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Seidl-Péch, Olívia. "Zu theoretischen und praktischen Aspekten des Fachübersetzens." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 135–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0034.
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AbstractIn the past few decades, it has extensively been written about corpus linguistics, which has owned its upswing mainly to the use of electronic corpora since the 1960s (Brown Corpus). Meanwhile, an increasing number of fields within general and applied linguistics (e.g. computational linguistics, discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, diachronic and synchronic linguistics, language teaching and learning research, lexicology and lexicography, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, translation studies) have been using corpus linguistic methods. In linguistic research, the empirical and descriptive character of corpus-based linguistic analysis has also been given an emphasis.Thanks to the digital revolution of the 20th and 21st centuries the creation and provision of digital linguistic corpora is becoming accessible for smaller nations and language communities as well as for scientists. Nowadays, linguistic corpora cannot only be regarded as a tool to support language research and Translation Studies, but they also contribute to the enrichment of cultural diversity. The article focuses on international examples as well as on the most significant Hungarian corpora. The paper also discusses the criteria of corpus creation and several cultural aspects of corpus linguistics.
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Toirova, Guli Ibragimovna. "THE IMPORTANCE OF LINGUISTIC MODELS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE BASES GE BASE." Scientific Reports of Bukhara State University 4, no. 6 (December 29, 2020): 98–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.52297/2181-1466/2020/4/6/8.
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Relevance. In Uzbek linguistics, a number of studies have been carried out on automatic translation, the development of the linguistic foundations of the author's corpus, the processing of lexicographic texts and linguistic-statistical analysis. However, the processing of the Uzbek language as the language of the Internet: spelling, automatic processing and translation programs, search programs for various characters, text generation, the linguistic basis of the text corpus and national corpus, the technology of its software is not studied in any monograph. The article discusses such problems as: the transformation of language into the language of the Internet, computer technology, mathematical linguistics, its continuation and the formation and development of computer linguistics, in particular the question of modeling natural languages for artificial intelligence. The Uzbek National Corps plays an important role in enhancing the international status of the Uzbek language.
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Aarts, Jan, Hans van Halteren, and Nelleke Oostdijk. "The Linguistic Annotation of Corpora." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3, no. 2 (January 1, 1998): 189–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.3.2.02aar.
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The article discusses the role of linguistic annotation in corpus linguistics as opposed to annotation in natural language processing. In corpus linguistics, annotation is an integral part of the process of linguistic interpretation and description of the data. Tagging and parsing are discussed as the automatic counterparts of, respectively, the paradigmatic and the syntagmatic description of corpus data. The requirements for a corpus linguistic annotation system are considered. An account is given of the TOSCA analysis system as representative of such an annotation system. Performance results of the system are given, and an evaluation is made.
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BIBER, DOUGLAS, RANDI REPPEN, and SUSAN CONRAD. "Developing linguistic literacy: perspectives from corpus linguistics and multi-dimensional analysis." Journal of Child Language 29, no. 2 (May 2002): 449–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000902235345.
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In their conceptual framework for linguistic literacy development, Ravid & Tolchinsky synthesize research studies from several perspectives. One of these is corpus-based research, which has been used for several large-scale research studies of spoken and written registers over the past 20 years. In this approach, a large, principled collection of natural texts (a ‘corpus’) is analysed using computational and interactive techniques, to identify the salient linguistic characteristics of each register or text variety. Three characteristics of corpus-based analysis are particularly important (see Biber, Conrad & Reppen 1998):[bull ] a special concern for the representativeness of the text sample being analysed, and for the generalizability of findings;[bull ] overt recognition of the interactions among linguistic features: the ways in which features co-occur and alternate;[bull ] a focus on register as the most important parameter of linguistic variation: strong patterns of use in one register often represent only weak patterns in other registers.
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Zottola, Angela. "Transgender identity labels in the British press." Journal of Language and Sexuality 7, no. 2 (August 27, 2018): 237–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.17017.zot.
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Abstract This contribution focuses on the linguistic representation of transgender people in the British press, through the analysis of a corpus of newspaper articles collected between 2013 and 2015. Within the framework of Queer Linguistics and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, this study analyses the linguistic choices retraceable in the corpus under investigation, conveying a given representation of transgender individuals as social subjects. The analysis focuses on naming strategies and the collective representation of transgender identities.
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Motschenbacher, Heiko. "Corpus linguistics in language and sexuality studies." Journal of Language and Sexuality 7, no. 2 (August 27, 2018): 145–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.17019.mot.
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Abstract As an introduction to the special issue, this paper presents an overview of previous corpus linguistic work in the field of language and sexuality and discusses the compatibility of corpus linguistic methodology with queer linguistics as a central theoretical approach in language and sexuality studies. The discussion is structured around five prototypical aspects of corpus linguistics that may be deemed problematic from a poststructuralist, queer linguistic perspective: quantification and associated notions of objectivity, reliance on linguistic forms and formal presence, concentration on highly frequent features, reliance on categories, and highlighting of differences. It is argued that none of these aspects rules out an application of corpus linguistic techniques within queer theoretically informed linguistic work per se and that it is rather the way these techniques are employed that can be seen as more or less compatible with queer linguistics. To complement the theoretical discussion, a collocation analysis of sexual descriptive adjectives in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is conducted in an attempt to address some of the issues raised. The concluding section makes suggestions for future research.
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Conrad, Susan. "4. CORPUS LINGUISTIC APPROACHES FOR DISCOURSE ANALYSIS." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 22 (March 2002): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190502000041.
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This chapter provides an overview of approaches within corpus linguistics that address discourse-level phenomena. The shared characteristics of all corpus-based research are first reviewed. Then four major approaches are covered: (1) investigating characteristics associated with the use of a language feature, for example, analyzing the factors that affect the omission or retention of that in complement clauses; (2) examining the realizations of a particular function of language, such as describing all the constructions used in English to express stance; (3) characterizing a variety of language, for example, conducting a multi-dimensional analysis to investigate relationships among the registers used in different settings at universities; and (4) mapping the occurrences of a feature through entire texts, for example, tracing how writers refer to themselves and their audience as they construct authority in memos. For each approach, a variety of studies are reviewed to illustrate the diverse perspectives that corpus linguistics can bring to our understanding of discourse. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of some other foci in corpus linguistics and suggests that two areas require particular attention for the advancement of discourse-oriented corpus studies: the need for more computer tools and computer programmers for corpus linguistics, and the need for further studies about how best to represent language varieties in a corpus.
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Wu, Kan. "Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis." Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 39, no. 2 (March 27, 2021): 225–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2020.1827961.
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Bogetić, Ksenija. "MetaLangCORP: Presenting The First Corpus Of Media Metalanguage In Slovene, Croatian And Serbian, And Its Cross-Discipline Applicability." Fluminensia 33, no. 1 (2021): 123–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31820/f.33.1.7.
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Growing interest in meta-language, in linguistics and other disciplines, has highlighted a gap in metalanguage corpora and analytical resources, which remain among the scarcest in corpus-linguistic developments so far. This paper is aimed at making a step towards filling this gap, both by presenting our own metalanguage corpus resource and using it in a short sample analysis to discuss the applications of such resources in linguistics and social sciences. Specifically, the paper presents for the first time MetaLangCORP, a multi-element corpus of contemporary media metalanguage in languages of three post-Yugoslav states, linguistically annotated and made available open-access at the CLARIN repository of linguistic resources. To put the corpus in context, the meaning and relevance of metalanguage research is outlined, the existing efforts at compiling corpora of metalanguage are reviewed, and a sample preliminary analysis of MetaLangCORP keywords is presented to open a broader discussion on the potential applicability of metalanguage corpora. More broadly, it is hoped that making this kind of data available will prompt more nuanced analyses of metalanguage, as well as more corpus-building efforts along similar lines in Slavic and other linguistic scholarship.
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Atkinson, Paul, and Ian N. Gregory. "Child Welfare in Victorian Newspapers: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 48, no. 2 (August 2017): 159–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01124.
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Corpus linguistics enables the analysis of patterns in large bodies of written material. The use of this approach to trace discourses about infant mortality in all of the text published by four newspapers in England and Wales between 1870 and 1900 detects systematic variations in views about infant welfare by locality. It also reveals some of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in interrogating digitized text with linguistic tools in historical research.
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Zolotov, Pitirim Y. "Linguodidactic properties of corpus technologies." Tambov University Review. Series: Humanities, no. 185 (2020): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/1810-0201-2020-25-185-75-82.
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For the last two decades, corpus technologies, understood as a combination of means and methods of processing and analyzing data of electronic linguistic corpora, as a type of information and communication technology, have attracted great interest of researchers and teachers of foreign languages.We explain the concepts of corpus linguistics, corpus technology, linguistic corpus, concordance. The methods of studying case technologies, which are an annotation, abstraction, and analysis, are considered. The advantages of linguistic corpora are given. The history of the emergence and development of linguistic electronic cases from the pre-digital to digital period is described. Minimum requirements for the corpus of texts are presented. They include representativeness, known volume of the corpus, electronic form, annotation and balance. We consider the typology of linguistic corpora. According to the language of the texts in corpora, there are monolingual and multilingual corpora, which in turn are divided into mixed and parallel ones. According to language data, there are written, oral and mixed corpora. Corpora can be annotated and non-annotated. There are three types of annotation: linguistic, metatextual, and extralinguistic. According to the parameter of representation of the language material of a corpus, there are fragmented and non-fragmented ones. According to the type of access, they are classified as open and restricted. According to the genre representation, linguistic corpora are diverse. The size of a corpus should distinguish between representative, illustrative and monitoring types of corpora. The didactic properties of corpus technologies in the field of teaching a foreign language are studied. The division of the linguodidactic properties of case technologies into mandatory and optional is proposed.
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Gredel, Eva. "Itis-Kombinatorik auf den Diskussionsseiten der Wikipedia: Ein Wortbildungsmuster zur diskursiven Normierung in der kollaborativen Wissenskonstruktion." Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik 68, no. 1 (March 29, 2018): 35–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2018-0003.
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AbstractThis paper presents a corpus study of talk pages on Wikipedia combining morphologic and discourse linguistics approaches. The study reveals that –itis is a highly productive suffix in meta(-linguistic) discourses of the online-encyclopaedia: Wikipedia authors using word formation products with the suffix –itis (e. g. Newstickeritis or WhatsAppitis) try to standardise the collaborative knowledge production with the help of these linguistic innovations. The corpus analysis delivers evidence for the fact that certain linguistic innovations and special types of word formation characterise the community of Wikipedia authors and their discourse traditions. Thereby, this paper contributes to the discussion about digital discourse analysis of natively digital data taking stock of the Wikipedia corpora in the German Reference Corpus (Deutsches Referenzkorpus). The peculiarities of Wikipedia's data will be explained, modes of analysis discussed and the challenges of the suggested integration of morphology and discourse linguistics will be explored.
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Oh, Taehwan. "Corpus linguistic analysis of prefix independence and substantiality." Language and Culture 16, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 229–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18842/klaces.2020.16.1.229.
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Degano, Chiara. "Corpus linguistics and argumentation." Journal of Argumentation in Context 5, no. 2 (October 14, 2016): 113–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jaic.5.2.01deg.
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This paper explores the viability of a synergy between corpus linguistics and the study of argumentation in context. While quantitative approaches to the study of discourse have been profitably integrated at the levels of lexico-grammar and syntax, more rarely has this been the case for higher levels of analysis such as argumentative structures. Such an approach would help identify those recurring patterns of argumentation that build up cumulatively, and which can only be identified in larger samples of discourse. In particular this paper concerns how the tools of corpus linguistics can be put to use for the analysis of strategic manoeuvring, and especially topical selection. In order to do so, the televised prime ministerial debates held on the occasion of the 2010 general election in the UK will be taken as a case study, with a focus on the use of linguistic indicators that might help retrieve argumentative patterns.
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Kopotev, Mikhail V. "SOME THOUGHTS ON CORPUS AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS." Philological Class 26, no. 2 (2021): 90–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.51762/1fk-2021-26-02-07.
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The article is devoted to a discussion of dominant approaches developed within the framework of Corpus Linguistics (CL) and their influence on the general theory of language. Based on the research co-authored with his colleagues, the author describes three approaches to linguistic research in CL. First, corpus-informed analysis assumes that the data collected in the corpus are used as a source of examples in a natural language. Second, corpus-based analysis presupposes that the data are examined not only qualitatively but also quantitatively. Third, corpus-driven analysis assumes that the research task is to create an algorithm for data processing, the results of which require theoretical interpretation or practical application. The article concludes with a discussion of those implications that CL brings into the general understanding of language. The most important of them are: reduction of the role of introspection, increase of attention to peripheral linguistic phenomena, and reliance on quantitative data. It is still too early to sum up the impact of corpus linguistics on the general theory of language, but it is already clear that syntagmatic connections, in particular idiomatization in a broad sense, have moved into the focus of linguistic attention and are recognized as one of the main phenomena of language and its evolution. Moreover, an adequate description of a language is not limited to the rules of interaction of units divided into levels, but the description of all – both individual and the most general – probabilistic parameters of use, representing a single continuum in which the division into language and speech is conventional.
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Ventura, Simone. "Digital Editing and Linguistic Analysis:." Textual Cultures 12, no. 2 (August 29, 2019): 33–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/textual.v12i2.27687.
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Attraverso una serie di tre esempî lessicali tratti dal corpus lirico del trovatore Giraut de Borneil, attestato nella seconda metà del XII secolo, si mostrerà come il modulo lessicale del database TrobVers sia in grado di aiutare il filologo nelle operazioni di sintesi e di valo- rizzazione della varia lectio dei manoscritti. Tali casi esemplari aiuteranno a riflettere circa il rapporto tra l’applicazione dei nuovi strumenti informatici a tradizioni testuali ecdotica- mente complesse e il metodo filologico, cercando di dimostrare che l’interfaccia digitale può aiutare nel difficile compito di coniugare la restitutio textus in termini neo-lachmanniani con la valorizzazione dei rapporti orizzontali e le redazioni lessicalmente significative delle differenti famiglie di manoscritti.
Some lexical examples from Giraut de Borneil’s lyric corpus (2nd half of the twelfth century) will show how textual scholarship may benefit from the database TrobVers, especially in locating and assessing the manuscript variants. Some cases in point will help shed new light on the relationship between the application of humanities computing to complex instances of textual transmission and broad methodological issues in textual scholarship. The essay argues that the digital interface may help bridge the gap between the neo-Lachmannian recensio and the necessary consideration of contamination and other forms of lexical inno- vation in the various groups of MSS.
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Ruskan, Anna, and Audronė Šolienė. "Evidential and epistemic adverbials in Lithuanian: evidence from intra-linguistic and cross-linguistic analysis." Kalbotyra 70, no. 70 (January 9, 2018): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/klbt.2017.11197.
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In the recent decade the realisations of evidentiality and epistemic modality in European languages have received a great scholarly interest and resulted in important investigations concerning the relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality, their means of expression and meaning extensions in various types of discourse. The present paper deals with the adverbials akivaizdžiai ‘evidently’, aiškiai ‘clearly’, ryškiai ‘visibly, clearly’, matyt ‘apparently, evidently’ and regis ‘seemingly’, which derive from the source domain of perception, and the epistemic necessity adverbials tikriausiai/veikiausiai/greičiausiai ‘most probably’, būtinai ‘necessarily’ and neabejotinai ‘undoubtedly’. The aim of the paper is to explore the morphosyntactic properties of the adverbials when they are used as evidential or epistemic markers and compare the distribution of their evidential and epistemic functions in Lithuanian fiction, news and academic discourse. The data have been drawn from the Corpus of the Contemporary Lithuanian Language, the Corpus of Academic Lithuanian and the bidirectional translation corpus ParaCorpEN→LT→EN (Šolienė 2012, 2015). The quantitative findings reveal distributional differences of the adverbials under study across different types of discourse. Functional variation of the evidential perception-based adverbials is determined to a great extent by the degree of epistemic commitment, evidenced not only by intra-linguistic but also cross-linguistic data. The non-perception based adverbials tikriausiai/veikiausiai/greičiausiai ‘most probably’, būtinai ‘necessarily’ and neabejotinai ‘undoubtedly’ are the primary adverbial markers of epistemic necessity in Lithuanian, though some of them may have evidential meaning extensions. A parallel and comparable corpus-based analysis has once again proved to be a very efficient tool for diagnosing language-specific features and describing an inventory used to code language-specific evidential and epistemic meanings.
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Luo, Ruifeng. "A Study on Chinese TALK Metaphor from Corpus-based Approach." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 9, no. 2 (March 1, 2018): 346. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0902.16.
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Metaphor is a vitally important concept in Cognitive Linguistics and refers to the mapping from source domain to the target domain. It is the mapping from the concrete entity to the abstract one, through which we can understand the process of men’s mental cognition to handle abstract things through specific ones and has been researching by many linguistic scholars by means of traditional methods such as introspection. The Corpus method is a newly utilized and empirical method to conduct linguistic research and contains the language materials of real and the actual use of language, and corpus is the carrier of basic language knowledge resources based on the computer. The real corpus must be processed (analysis and processing), in order to become useful resources. This paper takes advantage of CCL Corpus(Center for Chinese Linguistics Corpus) which is the biggest Chinese Corpus in China constructed by Beijing University to investigate TAKL metaphor and conduct the empirical research to make metaphor research more objective and convincing.
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Vessey, Rachelle. "Challenges in cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse studies." Corpora 8, no. 1 (May 2013): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2013.0032.
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In this paper, I present some of the challenges and benefits arising from the use of cross-linguistic (i.e., involving comparable, non-parallel corpora of different languages) corpus-assisted discourse studies. Since corpus linguistics and discourse analysis ultimately focus on ‘real’ language use rather than theoretically constructed examples, it follows that the content of a corpus will be as varied as the population it is intended to represent; and this is true to an even larger extent when the population is ethno-linguistically diverse. Data for corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) research, then, can present numerous issues to researchers, particularly if they are drawing on multilingual data. In this paper, four examples of cross-linguistic CADS challenges are drawn from two cases in Canada, a country that contains a diverse population that is indexed by two official languages, English and French. I conclude this paper by suggesting solutions for each of these issues and call for more research into the comparative nature of cross-linguistic CADS research.
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Liberman, Mark Y. "Corpus Phonetics." Annual Review of Linguistics 5, no. 1 (January 14, 2019): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-033830.
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Semiautomatic analysis of digital speech collections is transforming the science of phonetics. Convenient search and analysis of large published bodies of recordings, transcripts, metadata, and annotations—up to three or four orders of magnitude larger than a few decades ago—have created a trend towards “corpus phonetics,” whose benefits include greatly increased researcher productivity, better coverage of variation in speech patterns, and crucial support for reproducibility. The results of this work include insights into theoretical questions at all levels of linguistic analysis, along with applications in fields as diverse as psychology, medicine, and poetics, as well as within phonetics itself. Remaining challenges include still-limited access to the necessary skills and a lack of consistent standards. These changes coincide with the broader Open Data movement, but future solutions will also need to include more constrained forms of publication motivated by valid concerns for privacy, confidentiality, and intellectual property.
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Sardinha, Tony Berber. "Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 11, no. 2 (2011): 329–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982011000200004.
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In this paper, I look at four different aspects of metaphor research from a corpus linguistic perspective, namely: (1) the lexicogrammar of metaphors, which refers to the patterning of linguistic metaphor revealed by corpus analysis; (2) metaphor probabilities, which is a facet of metaphor that emerges from frequency-based studies of metaphor; (3) dimensions of metaphor variation, or the search for systematic parameters of variation in metaphor use across different registers; and (4) automated metaphor retrieval, which relates to the development of software to help identify metaphors in corpora. I argue that these four aspects are interrelated, and that advances in one of them can drive changes in the others.
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Vazanova, M., and Z. Yakushkina. "Using the corpus of texts in forensic linguistic analysis." Bulletin of the Karaganda University. Philology series 99, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.31489/2020ph3/14-19.
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This paper discusses the specificity of the modern period of language development, which is characterized by a pressing social need to legitimize the rules of using a language in politics and in the media. It also shows some examples of how to use a corpus of text in linguistic analysis. There are given еxamples of newspaper Использование корпуса текстов при лингвистической экспертизе Серия «Филология». № 3(99)/2020 19 publications and statements by famous people where they are using offensive language, which is addressed to specific people and societies. We apply linguistic analysis of words to these publications and statements using corpus of texts in a similar way to John Sinclair, the creator of the first English database of the corpus texts, and other linguists. We thereby attempt to demonstrate, both the ease of use of corpus texts in linguistic analysis, and that the conclusions we made are fully substantiated. We also present examples of cases where words that are familiar and often used in everyday speech are not always understood clearly, which can lead to misunderstanding and litigation.
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Coimbra-Gomes, Elvis, and Heiko Motschenbacher. "Language, normativity, and sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD): A corpus-assisted discourse analysis." Language in Society 48, no. 4 (August 21, 2019): 565–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404519000423.
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AbstractThis article presents a case study of the discursive construction of sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD) as it surfaces in posts to an online mental health forum. SO-OCD is an anxiety disorder that involves having unwanted, intrusive thoughts as a consequence of conflict with normative sexual beliefs. The study focuses on the way normativity regulates communication about sexual identities, desires, and practices in a corpus of online posts by heterosexual men who pathologically doubt their sexual identity. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative corpus linguistic methods, we investigate how writers linguistically orient to normativity in their posts. More specifically, analyses of keywords, n-grams, and concordances are used to uncover linguistic mechanisms that play a central role in users’ orientation to normativity and in the obsessive-compulsive behaviours associated with SO-OCD. (Sexual orientation obsessive-compulsive disorder (SO-OCD), heterosexuality, masculinity, normativity, heteronormativity, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics)
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Goldfarb, Neal. "The Use of Corpus Linguistics in Legal Interpretation." Annual Review of Linguistics 7, no. 1 (January 14, 2021): 473–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-050520-093942.
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Over the past decade, the idea of using corpus linguistics in legal interpretation has attracted interest on the part of judges, lawyers, and legal academics in the United States. This review provides an introduction to this nascent movement, which is generally referred to as Law and Corpus Linguistics (LCL). After briefly summarizing LCL's origin and development, I situate LCL within legal interpretation by discussing the legal concept of ordinary meaning, which establishes the framework within which LCL operates. Next, I situate LCL within linguistics by identifying the subfields that are most relevant to LCL. I then offer a linguistic justification for an idea that is implicit in the case law and that provides important support for using corpus analysis in legal interpretation: that data about patterns of usage provide evidence of how words and other expressions are ordinarily understood. I go on to discuss linguistic issues that arise from the use of corpus linguistics in disputes that involve lexical ambiguity and categorization. Finally, I point out some challenges that the growth of LCL will present for both legal professionals and linguists.
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Fattah, Ashraf, and Rashid Yahiaoui. "Contrastive Analysis of Concessive Conjunctions in Translated and Non-translated Arabic Texts: An Exploratory Study." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 4 (October 1, 2019): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.4p.28.
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This study seeks to contribute to addressing a gap in theory-driven corpus-based research focused on the so-called translation specific features (TSF) in Arabic translated texts. It provides a contrastive Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)-informed analysis of concessive/contrastive connective markers in a selected comparable corpus made up of translated and non-translated Arabic texts. This area of corpus-based research has been mainly driven by an interest in the linguistic features distinguishing translated from non-translated texts. The characteristic feature of the present study is the fact that it is based on a comparable corpus of translated and non-translated texts written by the same authors in more or less the same genre. Based on a comparison of concordance data, the study will highlight some interesting patterns of difference in the types and frequencies of concessive conjunctions used, as well as ‘explicitating’ and ‘upgrading’ tendencies between the two components of the corpus. Viewed from an SFL perspective, some such differences do not seem to be triggered by the English source texts involved or dictated by contrastive linguistic requirements but rather by the translation process itself.
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Salway, Andrew, and James Baker. "Investigating Curatorial Voice with Corpus Linguistic Techniques." Museum and Society 18, no. 2 (July 4, 2020): 151–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v18i2.3175.
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We seek to demonstrate how corpus linguistic techniques can facilitate a comprehensive account of curatorial voice in a large digitised museum catalogue and hence leverage its value as a resource for generating new knowledge about: curatorial practice; the historical and cultural contexts of curation; and, the content of collections. We worked with 1.1 million words written by the historian M. Dorothy George between 1930 and 1954 to describe 9330 late-Georgian satirical prints. George’s curatorial descriptions were analysed in terms of their typical informational content and with regards to the extent George included interpretation and evaluation in her descriptions. We discuss how results from such analyses can provide a basis for addressing questions about George’s curatorial voice and, more generally, suggest how this approach could benefit museological practice around the production of descriptions and the re-purposing of legacy catalogues for digital access and analysis of collections.
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McIlroy, Tara. "Interview: Talking with Michael Toolan about stylistics, coherence, and language teaching." Language Teacher 38, no. 3 (May 1, 2014): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.37546/jalttlt38.3-2.
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Michael Toolan is a stylistician with a particular interest in narrative analysis, creativity, and language in literature. In this interview he talks about his teaching and research, some aspects of narrative studies, and how stylistics research makes increasing use of corpus linguistics and often features multimodality. His single-authored books include The Stylistics of Fiction (1988), Total Speech (1996), Language in Literature (1998) and Narrative (2nd ed., 2001). Much of his work is supervising masters and PhD research at the University of Birmingham, UK, in the areas of corpus linguistic and critical discourse analysis of mass media, stylistic analysis of poetry (especially 20th/21st century), linguistic analysis of literary narratives, and integrational linguistic theory. He was a visiting consultant at Kanda University of International Studies in December 2013.
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Law, Locky. "Creativity and television drama: a corpus-based multimodal analysis of pattern-reforming creativity in House M.D." Corpora 14, no. 2 (August 2019): 135–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2019.0167.
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Carter's (2004) theory of creativity in everyday common talk is by far the most influential in the field. He hypothesises that linguistic creativity can be categorised into pattern-forming and pattern-reforming creativity. Television drama, despite its global popularity, receives little attention from the field of linguistics. This paper aims to explore the ‘common ground’ in television drama dialogue and linguistic creativity through deciphering how pattern-reforming creativity is realised through screenplay, telecinemato-graphy and acting as meaning-making strategies. Using dialogues from the TV medical dramedy House M.D., a corpus was created to facilitate the extraction of pattern-reforming creativity such as neologisms, portmanteaus and slang words. The extracted data was then analysed using a corpus linguistic approach to multimodal discourse analysis. The analysis reveals a strong association of pattern-reforming creativity production with actor's facial performance realised interpersonally by certain types of telecinematic resources, such as visual framing, camera angle, camera movement and proxemics. This research is a pioneering effort in linking up linguistic creativity with multimodality and is a positive driving force towards research in teledramatic discourse.
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Oktavianti, Ikmi Nur. "Corpora: From theoretical linguistics to language teaching." UAD TEFL International Conference 2 (January 16, 2021): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/utic.v2.5731.2019.
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Corpus has gained its popularity in linguistics over the past five decades, from the computerized storage of English language in Survey of English Usage in 1959 to the ongoing development of Corpus of Contemporary American English. Because of the huge size of actual language data compiled in corpora, many linguists and language teachers working with English language have benefited from them in linguistic research and teaching practice. Up to now, there are innumerable English online corpora recording data from various genres, modes, and regions as well as corpus tools to analyze self-compiled corpus. The massive development of corpora, however, has not been widely discussed among English language researchers and practitioners in Indonesia, let alone in English language teaching. Although linguistics and language teaching are two inseparable and firmly related fields, corpus as a concept and product of linguistics seems ignored or even avoided. This paper then aims to review the nature of corpus and how it is used to assist linguistic analysis. More importantly, this paper discusses another possible application of corpus, e.g., the use of corpus in teaching language. Considering the nature and the benefits of using corpora, it is then important to promote the use of corpus to enhance English language teaching and learning, either directly in the classrooms or indirectly in materials development.
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Mattioli, Virginia, and Karen McAuliffe. "A corpus-based study on opinions of advocates general of the court of justice of the European Union: changes in language and style." International Journal of Legal Discourse 6, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 87–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijld-2021-2047.
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Abstract This paper presents a Corpus Linguistics study of lexical features in the Opinions of Advocates General (AGs) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Using an interdisciplinary approach, combining legal studies, corpus linguistics and translation studies theories, the study aims to compare the language of some AGs’ Opinions, before and after the introduction of changes in the CJEU’s linguistic regime relating to the language(s) in which Opinions are normally drafted. The results of the corpus linguistic analysis demonstrate that certain changes in the linguistic and stylistic nature of AGs’ Opinions can be observed post-2004. On the one hand, those changes corroborate the study’s primary hypothesis that AG Opinions drafted after 2004 in non-mother tongue languages are stylistically simpler and less ‘fluent’ than those drafted (in AGs’ mother tongues) before 2004. On the other hand, the results also indicate that AG Opinions drafted after 2004 in mother tongue languages are similarly becoming stylistically simpler. These results are inherently interesting in terms of Corpus Linguistics research. However, in order to have a value outside of that field, they are best considered as a basis for more nuanced research questions, which can be investigated through interdisciplinary methods taking account of the factors of production of AG Opinions.
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Oliveira, Iasmine. "Robert Frost’s poems: some light from corpus analysis." Revele: Revista Virtual dos Estudantes de Letras 7 (June 30, 2014): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2317-4242.7.0.125-139.
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Linguistics and literature seem distant fields, but they can be related. This study aims at doing a discourse analysis of Robert Frost’s poems using a corpus to investigate the most frequent semantic domain in his poetry. This analysis should also allow us to make connections with his personal life. A corpus composed by 35 poems of Frost (3,725 words) was investigated focusing on nouns. The corpus was tagged by CLAWS 7 and AntConc was the software used to generate the frequency lists and concordance lines for the analysis. Results of this research indicate that 26% of the nouns are related to nature. A connection between people and the nature elements was verified in 91% of the poems, which suggests that human experiences are portrayed through this relation. Furthermore, nature nouns may be found in different linguistic environment, affecting how they are portrayed: 31% is positive (e.g. bright flowers), 32% is negative (e.g. heavy sky) and 37% is neutral (e.g mowing field). Therefore, nature nouns can also be understood by their semantic prosody. If nature is depicted positively, negatively or neutrally, it is where “man finds himself” (LYNEN, 1962, p. 177). Frost’s poems consider all the conflicts that surround a man’s life.Key words: Robert Frost, literature, corpus linguistics, nouns, nature.
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Motschenbacher, Heiko, and Eka Roivainen. "Personality traits, adjectives and gender." Journal of Language and Discrimination 4, no. 1 (May 6, 2020): 16–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jld.40370.
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There have been linguistic studies on the gendering mechanisms of adjectives and psychological studies on the relationship between personality traits and gender, but the two fields have never entered into a dialogue on these issues. This article seeks to address this gap by presenting an interdisciplinary study that explores the gendering mechanisms associated with personality traits and personality trait-denoting adjectives. The findings of earlier work in this area and basic gendering mechanisms relevant to adjectives and personality traits are outlined. This is followed by a linguistic and a psychological analysis of the usage patterns of a set of personality trait adjectives. The linguistic section draws on corpus linguistics to explore the distribution of these adjectives with female, male and gender-neutral personal nouns in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The psychological analysis relates the usage frequencies of personality trait adjectives with the nouns man, woman and person in the Google Books corpus to desirability ratings of the adjectives.
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Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, and Christoph Wolk. "Holistic corpus-based dialectology." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 11, no. 2 (2011): 561–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982011000200011.
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This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry', in exactly this spirit. Specifically, we argue that in order to live up to the potential of the corpus-based method, practitioners need to (i) abandon their exclusive focus on individual linguistic features in favor of the study of feature aggregates, (ii) draw on computationally advanced multivariate analysis techniques (such as multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, and principal component analysis), and (iii) aid interpretation of empirical results by marshalling state-of-the-art data visualization techniques. To exemplify this line of analysis, we present a case study which explores joint frequency variability of 57 morphosyntax features in 34 dialects all over Great Britain.
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Horch, Stephanie. "Complementing corpus analysis with web-based experimentation in research on World Englishes." English World-Wide 40, no. 1 (February 1, 2019): 24–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.00021.hor.
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Abstract Usage-based research in linguistics has to a large extent relied on corpus data. However, a feature’s “failure to appear in even a very large corpus (such as the Web) is not evidence for ungrammaticality, nor is appearance evidence for grammaticality” (Schütze and Sprouse 2013: 29). It is therefore advisable to complement corpus-based analyses with experimental data, so as to (ideally) obtain converging evidence. This paper reviews reasons for combining corpus linguistic with psycholinguistic experimental methods, and demonstrates how research on varieties of English can profit from experimentation. For a study of conversion in Asian Englishes, the maze task (Forster, Guerrera, and Elliot 2009; Forster 2010) was implemented with a web-based, open-source software. The results of the experiment dovetail with a previous analysis of the Corpus of Global Web-based English (Davies 2013). These results should encourage researchers not to base findings exclusively on corpus evidence, but corroborate them by means of experimental data.
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Almela, Ángela. "A Corpus-Based Study of Linguistic Deception in Spanish." Applied Sciences 11, no. 19 (September 23, 2021): 8817. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11198817.
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In the last decade, fields such as psychology and natural language processing have devoted considerable attention to the automatization of the process of deception detection, developing and employing a wide array of automated and computer-assisted methods for this purpose. Similarly, another emerging research area is focusing on computer-assisted deception detection using linguistics, with promising results. Accordingly, in the present article, the reader is firstly provided with an overall review of the state of the art of corpus-based research exploring linguistic cues to deception as well as an overview on several approaches to the study of deception and on previous research into its linguistic detection. In an effort to promote corpus-based research in this context, this study explores linguistic cues to deception in the Spanish written language with the aid of an automatic text classification tool, by means of an ad hoc corpus containing ground truth data. Interestingly, the key findings reveal that, although there is a set of linguistic cues which contributes to the global statistical classification model, there are some discursive differences across the subcorpora, yielding better classification results on the analysis conducted on the subcorpus containing emotionally loaded language.
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Lemmouh, Zakaria. "A Critical Linguistic analysis of the representation of Muslims in The New York Times." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 21, no. 40 (August 28, 2017): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v21i40.96798.
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The aim of this study is to shed light on recurring lexical and syntactic features that contribute to a stereotyped image of out-groups in newspapers. The focus of the study is on articles relating to Muslims in The New York Times. The analysis is based on the analytic paradigm of Critical Linguistics (CL) and Corpus Semantics (CS). The results show that the linguistic features analysed point to a systematic ‘othering’ and stereotyping of Muslims as compared to other participants. The study concludes with a discussion on how the grammatical features examined work together to project a stereotyped image of Muslims and how the analytical method of Critical Linguistics (CL) copes with a quantitative analysis of a great deal of randomly chosen data from a corpus consisting of newspapers from the New York Times.
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Faya Ornia, Goretti. "Revisión y propuesta de clasificación de corpus." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 60, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 234–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.60.2.06fay.
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In this article we first focus on some of the most important classification systems of linguistic corpora and discuss both the strengths and weaknesses. We pay close attention to the work of Sara Laviosa (1997), Joan Torruella y Joaquim Llisterri (1999), Gloria Corpas Pastor (2001) and Sylviane Granger (2003), not forgetting the contributions by Mona Baker (1995), Stig Johansson (1998 and 2003), Rosa Rabadán y Purificación Fernández Nistal (2002), Maeve Olohan (2004) and Paul Baker (2006). However, despite great advantage of all previous work, our study identified gaps for which we would respectfully suggest some solutions. Finally, we present our classification system in which we attempt to reflect clearly the hierarchical relationships that exist between different types of corpora. The ultimate goal is to offer a wide, comprehensive and flexible classification, which can be easily adapted to the needs of each research work and meet the requirements of linguistic corpora analysis, particularly in the field of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies.
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Nabu, Andiani Rezkita. "Semantic Prosody Analysis of 'Talking a lot' Words." Al-Lisan 5, no. 2 (September 6, 2020): 182–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.30603/al.v6i2.1343.
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Due to sentence formation, the lexicon choice appears as a crucial phase of writing. Moreover, it is caused by the emptiness of words set that are perfectly synonymous and can be interchangeable. In order that it leads the needed for meaning, sense, and evocative value identification in the choice of the lexicon. Furthermore, the main objective of this research is to examine the value (sense) of several lexicons, which means 'talking a lot' such as talkative, loquacious, chatty, gossipy, garrulous, talky, and conversational, by using cognitive-linguistic and corpus linguistic approaches. In this case, the researcher examined the lexicon values based on the distinguishing semantic features and semantic prosody of the lexicons. As a linguistic corpus study, this study involved a number of data derived from COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English), the Oxford dictionary (online), and the Merriam-Webster dictionary (online). Hence, this study found that the distinctive features of the lexicons are the subject, the object, the type of communication, the type of information, and the causes. Therefore, the semantic prosody in translation practices applies in corpus-based approach translation. It can facilitate a translator to comprehend new words and improve the quality of translation work.
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Ali, Mazhar, and Asim Imdad Wagan. "An Analysis of Sindhi Annotated Corpus using Supervised Machine Learning Methods." January 2019 38, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.22581/muet1982.1901.15.
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The linguistic corpus of Sindhi language is significant for computational linguistics process, machine learning process, language features identification and analysis, semantic and sentiment analysis, information retrieval and so on. There is little computational linguistics work done on Sindhi text whereas, English, Arabic, Urdu and some other languages are fully resourced computationally. The grammar and morphemes of these languages are analyzed properly using dissimilar machine learning methods. The development and research work regarding computational linguistics are in progress on Sindhi language at this time. This study is planned to develop the Sindhi annotated corpus using universal POS (Part of Speech) tag set and Sindhi POS tag set for the purpose of language features and variation analysis. The features are extracted using TF-IDF (Term Frequency and Inverse Document Frequency) technique. The supervised machine learning model is developed to assess the annotated corpus to know the grammatical annotation of Sindhi language. The model is trained with 80% of annotated corpus and tested with 20% of test set. The cross-validation technique with 10-folds is utilized to evaluate and validate the model. The results of model show the better performance of model as well as confirm the proper annotation to Sindhi corpus. This study described a number of research gaps to work more on topic modeling, language variation, sentiment and semantic analysis of Sindhi language.
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Gu, Yueguo. "Multimodal text analysis: A corpus linguistic approach to situated discourse." Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies 26, no. 2 (January 20, 2006): 127–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text.2006.007.
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Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara. "Comparing languages and cultures: Parametrization of analytic criteria." Russian Journal of Linguistics 25, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 343–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-2-343-368.
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The focus of the paper is to present arguments in favour of a complex set of areas of reference in cross-linguistic analyses of meanings, aimed in particular at the identification of a set of relevant analytic criteria to perform such a comparison. The arguments are based on lexicographic and corpus linguistic data and specifically on the polysemic concept of integrity in English and its lexical counterparts in Polish. It is generally assumed in Cognitive Linguistics, which is taken as the basic framework of the present study, that meanings, which are defined as convention-based conceptualizations, are not discrete entities, fully determined, even in fuller context but rather they are dynamic conventional conceptualizations[13]. Therefore, it is considered essential to identify first their basic, prototypical senses and then their broad meanings , which include, apart from the core part, their contextual, culture-specific, and connotational properties, defined in terms of a parametrized set of semasiological as well as onomasiological properties. The study methodology has also been adjusted towards this multifocused analysis of linguistic forms and considers the interdisciplinary - linguistic, psychological, cultural and social domains to identify the cultural conceptualizations of the analysed forms. In the present case a cognitive corpus-based analysis in monolinguistic English contexts and in the English-to-Polish and Polish-to-English translation data of lexicographic and parallel corpus materials, as well as cultural dimensions will be exemplified to conclude with a parametrized system of cognitive cross-linguistic tertia comparationis to more fully determine their broad linguistic meanings.
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Xu, Qi. "Application of Learner Corpora to Second Language Learning and Teaching: An Overview." English Language Teaching 9, no. 8 (June 11, 2016): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n8p46.
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<p>The paper gives an overview of learner corpora and their application to second language learning and teaching. It is proposed that there are four core components in learner corpus research, namely, corpus linguistics expertise, a good background in linguistic theory, knowledge of SLA theory, and a good understanding of foreign language teaching issues (Granger, 2009). Based on the above components, the present paper first introduces learner corpora, then reviews literature concerning the application of corpus linguistics to SLA by means of contrastive interlanguage analysis, and at last discusses the relationship between learner corpora and foreign language teaching.</p>
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Sardinha, Tony Berber. "Metaphor in corpora: a corpus-driven analysis of Applied Linguistics dissertations." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 7, no. 1 (2007): 11–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982007000100002.
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This study develops a methodology for finding metaphors in corpora. The procedure is based on the wish that, without a prior list of metaphors, the computer would provide a number of possible metaphor candidates. The methodology works by selecting an initial pool of word types in the corpus, finding shared collocates between pairs of those words and then computing a semantic distance measure for those word pairs which have a requisite number of mutual collocates. Cases which satisfy these criteria were then concordanced and interpreted. This methodology was applied to a corpus of MA dissertations in Applied Linguistics, completed in Brazil. The paper highlights the importance of the use of metaphors by novice Applied Linguistic researchers.
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Fischer-Starcke, Bettina. "Keywords and frequent phrases of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14, no. 4 (December 15, 2009): 492–523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.14.4.03fis.
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Corpus linguistic analyses reveal meanings and structural features of data, that cannot be detected intuitively. This has been amply demonstrated with regard to non-fiction data, but fiction texts have only rarely been analysed by corpus linguistic techniques. This is the case even though it has been shown by previous analyses that corpus stylistic analyses reveal literary meanings of the data that are left undetected by the intuitive analyses of literary criticism. The analysis of the keywords and most frequent phrases of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice presented in this article confirms this claim by uncovering meanings that are not discussed in literary critical secondary sources. This constitutes evidence for the large potential of corpus stylistics for the analysis of literature and its meanings.
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Zibalas, Deividas, and Jolanta Šinkūnienė. "RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF PROMOTIONAL GENRES: THE CASE OF RESEARCH ARTICLE AND CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS." Discourse and Interaction 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 95–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/di2019-2-95.
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This paper focuses on the rhetorical structure of research article and conference abstracts in Linguistics. The study employs quantitative and qualitative analysis and is based on a self-compiled corpus of abstracts from two prestigious linguistic journals (Linguistics and The Journal of Linguistics) and conference abstracts from the 49 th Annual Meeting of the international society of linguists Societas Linguistica Europaea. The results show that the key moves (‘Background’, ‘Purpose’, ‘Methods’, ‘Results’) are distributed fairly similarly across the two types of abstracts; however, the ways they are employed are not always similar. Two additional moves were identified in our data set (‘Niche Opening’ and ‘Announcing Position’), which signal different promotional strategies employed by researchers.
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Tomczak-Boczko, Justyna. "Persiguiendo al macho. Análisis cualitativo de los córpora." Estudios Hispánicos 26 (November 15, 2018): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/2084-2546.26.11.
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Chasing the macho. Qualitative analysis of corporaThe main purpose of this article is to reconstruct the linguistic stereotype of the macho in the Mexican Spanish. The applied methodology is a qualitative analysis of various corpora: Corpus del Proyecto para el estudio sociolingüístico del español de España y de América PRESEEA, Corpus de las Sexualidades de México, Corpus Histórico del Español en México, Corpus del Español Mexicano Contemporáneo CEMC, Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual de la Real Academia Española CREA and Corpus de Español del Siglo XXI CORPES XXI. As a result, we have a description of how the macho should look like, behave, treat women and other men. However, the results prove also that the word “macho” is rarely used by the Mexicans and this conclusion requires further investigation.
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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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Sun, Ya, Gongyuan Wang, and Haiying Feng. "Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (July 2021): 215824402110475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211047572.
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This study aimed to present the status quo of linguistic studies on social media in the past decade. In particular, it conducted a bibliometric analysis of articles from the field of linguistics of the database of Web of Science Core Collection with the aid of the tool CiteSpace to identify the general characteristics, major strands of linguistics, main research methods, and important research themes in the area of linguistic studies on social media. The main findings are summarized as follows. First, the study reported the publication trend, main publication venues, researched social media platforms, and languages used in researched social media. Second, sociolinguistics and pragmatics were found to be major strands of linguistics used in relevant studies. Third, the study identified seven main research methods: discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, multimodal analysis, narrative analysis, ethnographic analysis, and corpus analysis. Fourth, important research themes were extracted and classified based on four dimensions of the genre framework of social media studies. They were the participation nature and technology affordances of social media in the dimension of compositional level, the researched topics of education, (language) policy and politics in the dimension of thematic orientations, the researched discursive practices of (im)politeness, humor, indexicality and multilingualism in the dimension of stylistic traits, and the researched communicative functions of constructing identity, communicating (language) ideology, and expressing attitude in the pragmatic dimension. Moreover, linguistic studies on social media tended to be characterized by cross-disciplinary and mixed-method approaches.
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Wild, Kate, Andrew Church, Diana McCarthy, and Jacquelin Burgess. "Quantifying lexical usage: vocabulary pertaining to ecosystems and the environment." Corpora 8, no. 1 (May 2013): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2013.0034.
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A recent development in corpus linguistics has been the integration of critical discourse methodologies, which allow in-depth contextual and qualitative analyses, with corpus linguistic methodologies, which allow broader quantitative analyses. Our study is a contribution to this approach. We present the methods used in a study of vocabulary pertaining to the environment, undertaken as part of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. A clear and replicable methodology was developed and applied to three custom-built specialised web corpora and a reference web corpus; automatic analysis of collocations found using the Sketch Engine was complemented by manual analysis; and a small-scale replicability check was carried out to ensure that investigator divergence was minimal. We outline the approach and some of the key findings, and we also suggest areas for further refinement/investigation.
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Mompean, Jose A., and Javier Valenzuela Manzanares. "Brexit means Brexit: a constructionist analysis." Complutense Journal of English Studies 27 (October 4, 2019): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.64263.
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This paper presents a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the Brexit means Brexit tautology from a constructionist perspective. A multimodal corpus of instances of the construction was compiled and analyzed, paying attention to the components of the construction such as its phonetic-phonological and gestural features as well as the idealized cognitive models underlying the use of the tautology in discourse. This study also addresses how different semantic-pragmatic uses have an impact on the linguistic form (e.g. prosody, gesture) and emphasizes the fluid interaction between linguistic meaning/form and the social and cultural context in which language is used. It is argued that a full understanding of any construction requires a multimodal, discourse-based analysis.