courtroom (1640-1760): A Sociopragmatic Analysis. John Benjamins.

  • Chapters in books

    Archer, D., Jagodziński, P., Jagodziński, R. (2021) 'Activity Types and Genres.' In Haugh, M., Kadar, D.Z., Terkourafi, M. (ed.) Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 206-226.

    Archer, D., Todd, M. (2020) 'Police crisis negotiation: An assessment of existing models.' In Coulthard, M., May, A., Sousa-Silva, R. (ed.) Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. Routledge,

    Archer, D., Findlay, A. (2020) 'Keywords that characterise Shakespeare’s (anti)heroes and villains.' In Jonsson, E., Larsson, T. (ed.) Voices of the Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 31-46.

    Archer, D., Grainger, K., Jagozinski, P. (2020) 'Introduction: Politeness in Professional Contexts.' In Archer, D., Grainger, K., Jagodzinski, P. (ed.) Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins,

    Archer, D. (2020) 'The value of facework in crisis negotiation: with a focus on barricade situations.' In Archer, D., Grainger, K., Jagodzinski, P. (ed.) Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins,

    Archer, D. (2020) 'Chapter 13. The value of facework in crisis negotiation.' Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 299-322.

    Archer, D., Grainger, K., Jagodziński, P. (2020) 'Chapter 1. Introduction.' Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 1-22.

    Archer, D., Lansley, C., Garner, A. (2020) 'Chapter 12. Keeping airports safe.' Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 273-297.

    Archer, D., Lansley, C., Garner, A. (2020) 'Keeping airports safe: the value of small talk.' In Archer, D., Grainger, K., Jagodzinski, P. (ed.) Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins,

    Jagodzinski, P. (2020) 'Towards folk pragmatics of call centre service encounters.' Politeness in Professional Contexts. John Benjamins,

    Archer, D., Lansley, C., Garner, A. (2020) 'Keeping airports safe: The value of small talk.' Pragmatics and Beyond New Series. pp. 273-297.

    Archer, D., Lansley, C., Garner, A. (2019) 'The value of linguistics in assessing potential threats in an airport setting.' The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict. pp. 454-471.

    Archer, D.E., Smthson, R., Kennedy, I. (2018) 'Achieving influence through negotiation: An argument for developing pragmatic awareness.' In Kurzon, D., Krykastovsky, B. (ed.) Legal Pragmatics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 181-202.

    Archer, D., Culpeper, J. (2018) 'Corpus annotation.' Methods in Pragmatics. pp. 495-525.

    Archer, D.E., Culpeper, J. (2018) 'Corpus Annotation.' In Jucker, A.H., Schneider, K.P., Bublitz, W. (ed.) Methods in Pragmatics. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 493-522.

    Culpeper, J., Archer, D.E. (2018) 'The History of Spelling.' In Culpeper, J., Kerswill, P., Wodak, R., McEnery, T., Katamba, F. (ed.) English language: description, variation and context, Second Edition. Palgrave, pp. 186-199.

    Archer, D., Smithson, R., Kennedy, I. (2018) 'An argument for developing pragmatic awareness achieving influence through negotiation.' Pragmatics and Beyond New Series. pp. 181-201.

    Archer, D.E. (2017) 'Impoliteness in legal settings.' In Culpeper, J., Haugh, M., Kadar, D. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. Palgrave Macmillan,

    Archer, D. (2017) '(Im)politeness in legal settings.' The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness. pp. 713-737.

    Archer, D.E. (2017) 'Politeness.' In Barron, A., Yueguo, G., Steen, G. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. Routledge, pp. 384-398.

    Archer, D. (2016) 'Promoting the wider use of word frequency and keyword extraction techniques.' What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. pp. 159-161.

    Archer, D. (2016) 'Does frequency really matter?.' What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. pp. 1-15.

    Archer, D., Culpeper, J., Rayson, P. (2016) 'Love - 'a familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies.' What's in a Word-list?: Investigating Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction. pp. 137-157.

    Archer, D.E. (2016) 'Data mining and word frequency analysis.' In Griffin, G. (ed.) Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 72-92.

    Archer, D.E. (2014) 'Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS: the possibilities, the problems and potential solutions.' In Taavitsainen, I., Jucker, A.H., Tuominen, J. (ed.) Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics. John Benjamins, pp. 277-301.

    Archer, D.E. (2013) 'Tracing (and tagging!) language features in the historical English courtroom (1649-1856).' In Poppi, F., Cheng, W. (ed.) The three waves of globalization: Winds of change in Professional, Institutional and Academic Genres. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 2-22.

    Archer, D.E. (2013) 'Tracing the crime narratives within the Palmer Trial (1856): From the lawyer’s opening speeches to the judge’s summing up.' In Heffer, C., Rock, F., Conley, J. (ed.) Legal-Lay Communication: Textual Travels in the Legal Process. Oxford University Press, pp. 168-186.

    Archer, D.E. (2012) 'Pragmatics and Discourse in the Early Modern English Period.' In Bergs, A., Brinton, L. (ed.) English Historical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 652-667.

    Archer, D.E. (2012) 'Assessing Garrow’s aggressive questioning style.' In Mazzon, G. (ed.) English Historical Dialogue Studies. FrancoAngeli, pp. 301-320.

    Archer, D.E. (2012) 'Data retrieval in a diachronic context: the case of the historical English courtroom.' In Nevalainen, T., Traugott, E.C. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of English. Oxford University Press,

    Archer, D.E. (2012) 'Corpus annotation: a welcome addition or an interpretation too far?.' In Tyrkkö, J., Kipiö, M., Nevalainen, T., Rissanen, M. (ed.) Outposts of Historical Corpus Linguistics: From the Helsinki Corpus to a Proliferation of Resources. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English eSeries,

    Archer, D.E. (2011) 'Theory and Practice in Pragmatics.' Pragmatics Reader. Routledge,

    Archer, D. (2010) 'Speech Acts.' Historical Pragmatics. pp. 379-418.

    Archer, D. (2010) 'The historical courtroom: A diachronic investigation of English courtroom practice.' The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. pp. 185-198.

    Archer, D.E., Bousfield, D. (2010) '“See better, Lear”? See Lear better! A corpus-based pragma-stylistic investigation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.' In McIntyre, D., Busse, B. (ed.) Language and Style. Palgrave, pp. 183-203.

    Archer, D.E. (2010) 'A diachronic investigation of English Courtroom Practice.' In Coulthard, M., Johnson, A. (ed.) A Handbook of Forensic Linguistics. Routledge, pp. 185-198.

    Archer, D.E. (2010) 'The History of Speech Acts.' Handbook of Historical Pragmatics. John Benjamins,

    Archer, D.E., Culpeper, J., Rayson, P. (2009) 'Love – ‘a familiar of a devil’? An Exploration of Key Domains in Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies.' What’s in a word-list? Investigating word frequency and keyword extraction. Ashgate, pp. 137-158.

    Archer, D.E. (2009) 'Does Frequency Really Matter?.' In Archer, D. (ed.) What’s in a word-list? Investigating word frequency and keyword extraction. Ashgate, pp. 1-16.

    Culpeper, J., Archer, D. (2009) 'Is English spelling a problem? Can it easily be fixed?.' In Culpeper, J., Katamba, F., Kerswill, P., Wodak, R. (ed.) English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave, pp. 244-258.

    Archer, D.E. (2009) 'Promoting the Wider Use of Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction Techniques.' In Archer, D. (ed.) What’s in a word-list? Investigating word frequency and keyword extraction. Ashgate, pp. 159-162.

    Archer, D.E. (2008) 'Verbal aggression and impoliteness: related or synonymous?.' In Bousfield, D., Locher, M. (ed.) Impoliteness in language. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 181-207.

    Rayson, P., Archer, D., Baron, A., Smith, N. (2008) 'Travelling Through Time with Corpus Annotation Software.' Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications - State of the Art. PALC 2007. Peter Lang, pp. 29-46.

    Archer, D.E. (2008) 'Pragmatic annotation.' In Lüdeling, A., Kytö, M. (ed.) Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 613-641.

    Culpeper, J., Archer, D. (2008) 'Requests and directness in Early Modern English trial proceedings and play-texts, 1640-1760.' In Jucker, A.H., Taavitsainen, I. (ed.) Speech Acts in the History of English. John Benjamins, pp. 45-84.

    Archer, D.E. (2007) 'Developing a more detailed picture of the Early Modern English courtroom: Data and methodological issues facing historical pragmatics.' In Fitzmaurice, S., Taavitsainen, I. (ed.) Methods in Historical Pragmatics. Recovering speaker meaning and reader inference. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 185-218.

    Archer, D.E. (2007) 'Computer-Assisted Literary Stylistics: The State of the Field.' In Sockwell, P. (ed.) Contemporary Stylistics. Continuum, pp. 244-256.

    Archer, D.E. (2006) 'Tracing the development of “advocacy” in two nineteenth century English trials.' In Dossena, M., Taavitsainen, I. (ed.) Diachronic Perspectives on Domain-Specific English. Peter Lang, pp. 41-68.

    Archer, D.E., Culpeper, J. (2003) 'Sociopragmatic annotation: New directions and possibilities in historical corpus linguistics.' In Wilson, A., Rayson, P., McEnery, T. (ed.) Corpus Linguistics by the Lune: Studies in honour of Geoffrey Leech. Peter Lang, pp. 37-58.

  • Reports

    Archer, D., Stott, P. (2020) Argument for a Language-based ‘Negotiator’s Toolkit’. Manchester Metropolitan University.

    Archer, D., Delgaram-Nejad, O. Hansard Report (HaRe). Hansard.

    Lansley, C., Garner, A., Archer, D.E., Dimu, R., Blanariu, C., Losnita, S. (2017) Observe, Target, Engage, Respond (OTER): High-stake behaviour analysis using an integrated, scientific approach within an airport context. White Paper Series: EIA/SRI/OTP.

    Lansley, C., Garner, A., Archer, D.E., Losni, S. (2016) The impact of SCAnR training for Air Marshals to increase accuracy of real-time lie/truth decisions.. EIA Group/SRI.

  • Journal articles

    Delgaram-Nejad, O., Archer, D., Chatzidamianos, G., Robinson, L., Bartha, A. (2023) 'The DAIS-C: a small, specialised, spoken, schizophrenia corpus.' Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3(3)

    Delgaram-Nejad, O., Chatzidamianos, G., Archer, D., Bartha, A., Robinson, L. (2022) 'A tutorial on norming linguistic stimuli for clinical populations.' Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2(3) pp. 100022-100022.

    McIntyre, D., Archer, D. (2022) 'A corpus-based approach to mind style.' Journal of Literary Semantics, 51(1) pp. 167-182.

    Delgaram-Nejad, O., Chatzidamianos, G., Archer, D., Larner, S. (2021) 'What is linguistics creativity in schizophrenia?.' Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 11(2) pp. 194-216.

    Chatzidamianos, G., Burns, D., Andriopoulou, P., Archer, D., du Feu, M. (2021) 'The challenges and facilitators to successful translation and adaptation of written self-report psychological measures into sign languages: a systematic review.' Psychological Assessment, 33(11) pp. 1100-1124.

    Archer, D., Gillings, M. (2020) 'Depictions of deception: A corpus-based analysis of five Shakespearean characters.' Language and Literature, 29(3) pp. 246-274.

    Culpeper, J., Archer, D. (2020) 'Shakespeare’s Language: Styles and meanings via the computer.' Language and Literature, 29(3) pp. 191-202.

    Murphy, S., Archer, D., Demmen, J. (2020) 'Mapping the links between gender, status and genre in Shakespeare’s plays.' Language and Literature, 29(3) pp. 223-245.

    Archer, D. (2020) 'Understanding questions and answers in context: An argument for multi-channel analysis.' Scandinavian Studies in Language, 11(1) pp. 196-213.

    Madrigal-Garcia, M.I., Archer, D., Singer, M., Rodrigues, M., Shenfield, A., Moreno-Cuesta, J. (2020) 'Do Temporal Changes in Facial Expressions Help Identify Patients at Risk of Deterioration in Hospital Wards? A Post Hoc Analysis of the Visual Early Warning Score Study.' Critical Care Explorations, 2(5) pp. e0115-e0115.

    Archer, D.E. (2019) 'Impression management in the Early Modern English courtroom.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 19(2) pp. 205-222.

    Jagodzinski, P., Archer, D.E. (2018) 'Co-creating customer experience through call centre interaction: Interactional achievement and professional face.' Journal of Politeness Research, 14(2) pp. 257-277.

    Archer, D.E., Jagodzinski, P. (2018) 'Applying (im)politeness and facework research to professional settings: An introduction.' Journal of Politeness Research, 14(2) pp. 167-178.

    Archer, D.E., Willcox, P. (2018) 'The faces at play in performance appraisals: With a focus upon a UK retail organization.' Journal of Politeness Research, 14(2) pp. 167-192.

    Archer, D.E. (2018) 'Negotiating difference in political contexts: An exploration of Hansard.' Language Sciences, 68pp. 22-41.

    Culpeper, J., Archer, D.E., Findlay, A., Thelwall, M. (2018) 'John Webster, the dark and violent playwright?.' ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 31(3) pp. 201-210.

    Archer, D.E. (2018) 'Context and historical (socio-)pragmatics 20 years on.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 18(2) pp. 315-336.

    Archer, D. (2017) 'Mapping Hansard impression management strategies through time and space.' Studia Neophilologica, 89(sup1) pp. 5-20.

    Archer, D.E., Malory, B. (2017) 'Tracing facework over time using semi-automated methods.' International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 22(1) pp. 27-56.

    Archer, D. (2015) 'Slurs, insults, (backhanded) compliments and other strategic facework moves.' Language Sciences, 52pp. 82-97.

    Archer, D., Jagodziński, P. (2015) 'Call centre interaction: A case of sanctioned face attack?.' Journal of Pragmatics, 76pp. 46-66.

    Archer, D.E., Lansley, C. (2015) 'Public appeals, news interviews and crocodile tears: An argument for a multi-channel annotation scheme.' Corpora, 10(2) pp. 231-258.

    Archer, D.E., Kyto, M., Baron, A., Rayson, P. (2015) 'Guidelines for normalising Early Modern English corpora: Decisions and justifications.' ICAME Journal, 39(1) pp. 5-24.

    Archer, D. (2014) 'Historical pragmatics: Evidence from the Old Bailey.' Transactions of the Philological Society, 112(2) pp. 259-277.

    Archer, D., Williams, C. (2013) 'Constructing a shared history, space and destiny: The children's reader Udmurtia Forever with Russia.' Pragmatics and Society, 4(2) pp. 200-220.

    Archer, D., Williams, C., Fryer, P. (2013) 'A linguistic/discursive space for all? Perspectives on minority languages and identity across Europe.' Pragmatics and Society, 4(2) pp. 127-136.

    Archer, D.E. (2013) 'Constructing the “ethnic other” in two history school books: re- colonialisation (Udmurtia) Versus de-colonialisation (Tatarstan).' East-West,

    Archer, D. (2011) 'Cross-examining lawyers, facework and the adversarial courtroom.' Journal of Pragmatics, 43(13) pp. 3216-3230.

    Archer, D. (2011) 'Facework and im/politeness across legal contexts: An introduction.' Journal of Politeness Research, 7(1) pp. 1-19.

    Archer, D.E. (2011) 'Libeling Oscar Wilde: The Case of Regina vs. John Sholto Douglas.' Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture, 7(1) pp. 73-99.

    McIntyre, D., Archer, D. (2010) 'A corpus-based approach to mind style.' Journal of Literary Semantics, 39(2) pp. 167-182.

    Archer, D.E., Culpeper, J. (2009) 'Identifying key socio-pragmatic usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640-1760): An empirical approach via corpus annotation.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics, pp. 286-309.

    Baron, A., Rayson, P., Archer, D. (2009) 'Word frequency and key word statistics in historical corpus linguistics.' International Journal of English Studies, 29(1) pp. 41-68.

    Pilz, T., Ernst-Gerlach, A., Kempken, S., Rayson, P., Archer, D. (2008) 'The identification of spelling variants in english and german historical texts: Manual or automatic?.' Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(1) pp. 65-72.

    Archer, D. (2008) 'Digital humanities 2006: When two became many.' Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(1) pp. 103-108.

    Archer, D. (2006) '(re)initiating strategies: Judges and defendants in early modern english courtrooms.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 7(2) pp. 181-211.

    Piao, S.S., Rayson, P., Archer, D., McEnery, T. (2005) 'Comparing and combining a semantic tagger and a statistical tool for MWE extraction.' Computer Speech and Language, 19(4) pp. 378-397.

    Deegan, M., Short, H., Archer, D.E., Baker, P., McEnery, T., Rayson, P. (2004) 'Computational Linguistics Meets Metadata, or the Automatic Extraction of Key Words from Full Text Content.' RLG Diginews, 8(2)

    Short, M., Archer, D. (2003) 'Designing a world-wide web-based stylistics course and investigating its effectiveness.' Style, 37(1) pp. 27-64.

    Archer, D. (2002) '“can innocent people be guilty?”: A sociopragmatic analysis of examination transcripts fromthe salemw itchcraft trials.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 3(1) pp. 1-30.

  • Conference papers

    Piao, S., Rayson, P., Archer, D.E., Bianchi, F., Dayrell, C., El-Haj, M., Jiménez, R.M., Knight, D., Křen, M., Löfberg, L., Nawab, R.M.A., Shafi, J., Teh, P.L., Mudraya, O. (2016) 'Lexical Coverage Evaluation of Large-scale Multilingual Semantic Lexicons..' In Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Slovenia,

    Baron, A., Rayson, P., Archer, D.E. (2009) 'Automatic Standardization of Spelling for Historical Text Mining.' In Digital Humanities 2009. University of Maryland, USA, 22/6/2009 - 25/6/2009. Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH),

    Archer, D.E., Kilpatrick, A., Day, H. (2008) 'English Language Studies Initiative for Employability (ELSIE): The benefits of embedding employability into a subject curriculum..' University of Wolverhampton, 8/5/2008 - 9/5/2008. pp. 7-13.

    Rayson, P., Archer, D.E., Baron, A., Culpeper, J., Smith, N. (2007) 'Tagging the Bard: Evaluating the accuracy of a modern POS tagger on Early Modern English corpora.' In Corpus Linguistics Conference 2007 (CL2007). University of Birmingham, UK, 27/7/2007 - 30/7/2007.

    Rayson, P., Archer, D., Baron, A., Smith, N. (2007) 'Tagging historical corpora - the problem of spelling variation.' 6491.

    Archer, D.E., Rayson, P., Piao, S., McEnery, A.M. (2004) 'Comparing the UCREL Semantic Annotation Scheme with Lexicographical Taxonomies.' In 11th EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography) International Congress (Euralex 2004). Lorient (France), Université de Bretagne Sud, 6/7/2004 - 10/7/2004. European Association for Lexicography, pp. 817-827.

    Rayson, P., Archer, D.E., Piao, S.L., McEnery, T. (2004) 'The UCREL Semantic Analysis System.' In LREC-04. Lisbon, Portugal, 26/5/2004 - 28/5/2004. European Language Resources Association, pp. 7-12.

    Piao, S., Rayson, P., Archer, D.E., McEnery, A.M. (2004) 'Evaluating lexical resources for a semantic tagger.' In 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004). Lisbon, Portugal, 26/5/2004 - 28/5/2004. European Language Resources Association, pp. 499-502.

    Piao, S., Rayson, P., Archer, D.E., Wilson, A., McEnery, T. (2003) 'Extracting multiword expressions with a semantic tagger.' In ACL 2003, 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 18. Sapporo, Japan, 7/7/2003 - 12/7/2003. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 49-56.

  • Other

    Chatzidamianos, G., Archer, D. (2022) A confidential report on domestic abuse in deaf women.

    Archer, D. (2020) The Language of Influence. Police Negotiation Training “Refresher” Booklet for UK police’s National Negotiation Group..

    Archer, D., Smithson, R. (2015) Negotiating Influence. Language-based training resource for Police Negotiators..

Press and media

Media appearances or involvement

Expert consultant, aka “The Listener”, for ‘Faking it: Tears of a Crime’. Documentaries developed for Investigation Discovery (by Shearwater Media). Series 1 aired Jan & Feb 2017; Series 2 aired Aug & Sept 2017; Series 3 aired 12 Oct–14 Dec 2018.

Interview for Digital Spy (published 3 Dec 2018): ‘Brendan Dassey’s confession on Making a Murderer: We’ve had it analysed by an expert’. http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/making-a-murderer/feature/a871092/brendan-dassey-confession-making-a-murderer/

Guest on BBC Radio 4’s “Word of Mouth”, discussing the language of deception and its detection. Aired 21 & 27 January 2020. Available here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz/episodes/player. Alternatively, available to download as a podcast here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz/episodes/downloads