{"title":"Review: Le Bruyn and Paquot (eds). 2021. Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition","authors":"W. Crawford","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49557698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The phenomenon of immigration and its depiction in media texts have been examined profusely within the field of corpus-based discourse analysis ( Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008 ; Baker et al., 2013 ; and Blinder and Allen, 2016 ). This research seeks to present it as reflected in a corpus of 600 judicial decisions issued by Spanish courts in the years 2016 and 2017. This analysis was motivated by the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe in recent years. Such parties dehumanise immigrants and portray them as a threat to the welfare state. On first examination, the results appear to dissociate immigration and crime since a considerable percentage of the keywords obtained (about 20 percent) revolves around three major topoi (namely, ‘family’, ‘territory/access’ and ‘legal punishment’) and there is no evidence of any major offences or crimes amongst the top-ranking lexicon. The study of the collocate networks of the keywords within the category ‘legal punishment’ confirms our initial perception; in fact, out of twenty-one collocates, only the word delito (‘crime’) itself collocates with terms referring to typified crimes such as violencia (‘violence’). In parallel, the data were triangulated using the text-classification software UMUTextStats ( García-Díaz et al., 2018 ). The results of this second analysis also confirm our initial observations.
移民现象及其在媒体文本中的描述在基于语料库的话语分析领域得到了广泛的研究(Gabrielatos和Baker, 2008;Baker et al.， 2013;Blinder and Allen, 2016)。本研究试图从西班牙法院在2016年和2017年发布的600个司法判决语料库中反映出这一点。这种分析是受到近年来欧洲极右翼政党崛起的推动。这些政党贬低移民的人性，把他们描绘成福利国家的威胁。在第一次检查中，结果似乎将移民和犯罪分离开来，因为获得的关键词中有相当大比例(约20%)围绕三个主要主题(即“家庭”，“领土/访问”和“法律惩罚”)，并且在排名靠前的词汇中没有任何重大违法或犯罪的证据。对“法律处罚”范畴内关键词搭配网络的研究证实了我们的初步认知;事实上，在21种搭配中，只有delito(“犯罪”)这个词本身与典型犯罪(如violencia(“暴力”))的术语搭配。同时，使用文本分类软件UMUTextStats对数据进行三角测量(García-Díaz et al.， 2018)。第二次分析的结果也证实了我们最初的观察。
{"title":"The representation of migrants in Spanish judicial decisions: using corpus data to refute hate speech","authors":"María José Marín Pérez, Á. Almela","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0253","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of immigration and its depiction in media texts have been examined profusely within the field of corpus-based discourse analysis ( Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008 ; Baker et al., 2013 ; and Blinder and Allen, 2016 ). This research seeks to present it as reflected in a corpus of 600 judicial decisions issued by Spanish courts in the years 2016 and 2017. This analysis was motivated by the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe in recent years. Such parties dehumanise immigrants and portray them as a threat to the welfare state. On first examination, the results appear to dissociate immigration and crime since a considerable percentage of the keywords obtained (about 20 percent) revolves around three major topoi (namely, ‘family’, ‘territory/access’ and ‘legal punishment’) and there is no evidence of any major offences or crimes amongst the top-ranking lexicon. The study of the collocate networks of the keywords within the category ‘legal punishment’ confirms our initial perception; in fact, out of twenty-one collocates, only the word delito (‘crime’) itself collocates with terms referring to typified crimes such as violencia (‘violence’). In parallel, the data were triangulated using the text-classification software UMUTextStats ( García-Díaz et al., 2018 ). The results of this second analysis also confirm our initial observations.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42757298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of English newspaper reportage in two South Asian countries, Pakistan (where English was introduced through colonisation) and Afghanistan (which has not been colonised), and their comparison with British newspaper reportage. The objective of this study is to analyse linguistic variation between the cultural press reportage (cpr) of the selected countries and to see which variety of English, Pakistani or Afghan, resembles British English the most. To achieve this objective, three English newspapers from each country were selected for the compilation of a specialised corpus which was analysed with reference to the five textual dimensions introduced by Biber (1988 , 2006 ). This research is significant as no previous study has attempted to find the differences and similarities between the Englishes used in a formerly colonised country and a country that was never part of the British Empire. The comparison indicates that Pakistani cpr is close to British cpr, while Afghan cpr is different. In terms of Biber’s five textual dimensions, Afghan cpr is more informational, narrative, explicit and abstract, and less non-argumentative in comparison with British and Pakistani cpr.
{"title":"Reporting local cultures in the globalised world: how indigenised can English be in the free world?","authors":"S. Ali, P. Thompson","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0254","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of English newspaper reportage in two South Asian countries, Pakistan (where English was introduced through colonisation) and Afghanistan (which has not been colonised), and their comparison with British newspaper reportage. The objective of this study is to analyse linguistic variation between the cultural press reportage (cpr) of the selected countries and to see which variety of English, Pakistani or Afghan, resembles British English the most. To achieve this objective, three English newspapers from each country were selected for the compilation of a specialised corpus which was analysed with reference to the five textual dimensions introduced by Biber (1988 , 2006 ). This research is significant as no previous study has attempted to find the differences and similarities between the Englishes used in a formerly colonised country and a country that was never part of the British Empire. The comparison indicates that Pakistani cpr is close to British cpr, while Afghan cpr is different. In terms of Biber’s five textual dimensions, Afghan cpr is more informational, narrative, explicit and abstract, and less non-argumentative in comparison with British and Pakistani cpr.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49301474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review: Jonsson and Larsson (eds). 2020. Voices Past and Present – Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In Honor of Merja Kytö","authors":"Mariana Centanin Bertho","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44083644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper investigates the representation of gendered social actors in a specialised corpus of 10.9 million words, collected from five Reddit communities associated with the so-called ‘manosphere’: incels (involuntary celibates), Men Going Their Own Way (male separatists), pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, and a group dedicated to wider discussions of ‘red pill’ philosophy. Thirty-four gendered social actor terms were identified as key-key-words across the manosphere corpora. Both male and female social actors are referenced using relational terms, while the latter are also referenced using derogatory terms and the former are referenced using terms for kinship and in-group identification. We then analysed the consistent collocates ( Baker et al., 2008 ) of the four most frequent gendered social actor terms ( women, girls, men and guys), to establish the topics, descriptions and actions associated with the social actors across the five groups. Gendered social actors were constructed in essentialist dichotomies, with women and girls, although objectified and passivated in dating/sexual contexts, being represented as violent towards male social actors and as holding a privileged position over men in wider society. The anti-feminist ideology reflected in manosphere discourse can be seen as a more extreme version of mainstream discourse. To the extent that manosphere discourse spreads beyond dedicated forums and websites, its views will be re-imported into the mainstream, leading to a wider radicalisation.
这篇论文调查了性别社会行为者在一个1090万字的专业语料库中的表现，这些语料库收集自Reddit上五个与所谓的“管理圈”相关的社区:incels(非自愿的独身者)，Men Going Their Own Way(男性分离主义者)，pick-妹艺人，男性权利活动家，以及一个致力于更广泛讨论“红色药丸”哲学的团体。34个性别社会行为者术语被确定为跨管理圈语料库的关键字。男性和女性社会行动者都使用关系术语，而后者也使用贬义术语，而前者则使用亲属关系和群体内认同术语。然后，我们分析了四个最常见的性别社会行动者术语(妇女、女孩、男人和男孩)的一致搭配(Baker et al.， 2008)，以建立与五个群体的社会行动者相关的主题、描述和行动。性别社会行为者是在本质主义的二分法中构建的，尽管妇女和女孩在约会/性环境中被客观化和钝化，但她们被描述为对男性社会行为者有暴力行为，并且在更广泛的社会中比男性拥有特权地位。庄园话语所反映的反女权主义意识形态，可以看作是主流话语的一种更为极端的版本。在某种程度上，庄园话语传播到专门的论坛和网站之外，它的观点将被重新引入主流，导致更广泛的激进化。
{"title":"The representation of gendered social actors across five manosphere communities on Reddit","authors":"A. Krendel, M. McGlashan, Veronika Koller","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0257","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the representation of gendered social actors in a specialised corpus of 10.9 million words, collected from five Reddit communities associated with the so-called ‘manosphere’: incels (involuntary celibates), Men Going Their Own Way (male separatists), pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, and a group dedicated to wider discussions of ‘red pill’ philosophy. Thirty-four gendered social actor terms were identified as key-key-words across the manosphere corpora. Both male and female social actors are referenced using relational terms, while the latter are also referenced using derogatory terms and the former are referenced using terms for kinship and in-group identification. We then analysed the consistent collocates ( Baker et al., 2008 ) of the four most frequent gendered social actor terms ( women, girls, men and guys), to establish the topics, descriptions and actions associated with the social actors across the five groups. Gendered social actors were constructed in essentialist dichotomies, with women and girls, although objectified and passivated in dating/sexual contexts, being represented as violent towards male social actors and as holding a privileged position over men in wider society. The anti-feminist ideology reflected in manosphere discourse can be seen as a more extreme version of mainstream discourse. To the extent that manosphere discourse spreads beyond dedicated forums and websites, its views will be re-imported into the mainstream, leading to a wider radicalisation.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41748683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We propose a method that models unidirectional, contingency-based association scale ΔP in order to analyse the different degrees of morpheme productivity in apparently identical L1–L2 inflected pairs. The method has the potential to uncover differences in how in L1–L2 inflected items are represented by L2 learners and native speakers. Such differences are at risk of remaining invisible if one considers only frequency, distribution and rank of predicates.
{"title":"Apparently identical verbs can be represented differently: comparing L1–L2 inflection with contingency-based measure ΔP","authors":"Stefano Rastelli, Akira Murakami","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0236","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method that models unidirectional, contingency-based association scale ΔP in order to analyse the different degrees of morpheme productivity in apparently identical L1–L2 inflected pairs. The method has the potential to uncover differences in how in L1–L2 inflected items are represented by L2 learners and native speakers. Such differences are at risk of remaining invisible if one considers only frequency, distribution and rank of predicates.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45522688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chavalin Svetanant, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Attapol T. Rutherford
Advertisements demonstrate patterns of communication that are imagined to be acceptable to the communities at which they are aimed, serving as cultural artefacts that provide insights into shared cultural interpretations and social interactions. Drawing on techniques from corpus linguistics, text linguistics and the Appraisal framework, we conducted an analysis of salient keywords in a collection of Thai and Japanese tv commercials (tvcs) for insurance products in order to identify statistically significant keywords and examine emotional engagement. We reveal how specific keywords and communicative strategies used in the persuasive discourse of the insurance products reflect Thai and Japanese socio-cultural preferences and values. We found that while Thai tvcs demonstrate a higher audience engagement through the use of metadiscourse markers such as engagement markers and emphatics under the theme of moral and family values, Japanese tvcs highlight information-dense content-words, including the extensive use of statistics involving themes of security, health and value propositions.
{"title":"Emotional engagement in Thai and Japanese insurance advertising: corpus-based keyword analysis","authors":"Chavalin Svetanant, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Attapol T. Rutherford","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0235","url":null,"abstract":"Advertisements demonstrate patterns of communication that are imagined to be acceptable to the communities at which they are aimed, serving as cultural artefacts that provide insights into shared cultural interpretations and social interactions. Drawing on techniques from corpus linguistics, text linguistics and the Appraisal framework, we conducted an analysis of salient keywords in a collection of Thai and Japanese tv commercials (tvcs) for insurance products in order to identify statistically significant keywords and examine emotional engagement. We reveal how specific keywords and communicative strategies used in the persuasive discourse of the insurance products reflect Thai and Japanese socio-cultural preferences and values. We found that while Thai tvcs demonstrate a higher audience engagement through the use of metadiscourse markers such as engagement markers and emphatics under the theme of moral and family values, Japanese tvcs highlight information-dense content-words, including the extensive use of statistics involving themes of security, health and value propositions.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48756969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, we reflect on the process of re-operationalising transcript data generated in an ethnographic study for the purposes of corpus analysis. We present a corpus of patient–provider interactions in the context of Emergency Departments in hospitals in Australia, to discuss the process through which ethnographic transcripts were manipulated to generate a searchable corpus. We refer to the types of corpus analysis that this conversion enables, facilitated by the rich metadata collected alongside the transcribed audio recordings, augmenting the findings of prior qualitative analyses. Subsequently, we offer guidance for spoken data transcription, intended to ‘future proof’ such data for subsequent reformatting for corpus linguistic analysis.
{"title":"Making use of transcription data from qualitative research within a corpus-linguistic paradigm: issues, experiences and recommendations","authors":"Luke C. Collins, A. Hardie","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0237","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we reflect on the process of re-operationalising transcript data generated in an ethnographic study for the purposes of corpus analysis. We present a corpus of patient–provider interactions in the context of Emergency Departments in hospitals in Australia, to discuss the process through which ethnographic transcripts were manipulated to generate a searchable corpus. We refer to the types of corpus analysis that this conversion enables, facilitated by the rich metadata collected alongside the transcribed audio recordings, augmenting the findings of prior qualitative analyses. Subsequently, we offer guidance for spoken data transcription, intended to ‘future proof’ such data for subsequent reformatting for corpus linguistic analysis.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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