Overcoming Challenges In Corpus Construction

Author : Robbie Love
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429771095

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Overcoming Challenges in Corpus Construction by Robbie Love Pdf

This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed understanding of corpus linguistic methodology more broadly. The book begins by situating the creation of this second corpus, a compilation of new, publicly-accessible Spoken British English from the 2010s, within the context of the first, created in 1994, talking through the need to balance backward capability and optimal practice for today’s users. Chapters subsequently use the Spoken BNC2014 as a focal point around which to discuss the various considerations taken into account in corpus construction, including design, data collection, transcription, and annotation. The volume concludes by reflecting on the successes and limitations of the project, as well as the broader utility of the corpus in linguistic research, both in current examples and future possibilities. This exciting new contribution to the literature on linguistic methodology is a valuable resource for students and researchers in corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, and English language teaching.

Author : Dawn Knight,Steve Morris,Tess Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030724849

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Corpus Design and Construction in Minoritised Language Contexts - Cynllunio a Chreu Corpws mewn Cyd-destunau Ieithoedd Lleiafrifoledig by Dawn Knight,Steve Morris,Tess Fitzpatrick Pdf

This bilingual book provides a detailed overview of the project to construct a National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh (CorCenCC), addressing the conceptual and methodological challenges faced when developing language corpora for minoritised languages. A conceptual framework is presented for the user-driven design that underpinned the CorCenCC project, along with a detailed blueprint that can function as a scaffold for other researchers embarking on projects of this nature. This book will be of value to those working in language teaching, learning and assessment, language policy and planning, translation, corpus linguistics and language technology, and to anyone with an interest in Welsh and other minoritised languages. Mae'r llyfr dwyieithog hwn yn rhoi trosolwg manwl o'r prosiect i greu Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes (CorCenCC), ac yn mynd i'r afael â'r heriau cysyniadol a methodolegol a wynebir wrth ddatblygu corpora iaith ar gyfer ieithoedd lleiafrifoledig. Cyflwynir fframwaith cysyniadol ar gyfer y cynllun wedi'i yrru gan ddefnyddwyr sy'n greiddiol i brosiect CorCenCC, ynghyd â glasbrint manwl a all weithredu fel sgaffald i ymchwilwyr eraill sy'n dechrau ar brosiectau o'r fath. Bydd y llyfr hwn o werth i'r rhai sy'n gweithio ym meysydd addysgu, dysgu ac asesu ieithoedd, polisi iaith a chynllunio ieithyddol, cyfieithu, ieithyddiaeth gorpws a thechnoleg iaith, ac unrhyw un â diddordeb yn y Gymraeg ac ieithoedd lleiafrifoledig eraill.

Author : Anne O'Keeffe,Michael J. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429632648

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics by Anne O'Keeffe,Michael J. McCarthy Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics 2e provides an updated overview of a dynamic and rapidly growing area with a widely applied methodology. Over a decade on from the first edition of the Handbook, this collection of 47 chapters from experts in key areas offers a comprehensive introduction to both the development and use of corpora as well as their ever-evolving applications to other areas, such as digital humanities, sociolinguistics, stylistics, translation studies, materials design, language teaching and teacher development, media discourse, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, second language acquisition and testing. The new edition updates all core chapters and includes new chapters on corpus linguistics and statistics, digital humanities, translation, phonetics and phonology, second language acquisition, social media and theoretical perspectives. Chapters provide annotated further reading lists and step-by-step guides as well as detailed overviews across a wide range of themes. The Handbook also includes a wealth of case studies that draw on some of the many new corpora and corpus tools that have emerged in the last decade. Organised across four themes, moving from the basic start-up topics such as corpus building and design to analysis, application and reflection, this second edition remains a crucial point of reference for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in applied linguistics.

Author : Dawn Knight,Steve Morris,Laura Arman,Jennifer Needs,Mair Rees
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030818586

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Building a National Corpus by Dawn Knight,Steve Morris,Laura Arman,Jennifer Needs,Mair Rees Pdf

This book aims to provide a micro-level, working model of a methodological approach and practical guidelines for building a corpus, informed by the work on the CorCenCC project (Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes - the National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh). It focuses specifically on the development of detailed design frames for corpora across communicative modes (spoken, written and e-language), and the practical processes involved in the planning, collection, transcription, collation and (re)presentation of language data. The book is designed to be of significant value and relevance to those interested in critically engaging with corpus methodology. Although Welsh is the language under discussion, the processes and approaches discussed in the building of CorCenCC can be applied to a lesser or greater extent to other language contexts. This book provides a working model, and an account of how to build a corpus dataset from which step by step guidelines for creating other linguistic corpora in any language can be easily extrapolated. It will be of value to students and scholars of minority languages and corpus linguistics.

Author : Rafael Alejo-González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040002858

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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics by Rafael Alejo-González Pdf

Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus offers a model for building a corpus of oral EMI seminars. It demonstrates how incorporating metaphor to the process of corpus building affords a more comprehensive description of the role of metaphor in discourse. EMI is the specific context outlined in this volume, and as such it will be of particular interest to researchers in this area, though the design and model can be easily generalised and applied to other corpora focusing on metaphor. Alejo-González argues for the need to build such a corpus given the scarcity of corpora being tagged for metaphor as well as the shortage of those dealing with the EMI phenomenon. This book will be of practical use and interest to those researchers of corpus linguistics or related areas looking to explore metaphor through their corpus studies.

Author : Frazer Heritage,Charlotte Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040018989

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Analysing Representation by Frazer Heritage,Charlotte Taylor Pdf

Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis. This book takes a step-by-step approach to introducing each concept and includes exercises and further reading to help readers check their progress and prepare for independent research. It is unique in introducing readers to a range of experts representing the full range of work in this area. This book is aimed at final-year undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level students. It wil also be useful to scholars who are new to combining corpus and discourse methods in investigations of representation.

Author : Susanne Flach,Martin Hilpert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027256980

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Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics by Susanne Flach,Martin Hilpert Pdf

This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis, and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields.

Author : Mathew Gillings,Gerlinde Mautner,Paul Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009197878

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Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies by Mathew Gillings,Gerlinde Mautner,Paul Baker Pdf

The breadth and spread of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) indicate its usefulness for exploring language use within a social context. However, its theoretical foundations, limitations, and its epistemological implications must be considered so that we can adjust our research designs accordingly. This Element focuses on important meta-level questions around epistemology, while also offering a compact guide to which corpus linguistic tools are available and how they can contribute to finding out more about discourse. This Element will appeal to researchers both new and experienced, both within the CADS community and beyond.

Author : Tony McEnery,Vaclav Brezina
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009428989

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Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics by Tony McEnery,Vaclav Brezina Pdf

How might evidence of language use – writing and speech – be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying language, and there is still a degree of divergence in how research questions are approached using corpus data. This book uses a framework, based on the work of Karl Popper, to explore a number of fundamental issues in corpus linguistics. It critically evaluates how these issues are tackled, and proposes a set of best practices for future research. It spells out why using corpus data is valuable, what we can learn from using it, and how we may most effectively progress our understanding of language by using such data. It is essential reading for researchers and students of language in general, and of applied linguistics and English language in particular.

Author : Charles F. Meyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009365420

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English Corpus Linguistics by Charles F. Meyer Pdf

Corpus linguistics is a research method which draws on authentic language examples, collected and organized into 'corpora', or searchable 'bodies' of data. The method was established in the 1960s, and has rapidly developed since then. Now in its second edition, this book provides a step-by-step guide on how to create and analyze linguistic corpora. It has been extensively updated to reflect the most recent developments in this ever-evolving field, and now covers the empirical foundation of corpus-based research, new methodological considerations that guide the creation of a corpus, new kinds of research that can be conducted on corpora, and the most up-to-date information on how qualitative and quantitative analyses of corpora are conducted. Theoretical approaches are introduced in an accessible, easy-to-read way, and the book is illustrated with a wide range of different linguistic corpora, making it essential reading for researchers and students in a number of subfields of linguistics.

Author : Matteo Di Cristofaro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000915594

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Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media by Matteo Di Cristofaro Pdf

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current approaches, and offering guidelines and best practices for doing language analysis. The book provides an overview of how language in social media has been approached by linguists and non-linguists, before delving into the identification of the datasets requirements needed to pursue investigations in social media, and of the technical aspects of particular platforms that may influence the analysis, such as emoticons, retweets, and metadata. Sample Python code, along with general guidelines for using it, is provided to empower researchers to apply these techniques in their own work, supported by actual examples from three real-life case studies. Di Cristofaro highlights the full potential of using these methodologies in analysing social media language data and the ways in which they might pave the way for future applications of data analysis and processing for corpus linguistics. The book will be key reading for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguists and social scientists interested in data-driven analysis of social media.

Author : Fred Paas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031607776

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Recent Trends in Educational Technology and Administration by Fred Paas Pdf

Author : Andrew K.F. Cheung,Kanglong Liu,Riccardo Moratto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003820475

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Corpora in Interpreting Studies by Andrew K.F. Cheung,Kanglong Liu,Riccardo Moratto Pdf

Cheung, Liu, Moratto, and their contributors examine how corpora can be effectively harnessed to benefit interpreting practice and research in East Asian settings. In comparison to the achievements made in the field of corpus- based translation studies, the use of corpora in interpreting is not comparable in terms of scope, methods, and agenda. One of the predicaments that hampers this line of inquiry is the lack of systematic corpora to document spoken language. This issue is even more pronounced when dealing with East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which are typologically different from European languages. As language plays a pivotal role in interpreting research, the use of corpora in interpreting within East Asian contexts has its own distinct characteristics as well as methodological constraints and concerns. However, it also generates new insights and findings that can significantly advance this research field. A valuable resource for scholars of scholars focusing on corpus interpreting, particularly those dealing with East Asian languages.

Author : Maggie Charles,Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000368789

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Corpora in ESP/EAP Writing Instruction by Maggie Charles,Ana Frankenberg-Garcia Pdf

This collection showcases the latest innovations in research on the application of corpora and corpus-based methods in ESP/EAP writing instruction and the many ways in which corpora can be successfully and practically integrated in ESP/EAP programmes. While previous work has discussed the successful use of corpora in teaching writing in the areas of ESP/EAP, this book is the first of its kind to bring the most up-to-date research on the topic together in one place. The volume’s unique structure mirrors the key stages of the writing instruction process, from preparation to exploitation to analysis. The book begins by showing how corpora can be used to prepare materials, moving into an exploration of how students in ESP/EAP programmes use corpora in practice, before bringing the discussion full circle to the ways in which corpus-based approaches might be implemented to analyse ESP/EAP student writing. This approach presents readers with insights into how corpora can be effectively integrated into ESP/EAP writing instruction at every step of the process and opens the way for future areas of study. This book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in applied corpus linguistics, English for Specific Purposes, and English for Academic Purposes, as well as active practitioners in ESP/EAP writing instruction.

Author : Szilvia Szita
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040047064

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Increasing Naturalness in the Language Learning Classroom by Szilvia Szita Pdf

This volume links corpus research to classroom practice and critically assesses how the integration of a corpus-informed methodology affects pedagogical choices, teaching materials and classroom activities. Focusing on the language classroom, and drawing on examples from English, French, German and Hungarian, this book demonstrates that such methodology is applicable to languages with very different properties. Drawing on both larger, general and smaller, more specialised corpora, including both spoken and written data, this volume: presents the key features of natural language according to corpus linguistics, establishing principles and methods to observe and practice natural-sounding language use suggests the characteristics of a coherent, corpus-informed methodology and contrasts this with existing methodologies explores ways in which this methodology can enhance language learning and discusses the types of activities that are most effective explains how this methodology be integrated into teacher training Bridging the long-persisting gap between corpus-informed language teaching research and applied classroom reform, this book is key reading for researchers in applied linguistics and language pedagogy, as well as teacher trainers and practitioners.