Professor Emeritus
Biography
B.A., Yale University, 1965
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1969
Activities and Interests
My scholarly efforts have been devoted to analyzing the workings of language in literature, academic writing, and advice writing, always with a view toward literary, textual, and discourse theory. At present, I expend good bit of time developing new uses of on-line technology to support courses in English Syntax, World Englishes, and corpus based analysis of kinds of writing. These on-line corpora also support my current research project, which is to give more specificity and substance to our accounts of writing in the academic disciplines. I also have made and maintain "resource" sites for studying English language and sites supporting books in visual analysis. (See my personal website.)
Research
Selected Research
- George Dillon. “The Genres Speak: Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers.” Journal of Literary Semantics 36.2(2007): 159-187.
- George Dillon. “Clipart Images as Commonsense Categories.” Visual Communication 5.3 (2006): 287-306.
- George Dillon. “Corpus, Creativity, Cliché: Where Statistics Meet Aesthetics.” Journal of Literary Semantics 35.2 (2006): 97-103.
- George Dillon. “Anti-Laokoon: Mixed and Merged Modes of Imagetext on the Web.” The Writer’s Craft, the Culture’s Technology. Eds. Carmen-Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Michael Toolan. Rodopi. 2005. pp. 1-21.
- George Dillon. “The Semiotic Art of Web Sitemaps.” Discourse Studies in Composition. Ellen Barton and Gail Stygall, eds.. Hampton Press. 2002.
- George Dillon. “Dada Photomontage and Net.art Sitemaps.” Postmodern Culture 10:1 (2000).
- George Dillon. Contending Rhetorics: Writing in Academic Disciplines. Indiana University Press. 1991.