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Gabrielatos, Costas, Tony McEnery, Peter J. Diggle, and Paul Baker. "The peaks and troughs of corpus-based contextual analysis." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17, no. 2 (November 26, 2012): 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.17.2.01gab.
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This paper focuses upon two issues. Firstly, the question of identifying diachronic trends, and more importantly significant outliers, in corpora which permit an investigation of a feature at many sampling points over time. Secondly, we consider how best to combine more qualitatively oriented approaches to corpus data with the type of trends that can be observed in a corpus using quantitative techniques. The work uses a recently completed ESRC-funded project as a case study, the representation of Islam in the UK press, in order to demonstrate the potential of the approach taken to establishing significant peaks in diachronic frequency development, and the fruitful interface that may be created between qualitative and quantitative techniques.
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Utka, Andrius. "Phases of translation corpus." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9, no. 2 (November 30, 2004): 195–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.9.2.03utk.
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The absolute majority of scholarly work in descriptive translation studies is product-oriented. In this article, the focus is moved from product-oriented to process-oriented translation studies by compiling an English – Lithuanian Phases of Translation Corpus (PT corpus). The PT corpus is analysed using quantitative and qualitative analyses. The quantitative analysis using frequency information highlights the difficult word types that either are missing or are inconsistently translated in successive Lithuanian translated versions. The qualitative analysis continues the quantitative research by help of parallel concordancing. The problematic cases of translation are extracted and cases of normalization, systematic replacement of terminology, and influence by the original language are reported.
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Jeong-Woo Kim. "How Much Do Quantitative Factors Affect Qualitative Analyses in Corpus-based Translation Studies?" Journal of Translation Studies 14, no. 1 (March 2013): 31–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.15749/jts.2013.14.1.002.
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van Doorslaer, Luc. "Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Corpus Selection in Translation Studies." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 7, no. 2 (January 1, 1995): 245–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.7.2.04van.
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Abstract Although research procedures for translation analysis and comparison are being adapted to the principles of induction and deduction which are necessary in intersubjective research, criteria for corpus selection are often not explicitly motivated. Since hypotheses depend for their reliability on the corpus selected, attention should be paid to the relationship between exhaustiveness and representativeness. Criteria for corpus selection are often either random or textually motivated, while exceptions and deviations in translation often require a qualitative refinement of these criteria such as that obtained from extra-textual information.
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Munk, Anders Kristian. "Four Styles of Quali-Quantitative Analysis." Nordicom Review 40, s1 (June 28, 2019): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0020.
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Abstract Through the example of a web corpus built to study the emergence of the New Nordic Food phenomenon in Scandinavia, I discuss how quali-quantitative analysis can help us make sense of onlife traces. I propose four styles of analysis that address the meaning problem in different ways, namely 1) through complementarity, a division of labour in which quantitative and qualitative methods are allowed to unfold relatively undisturbed by one another, the latter performing the job of situating and interpreting the insights gleaned from the former; 2) through a single level of analysis, whereby the potential of onlife traces is seen to reside in their ability to be both qualitatively rich and quantifiable at the same time, enabling an analysis of how apparent macro phenomena are produced on the micro level; 3) through curation, a critical practice in which a qualitative understanding of different media environments and their effects on the production of onlife traces becomes integral to the way in which such data should be sourced and quantified; and 4) through algorithmic sensemaking, whereby the relational reasoning typically associated with qualitative fieldwork is emulated quantitatively through techniques like pattern recognition.
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Blom, Bjarne, and Anna Trosborg. "An Analysis of Regulative Speech Acts in English Contracts - Qualitative and Quantitative Methods." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 5, no. 9 (July 29, 2015): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v5i9.21507.
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This paper deals with the language used to express legal speech acts in simple contracts within the field of English Contract Law. The central objects of study are regulative functions, i.e. directive and commissive speech acts with a particular view to establishing realisation patterns of these rhetorical functions. The hypothesis that the speech acts subjecte to analysis are homogeneously distributed linguistic realisations typical for simple contracts is tested by means of partly manual analysis, partly machine-based quantification of the data of investigation. The findings show that statistically significant items are distributed homogenously in the corpus examined, and that the choice of individual strategies can be interpreted in terms of the face redress required by the socio-pragmatic situation.
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Liu, Yan Hong, and Ze Quan Liu. "A Corpus-Based Study of College English Coursebooks." Advanced Materials Research 204-210 (February 2011): 1990–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.204-210.1990.
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This study aims to create a college English coursebook corpus of coursebooks widely used in universities in China to form the basis of an analysis. The comparative study based on Cunningsworth [1] coursebook evaluation theory, in view of several checklist items and the adoption of quantitative and qualitative approach, involves: vocabulary size, the coverage of vocabulary and collocations and the readability of texts. The statistics of evaluation show that there is a gap between requirements and coursebooks. It is hoped that the indices examined in this study would be of some help for English teachers to take vocabulary and collocation size and text readability into account in teaching practice and possibly for administrators to adjust curriculum design and for editors or publishers to revise existing coursebooks.
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Zarco-Tejada, Ángeles, Carmen Noya Gallardo, Mª Carmen Merino Ferradá, and Isabel Calderón López. "Analysing corpus-based criterial conjunctions for automatic proficiency classification." Journal of English Studies 14 (December 16, 2016): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.3090.
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The linguistic profiling of L2 learning texts can be taken as a model for automatic proficiency assessment of new texts. But proficiency levels are distinguished by many different linguistic features among which the use of cohesive devices can be a criterial element for level distinctions, either in the number of conjunctions used (quantitative) and/or in the type and variety of them (qualitative). We have carried such an analysis with a subgroup of the CLEC (CEFR-levelled English Corpus) using Coh-Metrix, a tool for computing computational cohesion and coherence metrics for written and spoken texts, but our results suggest that automatic proficiency level assessment needs a deeper examination of conjunctions that should rely on the analysis of conjunction-types use and conjunction varieties, with an analysis of lexical choice. A variable based on familiarity ranks could help to predict cohesive levels proficiencyoriented.
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Fox, Renata. "USING CORPUS LINGUISTICS TO DESCRIBE CORPORATIONS’ IDEOLOGIES." Tourism and hospitality management 12, no. 2 (December 2006): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.20867/thm.12.2.2.
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This article applies corpus linguistics to research the ideologies of Fortune 500 corporations as institutionalised through those corporations’ mission statements. The methodology used is both qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative methodology relates to the semantics of corporations’ ideologies. More precisely, it explains the ideas, beliefs, meanings, and concepts found in corporations’ mission statements, the relation between those ideas, beliefs, meanings, and concepts and society, and what makes those ideas, beliefs, meanings, and concepts meaningful. Quantitative methodology relates to the description and comparison of corporations’ ideologies based on a corpus-driven approach and computational text analysis of a corpus of corporations’ mission statements. Ultimately, through its ideology a corporation creates a symbolic universe: “a matrix of all social and individual meanings” that determines the significance of the corporation and its stakeholders.
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Astia, Idda, and Sofi Yunianti. "Corpus-Based Analysis of the Most Frequent Adjective on Covid-19." Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics 5, no. 2 (December 4, 2020): 505. http://dx.doi.org/10.21462/ijefl.v5i2.318.
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This study aims to investigate the type of adjectives in the most frequent adjectives and also the use of the adjective functions on academic writing about COVID-19. This study was conducted by using a corpus tool named sketchengine. The method of this study was a mixed-method by combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. The source of the data was corpus about COVID-19 academic writing due to the fact that COVID-19 has been the trending topic around the globe and also became an international concern. There were several data collection steps; those were first, knowing the most frequent adjective in the COVID-19 corpus by choosing a wordlist. Second, the data were taken 20 the most frequent adjectives used in COVID-19 corpus because 20 data have already represented the most frequent adjectives. Third, it chose the concordance to comprehend the function of the adjective in the COVID-19 corpus. Fourth, 20 the most frequent adjectives were inputted one at a time on concordance. Fifth, the data were analyzed based on the related theory. Finally, it is inferred that the adjective type on the most frequent adjective is a describing adjective, which has the function to frame the condition, situation and characteristic of the noun on the COVID-19 cases.
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Ali, Arshad, Athar Rashid, and Ameer Sultan. "Exploring Personal Deixis in Western Music: A Corpus-Based Study." Global Regional Review V, no. IV (December 30, 2020): 106–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2020(v-iv).11.
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Pragmatics informs us about the relationship between the use of language and its context. This relationship is identified through person deixis. This research interprets the reference meaning of personal deixis and looks at the most frequent personal deixis used in the lyrics of male and female English singers. This research uses a corpus method for the analysis. The data was collected from online sources to compile corpora of songs sung by male and female singers. The research has adopted both qualitative and quantitative approaches for the analysis of corpora. The corpus was tagged using parts-of-speech tagger (POS Tagger) and analyzed using AntConc software. The findings suggest that personal deixis are frequently used by both male and female singers.
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Chernyavskaya, V. E. "DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND CORPUS APPROACHES: A MISSING EVIDENCE-BASED LINK? TOWARDS QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE STUDIES." Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki, no. 2 (2018): 31–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.20916/1812-3228-2018-2-31-37.
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Zhao, Chunhui, and Furong Gao. "Multiblock-Based Qualitative and Quantitative Spectral Calibration Analysis." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 49, no. 18 (September 15, 2010): 8694–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie100892y.
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Mohd Noor, Noorzan, and Amaal Fadhlini Mohamed Alam. "Corpus Analysis of Metadiscourse in Undergraduate Academic Projects." International Journal of Modern Languages And Applied Linguistics 1, no. 1 (August 1, 2017): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/ijmal.v1i1.7618.
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Writers engage different types of metadiscourse markers in interacting with the readers. They provide indicators in their writing of the contents to help readers comprehend and respond to the text. This paper is a preliminary study to identify types and categories of metadiscourse found in a corpus of undergraduate academic projects (UAP corpus). This study is significant as it identifies types and categories of metadiscourse found in both good and weak undergraduate academic writing. Hence, this study is relevant to further support related research on the use of metadiscourse among tertiary level students to write effectively in academic writing. Since metadiscourse has never been directly taught as a subject to undergraduate students, it may contribute to the lack of awareness on metadiscourse functions in effective writing. In this study, the metadiscourse items in UAP corpus are identified and rated by inter-raters. It is a corpus-based research study that involves collecting, analyzing, and using qualitative and quantitative approaches to identify metadiscourse items in the corpus.
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Smail, Robert, Ian N. Gregory, and Joanna E. Taylor. "Qualitative Geographies in Digital Texts: Representing Historical Spatial Identities in The Lake District." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 13, no. 1-2 (October 2019): 28–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2019.0229.
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Techniques for extracting place names (toponyms) from texts and using them to conduct analyses of the geographies within the texts are becoming reasonably well established. These are generally referred to as Geographical Text Analysis (GTA) and allow us to ask questions about the geographies within a corpus. The limitation of this approach is that the geographies that can be uncovered are solely associated with toponyms for which a coordinate-based location can be assigned. While this method is valuable, it is effectively a quantitative representation of the geographies associated with named places. Other representations of geography are ignored. To complement GTA, we need to develop techniques that are capable of representing the more qualitative representations of geography that are found within texts. Drawing on the Corpus of Lake District Writing, this paper presents some initial ideas about how this can be achieved, primarily by using techniques from corpus linguistics.
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Sabet, Masoud Khalili, and Roya Minaei. "A Comparative Corpus-based Analysis of Genre Specific Discourse: The Quantitative and Qualitative Academic Papers in the Field of the TEFL." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 7, no. 4 (April 1, 2017): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0704.08.
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This study attempts to analysis the different parts of quantitative and qualitative research articles in the field of TEFL comparatively to present a convenient pattern for novice EFL students or researchers in a non-English context. Benefited from mix method, current study investigated the similarities and differences between the two genres-specific corpora. In order to induce accurate and creditable result, data-analyzing process was implemented through both computer-based programs and hand- tagged analysis. Fifty quantitative and qualitative TEFL research articles from high-ranking ELT journals were selected and then analyzed. Swales CARS model (2004) was considered as a framework of analysis. Moreover, interpreting of obtaining results from the vocabulary profile program, the readability statistics of two corpora, fulfilled through non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test. The conducted results according to significant level of x < 0.5 or x = 0.05 demonstrated that the differences between quantitative and qualitative research articles from lexio-grammatical and rhetorical features were insignificant. On the contrary, move-structure analyzing of both genre indicated that there are some variation between some exercise of move-step structure. These findings may provide confirmatory and useful evidences for academic researchers in the EFL context.
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Muslimah, Ryza Wahyu. "A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL STRATEGIES in COVID-19 CORPORA." Lire Journal (Journal of Linguistics and Literature) 4, no. 2 (October 12, 2020): 258–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.33019/lire.v4i2.89.
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The aim of this study is expected to find whether the word critical frequently modifies COVID-19 or HIV, and are the type of critical strategies that frequently appear on the corpora.COVID-19 becomes the outbreak issue which is considered as a big problem from everyone in the world. It spreads rapidly from human to human. COVID-19 does not repute as something trifled, because it zaps undetected person in person. Besides, the existence of HIV still becomes the specter of today’s issues. These phenomena summon everyone to conduct the research in a medical perspective or even associate the result in a linguistic perspective. To reach further expanding, mixed method or commonly is used to call as quantitative and qualitative collaboration method. The result showed the T-score of COVID-19 > P value (4.548827 > 1.658). Hence, the proof meant word critical was most significantly modified COVID-19 rather than HIV. Besides, other result represent indirect criticism as the most frequent presence of critical strategies, by the keywords ‘coronavirus may’ displayed 137 (0.49 per million) tokens, ‘ coronavirus is quite’ displayed 3 (0.01 per million) tokens, and ‘coronavirus probably’ displayed 8 (0.03 per million) tokens.
Keywords: Corpus-Based Analysis, Critical Strategies, COVID-19
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LUO, Ruifeng. "Research on Metonymy of Cognitive Linguistics from Corpus Approach of Computer Science." MATEC Web of Conferences 173 (2018): 03015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201817303015.
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The rapid development of computer technology and corpus linguistics has realized the large-scale corpus’s collection, arrangement, annotation and processing. The corpus linguistics combines description with empirical analysis, and qualitative research with quantitative research that the various language phenomenons can be fully explained. The paper makes use of corpus-based approach to study Metonymy of Cognitive Linguistics and draws real data from Center for Chinese Linguistics Peking University of China (CCL), which makes the research more convincing.
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Al-Saggaf, Mohammad Ali, Mohamad Subakir Mohd Yasin, and Imran Ho-Abdullah. "Semasiological corpus-based approach to identifying conceptual metaphor (SCAICM)." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2, no. 1 (September 24, 2015): 116–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.2.1.06als.
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This paper is an attempt to develop a new mechanism for semasiologically identifying conceptual metaphors in a particular discourse (SCAICM). Based on Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) conceptual metaphor theory (CMT)’ and aided with corpus tools, the proposed method complements previously suggested mechanisms by Jaekel (1995, 1997, 2002), Steen (1999, 2007, 2010), Deignan (1999, 2008) and Stefanowitsch (2006). This mechanism attempts to suggest solutions to methodological problems associated with the previous mechanisms, such as the starting point, overlooking instances of potential metaphors, neglecting stretches of words, and covering larger corpora. The proposed method is assumed to account for all and every instance of potential conceptual metaphor in corpora under investigation and it combines qualitative with quantitative analysis interchangeably. The method is implemented to ongoing PhD research addressing conceptual metaphors in selected English translations of the Noble Qur’an (ETNQs).
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Pahta, Päivi, and Irma Taavitsainen. "Vernacularisation of Medical Writing in English: a Corpus-Based Study of Scholasticism." Early Science and Medicine 3, no. 2 (1998): 157–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338298x00266.
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AbstractThe article proposes a model for linguistic analysis of scientific thought-styles, combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in the variationist frame and focusing on writings of the scholastic period. The first part of the article considers factors that led to the vernacularisation of scientific writings in fifteenth-century England and the sources, underlying traditions, and audiences of these writings. The empirical part focuses on two features typical of scholasticism: references to authorities and the use of prescriptive phrases. The results show statistical differences between varieties of writing. A close semantic analysis reveals a pattern which is related to the underlying layers of traditon and to the sociohistorical background of the texts. The material comes from a computer-readable Corpus of Early English Medical Writing 1375-1750, which the authors are compiling at the University of Helsinki.
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Chen, Jingwen. "A Corpus-Based Analysis of although Errors in Chinese EFL Learners’ Written Output." Studies in English Language Teaching 5, no. 3 (June 15, 2017): 429. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v5n3p429.
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<p class="3"><em>The subordinating conjunction “although” is frequently used in English and is considered easy for students to master by many Chinese English teachers. However, errors are often found in Chinese EFL learners’ “although” output during pedagogical practice. This paper aims to explore and analyze common errors of “although” in Chinese EFL learners’ writing. The study is a corpus-based analysis launched under the computer-aided error analysis framework which is a new practice developed from the error analysis hypothesis. Errors of “although” found in texts from the Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC) are extracted and analyzed. Qualitative and quantitative analyses are conducted in the study. According to the findings, there are four major types of “although” errors found in Chinese EFL learners’ writing—but/yet addition, punctuation errors, “although” misuse, and omissions and blends. Factors such as interlingual difference between English and Mandarin Chinese, intralingual interference within the English language system, pedagogical neglect in English classrooms and different cognitive styles are potential causes of Chinese EFL learners’ “although” errors.</em></p>
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Farahani, Mehrdad Vasheghani, and Reza Kazemian. "Speaker-Audience Interaction in Spoken Political Discourse : A Contrastive Parallel Corpus-Based Study of English-Persian Translation of Metadiscourse Features in TED Talks." Corpus Pragmatics 5, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 271–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41701-021-00099-z.
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AbstractMetadiscourse features refer to those elements by which interaction between writer-reader and/or speaker-audience is constructed. Taking this into account, the objective of this contrastive parallel corpus-based study was to explore the way metadiscourse features were used and distributed in the English discourse and their translation in the Persian language as well as analyzing the speaker-audience interaction in translation. For this purpose, 30 different TED talks in politics were randomly selected to ensure the issues of corpus representativeness and balance. The corpus consisted of 21681 tokens in English and 21164 tokens in Persian. For classifying the metadiscourse features, the model introduced by Hyland (Metadiscourse: exploring interaction in writing. Continuum, London, 2005), whose model is classified into two main subcategories of interactive and interactional, was employed. The quantitative analysis showed that overall the number of interactional metadiscourse features was used more than that of the interactive ones in both corpora. Moreover, the results of the Chi-square test revealed that there was statistically no significant difference between the distributional pattern of metadiscourse features in English corpus and their Persian translation. The qualitative analysis revealed that there were four kinds of changes in translation as (im) explicit change, (dis)information change, (in) visibility change, and (de)emphasis change. Besides, the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the corpus revealed that the interaction between the speakers of the TED talks and the audience did not change when metadiscourse features translated from English into Persian. The results of this research can be found useful for researchers in contrastive analysis, translation studies, and corpus-based translation studies.
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Xu, Yi. "A corpus-based functional study of shi…de constructions." Chinese Language and Discourse 5, no. 2 (November 28, 2014): 146–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.5.2.02xu.
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Existing research on shi…de constructions has often referred to its purported “emphasis” or “focus” functions. This paper reexamines shi…de by analyzing 787 examples of shi…de extracted from a spoken corpus. Positive evidence was found for several earlier proposals that rely on intuitively-generated data. Meanwhile, additional features of the construction can be observed. Results indicate that the preferred form of shi…de takes stative predicates, and some examples occur in such high frequencies that they form formulaic expressions. The construction always achieves stative predication, is often associated with subjectivity, and expresses the speaker’s certainty in stancetaking. To explain all the data, a unified “emphasis” function is proposed to integrate the traditional analyses of “constructive focus” and “affirmation.” Also, the overlap between the copula and the emphasis/focus function of shi in shi…de suggests that the construction is a form grammaticalized from shi + nominalization. This paper thus shows that corpus data can enable us to tackle an old issue with new evidence by making all subtypes of the construction available for quantitative and qualitative analysis, which in turn helps us redefine and reconceptualize otherwise ambiguous notions.
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Nesterets, Ya I., P. Coan, T. E. Gureyev, A. Bravin, P. Cloetens, and S. W. Wilkins. "On qualitative and quantitative analysis in analyser-based imaging." Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography 62, no. 4 (June 21, 2006): 296–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s0108767306017843.
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Turunen, Jari, and Tarmo Lipping. "Phoneme analysis based on quantitative and qualitative entropy measurement." Computer Speech & Language 22, no. 4 (October 2008): 313–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2007.09.004.
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Türker, Ebru. "A corpus-based approach to emotion metaphors in Korean." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11, no. 1 (June 28, 2013): 73–144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.11.1.03tur.
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The major goal of this study is to investigate conceptual emotion metaphors of Korean, particularly those of ANGER, HAPPINESS, and SADNESS, by utilizing a corpus-based analysis. The universality of conceptual metaphors continues to be a controversial topic in cognitive linguistics and thus, more cross-linguistic and language-specific studies are needed to support the theoretical framework of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). To this end, the current study identifies and examines Korean metaphorical expressions through a conceptual analysis, supported by both quantitative and qualitative methods, and aims to find out the types of concepts with which ANGER, HAPPINESS, and SADNESS are associated, and thus, to what extent these associations comprise primary (universal) and complex (cultural) metaphors, as suggested by the current view of the CMT. I argue that while it is important to distinguish between universal and cultural metaphors, the hierarchical mapping of variation also describes the characteristics of a language vis-à-vis universality or cultural specificity. Furthermore, I claim that the characteristics of metaphorical expressions should also be determined based on analysis of their occurrences in language use. The data suggest a positive correlation between frequency and productivity. Understanding the frequency and productivity of emotion metaphors through analysis of their occurrence in actual language use will allow better understanding and provide a basis for further investigation of native speakers’ cognitive styles and cognitive tendencies.
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GRAY, MARK. "On the interchangeability of actually and really in spoken English: quantitative and qualitative evidence from corpora." English Language and Linguistics 16, no. 1 (February 17, 2012): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674311000323.
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Much of the research that has been carried out into the functions of actually and – to a lesser extent – really has focused on their so-called ‘discourse functions’. However, when they appear medially both actually and really are usually classified as intensifiers, and it has been argued that they are often interchangeable (see for example Lenk 1998; Oh 2000; Taglicht 2001). The purpose of this article is to test current thinking on this question by casting further light on the way medial actually and really are used in spoken discourse. Two complementary approaches are taken. Firstly, the interchangeability hypothesis is assessed on the basis of quantitative analyses of data from the British National Corpus. Secondly, the question of the extent to which actually and/or really function as intensifiers in preverbal position is addressed via a detailed qualitative analysis of data from a small corpus of recent BBC radio broadcasts of the panel-based political discussion programme Any Questions. The analyses presented here suggest that the interchangeability hypothesis is untenable and that the two adverbs have different core meanings, with any intensifying function being largely the result of interplay between the distinct semantic properties of each adverb and the discourse context.
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Meier, Henk Erik, Anica Rose, and Martin Hölzen. "Spirals of Signification? A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the German Doping Discourse." Communication & Sport 5, no. 3 (October 27, 2015): 352–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479515610151.
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Based on the idea that the political success of the anti-doping movement might be reflected in an increasing moralization of media discourses, the article traces long-term trends in the German doping discourse. Thus, a unique text corpus covering the period between 1950 and 2009 is analyzed using a corpus linguistic (CL) approach. It is shown that attention for doping has heavily increased and that doping has been marked as a persistent and widespread problem subject to permanent efforts of mitigation. However, there is little evidence for more alarmist moralizations. While quantitative CL techniques proved useful for tracing long-term changes in language use, assessing the role of media within the political economy of the moral regulation of doping requires a more ambitious mix of quantitative and qualitative methods. Nevertheless, the use of CL by scholars of sport communication is recommended, as CL methods are able to process large amounts of digitized data and are quite flexible in theoretical terms.
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Liu, Shuai, and Jingyuan Zhang. "Using Metadiscourse to Enhance Persuasiveness in Corporate Press Releases: A Corpus-Based Study." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (July 2021): 215824402110321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211032165.
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Previous studies have explored the genre characteristics and persuasive nature of press releases. However, systematic analyses of the metadiscursive devices for persuasive purposes are lacking for corporate press releases. Following a corpus-assisted approach, this study investigates the distribution patterns of different types of metadiscourse resources used to achieve persuasiveness in the corporate press release genre. A quantitative analysis of the corpus under study reveals the different frequencies of metadiscourse devices in corporate press releases, and comparisons are made across different genres with similar persuasive attempts. The factors underlying the similarities and differences in metadiscourse use across genres are also examined. A qualitative analysis supported with examples illustrates how different types of metadiscourse devices contribute to the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos and help to enhance persuasiveness. Major findings and their implications for business discourse learners and researchers as well as business practitioners are presented. The article ends with its limitations and recommends avenues for further research in this line of inquiry.
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Gustara, Restu Anggi. "A Critical Discourse Analysis: The Representation of ‘Homosexual’, ‘Lesbian’, and ‘Gay’ Collocates Words in Cola and BNC Corpus." Digital Press Social Sciences and Humanities 2 (2019): 00018. http://dx.doi.org/10.29037/digitalpress.42269.
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This is a Critical Discourse Analysis of the collocation of ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’, and ‘gay’ terms in the corpus data of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and British National Corpus (BNC). By conducting Halliday’s theory, this study aims to find out the representation of three terms, ‘homosexual’, lesbian’, and ‘gay’, also the ideology, from the collocation words. As a combined study between Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics, a qualitative and quantitative data were used. By using corpus analysis as the method, the researcher analyzes the ideology based on the collected collocates words. The result of the analysis shows that ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’, and ‘gay’ has a linier relationship. Those three terms are used in different area of public text, which are ‘homosexual’ is more acceptable in academic term and ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ are mostly used in the non-academic term. Even though COCA and BNC show the different amount of their existence, they are share the same collocation: rights, relationship, lifestyle, identity, activist, and couple.
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Mahlberg, Michaela, and Dan McIntyre. "A case for corpus stylistics." English Text Construction 4, no. 2 (November 17, 2011): 204–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.4.2.03mah.
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In this article we investigate keywords and key semantic domains in Fleming’s Casino Royale. We identify groups of keywords that describe elements of the fictional world such as characters and settings as well as thematic signals. The keyword groups fall into two broad categories that are characterized as text-centred and reader-centred, with the latter providing particular clues for interpretation. We also compare the manually identified keyword groups with key semantic domains that are based on automatic semantic analysis. The comparison shows, for instance, how words that do not seem to fit a semantic domain can be seen as reader-centred keywords fulfilling specific textual functions. By linking our analysis to arguments in literary criticism, we show how quantitative and qualitative approaches can usefully complement one another.
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Kupka, Petr, Alica Brendzová, Václav Walach, Ondřej Plachý, Laco Toušek, Ľubomír Lupták, Kateřina Tvrdá, and Klára Vanková. "Obchod s chudobou: obsahová analýza českých zpravodajských médií v období 2006–2017." Středoevropské politické studie Central European Political Studies Review 20, no. 2 (December 1, 2018): 124–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cepsr.2018.2.124.
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Poverty business has become an important metaphor in the current debate regarding security in socially excluded localities. The term poverty business covers a range of business practices aimed at the poorest and most vulnerable populations. The goal of this study is to examine media representations of the phenomenon using content analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. First, characteristics of Czech media messages including the term “poverty business” are analysed. Next, key events are identified which have shaped the way poverty business is reported on in the analysed corpus. Finally, topics, groups and key actors are analysed based on the development of their quantitative representation in the corpus over time.
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Oster, Ulrike. "Emotions in motion." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16, no. 1 (May 31, 2018): 191–228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00008.ost.
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Abstract This paper outlines some of the challenges and possibilities of a corpus-based approach to the diachronic description of the semantics of emotion words. It analyses three German anger words (Wut, Zorn and Ärger) in two corpora: DTA (Deutsches Textarchiv, covering the period 1600–1899) and DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache, which covers twentieth-century German). The study is based on two complementary approaches: a semantic and pragmatic analysis of co-occurrences (Oster, 2012); and the use of semantic foci (Ogarkova & Soriano, 2014). This allows for a detailed description of the semantic evolution of the three anger words for four aspects of emotion – Control, Lack of Control, Visibility and Internalization – while exploring the advantages of a combined quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis.
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Wang, Feng (Robin), and Philippe Humblé. "Analysis of the Buddhist Conversion of Great Sage." Chinese Semiotic Studies 14, no. 4 (November 27, 2018): 505–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2018-0028.
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AbstractAs one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature,The Journey to the Westnarrates a legendary Buddhist pilgrimage. Until now, the religious conversion in the novel remains much less explored by academia. We propose an innovative approach to addressing this shortfall by conducting a corpus-based investigation into the characterization of the protagonist “Great Sage.” We use the corpus tools BFSU PowerConc 1.0 and LancsBox v.2.0.1 to calculate and visualize the collocation networks of Great Sage: for one thing, to contextualize the complex interactions between him and the external environment; for another, to define and compare different phases of the character’s evolution. The collocational networks are derived by means of a quantitative approach, i.e. a mutual information (MI) score with collocation cutoff values. This lays an objective foundation for a subsequent qualitative interpretation of how the protagonist’s identity is forged in his conversion. Further, some associated literary and theological scholarships are woven into our text-based analysis.
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Wang, Teng Jun, Bo Yang, and Hai Yan Yang. "Dam Deformation Monitoring and Data Analysis Based on Cloud Model." Advanced Materials Research 459 (January 2012): 479–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.459.479.
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Dam deformation monitoring plays an important role in order to ensure the safety of dam operation, to improve project efficiency and the level of design and construction. Reliable monitoring method and scientific data analysis is the best protection for control the deformation law. Mathematical methods have been used to precisely quantitative analysis the deformation of the dam monitoring points. Usually, when assess the stability of deformation and evaluate the monitored data, qualitative languages are used to analyze qualitative result. The article combines cloud model with reliable monitoring data of Xiaolangdi to try to make qualitative analysis result quantitatively, and the quantitative analysis result can verify the qualitative analysis conclusion. It has realized the change between those two analyses. Also, utilize cloud model to analyzing deformation monitoring data is verified reliable.
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He, Huaqing. "A Computer-Aided Analysis on Word Form Errors in College English Writing — A Corpus-based Study." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 11, no. 03 (March 30, 2016): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v11i03.5158.
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Based on contrastive analysis and computer-aided error analysis, this paper uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore word form errors committed by Chinese non-English majors in their writing, collected in Chinese Learner English Corpus (CLEC). The aim is to offer English learners some help in the methods to improve their English writing proficiency and yield some suggestions on English language teaching. The main findings are as follows: (1) the word form errors account for 29.42% of the total language errors; (2) there is a negative correlation between word form errors and writing quality; (3) there is a significant difference in word form errors committed by college learners of different writing ability. In the end, the reasons for word form errors are analyzed and some pedagogical suggestions are put forward.
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Cârlan, Alexandru, and Mălina Ciocea. "Media deliberation on intra-EU migration. A qualitative approach to framing based on rhetorical analysis." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 16, no. 3 (April 24, 2016): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2014.3.177.
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In this paper we investigate how the model of deliberation proposed by Isabela and Norman Fairclough can be used for a better clarification and understanding of the framing processes in media – especially in opinion articles. We thus aim at integrating theoretical contributions from critical discourse analysis and argumentation theory with standard approaches to framing, originating in media studies. We emphasize how a rhetorical approach to framing can provide analytical insights into framing processes and complement the typical quantitative approaches with qualitative analysis based on textual reconstruction. Starting from an issue-specific approach to framing, we discuss a particular case of framing of intra-EU migration, analyzing four opinion articles selected from a larger corpus of Romanian, British and French media. We highlight, along our analysis, various methodological options and analytical difficulties inherent to such an approach.
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Thornton, Sean. "Does a corpus informed analysis provide any insights as to why Robert Phillipson’s theory of Linguistic Imperialism is labelled by some as a conspiracy theory?" Pragmatics and Society 9, no. 2 (June 28, 2018): 252–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.15065.tho.
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Abstract This paper uses the corpus tools DOTA and WordSmith to see if they can provide any indication as to why some label Phillipson’s theory of Linguistic Imperialism as a conspiracy theory. The tools were applied to multiple corpora composed of texts drawn from: Phillipson’s works, conspiracy theory books, and a control corpus of general academic papers. The quantitative data generated was subjected to a corpus informed qualitative analysis with the tools being applied to facilitate a corpus-assisted discourse study of Linguistic Imperialism.
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Werner, Valentin. "Love is all around: a corpus-based study of pop lyrics." Corpora 7, no. 1 (May 2012): 19–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2012.0016.
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Although they are an integral part of everyday life, song lyrics are not included in any of the standard corpora of English (e.g., BNC, ICE, CIC, Brown family) that are currently available. In this paper, I report on an analysis of lyrics based on a chart corpus containing British and American pop songs. The purpose of this study is to test various stylistic, diatopic and historical factors, with the help of both qualitative and quantitative methods. Findings from earlier research are tested against further corpus evidence, while I provide a broader statistical basis and more illustrative examples than in previous studies. I also address more theoretical issues, such as the principles behind the production of lyrics and the question of whether pop song lyrics can be categorised in terms of ‘spoken’ versus ‘written’ or ‘formal’ versus ‘informal’. I argue that pop lyrics constitute a rather special register. Finally, I outline areas of further study.
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Xie, Wenwen, and Xiaolu Wang. "Building a Parallel Corpus for English Translation Teaching Based on Computer-Aided Translation Software." Computer-Aided Design and Applications 18, S3 (October 20, 2020): 12–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2021.s3.12-22.
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This paper conducts an in-depth study on the construction of parallel corpus for English translation teaching through computer-aided translation software, and this study adopts a combination of corpus statistics and analysis to portray and study the system. In the corpus statistics, we carried out a detailed data analysis of the translated text and the original text with the help of corpus statistics software to find out the linguistic characteristics of the translated text and the areas that can be improved from the perspective of data statistics. After that, based on frequency, mean value, grading value, and multiplication analysis, we carry out qualitative analysis to study the movie subtitle translation strategy and its causes from multiple perspectives. This thesis aims to make research on film and television translation from a new angle with the help of corpus translation and to make up for the gap in the research direction of film and television translation. Firstly, through the corpus analysis methods such as frequency value, mean value, graded value and multiplier value, a quantitative analysis of film texts is carried out from three levels, namely, high frequency, medium frequency and basic, and it is found that Chinese films have many distinctive characteristics in terms of long words and sentences, words and sentences, beginning and end of sentences, idioms and the use of four-character words.
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Cui, Xiao-Ling, and Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith. "A corpus-based study on Chinese sentiment parameters of Chinese sentiment discourse." Chinese Language and Discourse 5, no. 2 (November 28, 2014): 185–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.5.2.03cui.
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Most previous work on sentiment identification and annotation has focused on the identification and annotation of attitudes and targets, while less work has been done on other sentiment parameters. In this paper, we aim to discover different lexical, syntactic and semantic features of Chinese sentiment parameters based on Appraisal Theory. The data are from an annotated corpus of Chinese commentaries, analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. We find that sentence-level sentiment production is the collaborative work of the core sentiment parameter (attitude) with other peripheral sentiment parameters (topic, source, field, process and degree of attitude). The distribution of sentiment parameters is also restricted by word classes, syntactic and semantic features and functions. This work not only offers a new analytic framework for Chinese sentiment analysis, but will improve the precision of sentence-level machine extraction of sentiment expressions in Chinese, with implications for possible extension to other languages.
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Archer, Dawn, and Jonathan Culpeper. "Identifying key sociophilological usage in plays and trial proceedings (1640–1760)." Journal of Historical Pragmatics 10, no. 2 (March 6, 2009): 286–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.10.2.07arc.
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In this paper, we argue that there is another approach to the study of historical pragmatics beyond those explicitly mentioned in Jacobs and Jucker (1995). We label this approach “sociophilology”. Moreover, we demonstrate how this approach can be effectively pursued by combining two corpus linguistics techniques: corpus annotation and “keyness” analysis. Specifically, we draw from the Sociopragmatic Corpus (1640–1760), an annotated subsection of comedy plays and drama proceedings taken from the Corpus of Dialogues 1560–1760, as a means of identifying the statistically-based style markers, or key items, associated with a number of social role dyads (including examiner to examinee and master/mistress to servant). We will show how such an approach might be used to uncover differential distributions of personal pronouns, interjections, imperative verbs, politeness formulae, etc., and how, by combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, one can scrutinise such material for pragmatic import.
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Molina-Plaza, Silvia, and Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo. "Stretched verb collocations with give: their use and translation into Spanish using the BNC and CREA corpora." ReCALL 22, no. 2 (May 2010): 191–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344010000078.
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AbstractWithin the context of on-going research,1 this paper explores the pedagogical implications of contrastive analyses of multiword units in English and Spanish based on electronic corpora as a CALL resource. The main tenets of collocations from a contrastive perspective – and the points of contact and departure between both languages – are discussed prior to examining the commonest types of verb + noun combinations as a significant case of so-called ‘de-lexicalized’, ‘light’, ‘empty’, ‘thin’, ‘stretched’ or ‘support verbs’. A qualitatively and quantitatively-oriented case study is accordingly conducted, determining the weight of dar in support verb constructions within the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) and of the English equivalent stretched verb constructions with give within the British National Corpus (BNC). Based on the empirical data obtained in this way, this paper provides relevant insights for more accurate translations, helping to enhance the collocational competence of L2 students, who tend to avoid constructions including empty verbs like give in favour of full-verb forms. The detailed findings in this paper come to shed light on the potential of CALL resources for improving the collocational usage of foreign-language learners, as quantitative and qualitative comparisons of collocations based on electronic corpora serve to highlight the similarities and, more importantly, the lexical and typological differences between both languages, thereby substantiating the invaluable role that corpus analysis may play for language teaching in general and for collocational knowledge and proficiency in particular.
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Ortner, Gwyndolen J., and Undine S. Weber. "Student approaches and attitudes towards writing in German as a foreign language, using corpus-linguistic tools." Journal for Language Teaching 53, no. 2 (March 3, 2021): 27–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jlt.v53i2.2.
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Linguistic researchers are optimistic about what corpora can offer language learners; however, very little empirical assessment of the direct use of corpus tools is reported on in context, especially for languages other than English. One method of assessing the effectiveness and value of corpus tools is by collecting students’ experiences of using them and establishing if they perceive benefits through using corpus tools. Following a qualitative questionnaire which examined student approaches to writing in German as a foreign language, and a quantitative analysis of their writing, a writing module was designed and instituted at Rhodes University for third-year German Studies students. The writing module made use of both indirect (paper-based) and direct (computer-based) corpus-based methods to teach everyday academic vocabulary and formulaic expressions, based on materials developed for the WHiG project in the UK. This study presents an overview of the students’ attitudes and perspectives (as recorded in questionnaires and interviews), in order to give voice to the qualitative and subjective dimension of foreign language learning, which is often neglected in corpus-based studies. The participating students perceived an improvement in their writing through a changed approach to researching and using everyday academic German.
Keywords: German as a foreign language; student perceptions; teaching with corpora; everyday academic language; Deutsch als alltägliche Wissenschaftssprache; academic writing; students as co-creators of teaching materials.
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Faya-Cerqueiro, Fátima, and Gema Alcaraz-Mármol. "The Toledo Teacher Trainees corpus (TTT): Bridging the gap between students’ narratives and corpus linguistics." Research in Corpus Linguistics 8 (2020): 147–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.32714/ricl.08.01.10.
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In recent decades a few research methods have resorted to L2 learners in order to analyse several aspects aiming at methodological improvements. One of them is corpus linguistics, which has largely contributed to the study of language production from a quantitative perspective. A very different one has been the compilation of perceptions of the L2 learning process using ‘narrative inquiry’ and qualitative methods of analysis. However, scholars have not addressed the combination of both methods. In this proposal we examine their main individual features and offer an interwoven line of research, applying the quantitative approach of corpus linguistics to the genre of language learning narratives. Thus, we present a new corpus of L2 learners’ perceptions and provide detailed information on its structure, compilation and categorisation. The interdisciplinary status of this proposal will enable the exploration of new research possibilities that can ultimately benefit the teaching-learning process.
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Chen, Cheryl Wei-yu. "The use of conjunctive adverbials in the academic papers of advanced Taiwanese EFL learners." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11, no. 1 (February 20, 2006): 113–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.11.1.05che.
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The current study explores the use of conjunctive adverbials (CAs) in two corpora compiled by the author. The learner corpus consists of 23 final papers contributed by 10 MA TESOL students from Taiwan while the control corpus contains 10 journal articles from two prestige international TESOL journals. On the quantitative dimension, student writers were found to slightly overuse connectors when the analysis was based on word-level. Additionally, the qualitative analysis revealed that certain CAs (e.g. besides, therefore) were used inappropriately by some of the learners. The paper ends with several teaching suggestions on how to help student writers master the complex system of conjunctive adverbials in English.
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Egbert, Jesse, and Doug Biber. "Incorporating text dispersion into keyword analyses." Corpora 14, no. 1 (April 2019): 77–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2019.0162.
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Keyword analysis has become an indispensable tool for discourse analysts, being applied to identify the words that are especially characteristic of the texts in a target discourse domain. But, surprisingly, the statistical computation of keyness makes no reference to those texts. Rather, once a corpus has been constructed, it is treated as a homogeneous whole for the computation of keyness. As a result, the keywords in such lists are relatively frequent in the corpus, but they are often not widely dispersed across the texts of that corpus and are thus not truly representative of the target discourse domain. The purpose of this study is to propose a new method for keyword analysis – text dispersion keyness – that is based on text dispersion, rather than corpus frequency. We compare the effectiveness of this measure to four other methods for computing keyness, carrying out a series of case studies to identify the keywords that are typical of online travel blogs. A variety of quantitative and qualitative analyses are carried out to compare these methods based on their content-generalisability and content-distinctiveness, demonstrating that text dispersion keyness is a superior measure for generating keyword lists.
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Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika, and Jolanta Šinkūnienė. "The necessitive impersonal REIK(Ė)TI ‘need’: the rise of modal meaning." Lietuvių kalba, no. 11 (December 20, 2017): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2017.22558.
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The focus of the paper is on the frequency, distribution patterns and semantic profile of the necessitive impersonal reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in old and contemporary Lithuanian texts. The study employs corpus based quantitative and qualitative analysis to investigate the patterns of use of reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in the Database of Old Writings (16th-17th centuries) as well as the fiction sub-corpus of the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language and the humanities and biomedical sciences sub-corpora of the Corpus of Academic Lithuanian (CorALit). The study follows van der Auwera and Plungian’s (1998) modality framework. The quantitative analysis shows that the present tense form reikia ‘need.PRS.3’ is the dominating one across all the sub-corpora analysed. The results of the qualitative study indicate that the deontic sub-type of participant external modality is prevailing in the old Lithuanian texts as well as in the fiction sub-corpus and in the biomedical sciences texts of the contemporary Lithuanian. The discourse of the humanities displays a fairly frequent employment of reik(ė)ti ‘need’ for discourse organising functions alongside the deontic uses. Although the usage patterns of reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in the biomedical sciences and the humanities share certain common features, they also point to discipline specific trends of argumentation. It is also important to observe that the objective deontic reik(ė)ti ‘need’ seems to gradually acquire the features of subjective deontic modality over time, which corresponds to the typical subjectification cline (cf. Traugott 1989).
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Calzada Pérez, Maria. "Five turns of the screw." Journal of Language and Politics 16, no. 3 (April 12, 2017): 412–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.15020.cal.
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The present paper proposes a CADS-based analysis of European Parliament speeches, by merging (C)DA theoretical constructs (inspired by Laclau and Mouffe 1985) and CL tools. In this fashion, the European Comparable and Parallel Corpus of Parliamentary Speeches Archive (ECPC) is examined along synchronic and diachronic, quantitative and qualitative lines, in an inductive study that commutes from the micro-text to the macro-context.
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Sahar, Abdul Qayyum, and Wasima Shehzad. "Gender Representation In E-Discourse Of Banks In Pakistan: A Corpus-Based Study." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 17, no. 1 (September 8, 2018): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v17i1.7.
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Electronic discourse emerged, as a new genre, in the last few decades. Like other fields of life, the internet also shifted business from traditional to virtual domains i.e. electronic commerce. Similarly, the banks in Pakistan launched their websites and online services for the purpose of running more effective business. Like other linguistic aspects, the choice of pronouns plays a significant role in making corporate communication more effective. In this regard, inclusion of certain pronouns and exclusion of other pronouns influence the effectiveness of the financial message. This newly emerged discourse needs to be gender balanced in order to be more effective for corporate communication. The current study examined the representation of gender in the e-discourse from feminist perspective. It looked at the occurrences of third person singular pronouns used for representation of men and women on web pages of banks in Pakistan. Corpus analysis tool AntConc (Anthony, 2014) was used to find out the occurrences of pronouns used for female gender and male gender in ‘About us’ section of the banks in Pakistan. Texts were copied from the websites of banks. In order to make these texts machine-readable, they were converted into plain texts. Both quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis were used for better understanding of the research study. Quantitative representation of gender focusingon occurrences of pronouns was complemented with the in-depth presentation of the data. The study revealed gender-based disparities in the banking discourse. Female gender is underrepresented (12.74%) and male gender is overrepresented (87.26%). This low depiction of female gender in the discourse of banks indicates gender biasness; putting female gender in periphery and highlighting male gender by assigning greater number of occurrences.