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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Corpus linguistic"”.
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Dealing with spelling variation in Early Modern English texts
… English period, the opportunities for historial corpus linguistic research have never been greater. However, it has been observed in prior research, and quantified on a large-scale for the first time in this thesis, that texts from this period contain significant amounts of spelling variation …
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Literary Dialect In Flannery O'Connor's "The Lame Shall Enter First" And "Good Country People"
… read and loved short stories. By employing sociolinguistic, quantitative, qualitative, and corpus linguistic methods along with R Studio to gather data about literary dialect utilized in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories “Good Country People” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”, I argue that not …
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Animal names and categorisation in the Hebrew Bible : a textual and cognitive approach
… animal names in the Hebrew Bible. Centring on a corpus-linguistic analysis of every word for an animal or type of animal used within the text, it sheds light on the methods and paradigms of categorisation used by the ancient Hebrews and thus on previously unknown aspects of their worldview. The …
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Language in the U.S. and the Law: A Corpus Analysis of the Language of Language Policy
… language policies. In order to do this, I use corpus linguistic techniques to study the ways that the terms English and other languages collocate with other words in the way that the policies themselves are written. I further this analysis with a reading of the policies that looks for themes …
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Representation of China's Image on The Globe and Mail: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis from the Perspective of van Dijk’s Ideology Square
… and Mail and is conducted with the support of corpus linguistic methodology and with the guideline of Critical Discourse Analysis, especially van Dijk’s ideology square. In order to discern and identify the image of China as portrayed by the Globe and Mail, the underlying discourse strategies …
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A corpus-driven study of features of Chinese students' undergraduate writing in UK universities
… 2000 and 2008; these are investigated using corpus linguistic procedures, supported by qualitative reading. A particular focus is the use of lexical chunks, or recurring strings of words. Findings from the literature on Chinese students’ written English indicate high use of informal chunks, …
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Exploring Non-binary Genders: Language and Identity
… the analysis. Additionally, a 2.9 million-word corpus of non-binary language was analysed using corpus linguistic tools. This thesis theorised gender as something one becomes rather than something one is (Linstead and Pullen, 2006), a relational process through affective intensities which move …
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… in Augsburg called the German Medical Incunabula Corpus (GeMedIC). The study first introduces key prior research and the socio-historical background information necessary in preparation for various linguistic studies. It then explains the process of GeMedIC’s digital creation and the requirements …
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A corpus-assisted study of the discourses of infertility in UK blogs, news articles and clinic websites
… as yet there is almost no research into the linguistic or discursive representations of infertility, an absence addressed by this thesis, in the research question what are the discourses of infertility? The combination of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis (CADS) has been fruitfully …
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The emergent patterns of Italian idioms : a dynamic-systems approach
In traditional generative linguistic theories, idiomatic constructions are seen as a sort of “anomaly”, and dismissed as non-decomposable items of non-literal language, uninteresting and “peripheral”. Contrary to this view, in the last decades psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic studies have …
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The Differential Effects of Explicit and Implicit Instruction: Focusing on the L2 Acquisition of Epistemic Stance by Japanese EFL Learners.
… data was analyzed using a combination of corpus linguistic techniques and manual analysis, which included the calculation of epistemic token and type scores to measure the frequency and variety of epistemic stance use, respectively. As regards immediate instructional effects, explicit …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
… present study uses an innovative combination of corpus-linguistic methods and manual analyses to identify syntactic priming of verb-particle constructions (e.g., taking out a paper vs. taking a paper out), the dative construction (e.g., giving Emma a paper vs. giving a paper to Emma) and the …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
… Wittgenstein and the writer Gertrude Stein in a linguistic, biographical and poetic sense. The main claim is that Wittgenstein and Stein share the understanding of language as a game, which is a fruitful principle for artistic and poetic production. Gertrude Stein developed a dimension in her …
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Corpus linguistics for History : the methodology of investigating place-name discourses in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers
… the potential of approaches from the field of corpus linguistics to be useful to historical research. Specifically, two sets of methodological issues are considered that arise when corpus linguistic methods are used on digitised historical sources. The first set of issues surrounds optical …
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WORDS AS DEEDS: GENDER AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE IN BRITISH SUFFRAGE PERIODICALS (1907-14)
… feminist and media history. My attempt will be a linguistic analysis of Suffragette periodicals: the main aim is to study the language strategies used for their propagandistic goals, how they significantly challenged the representation of suffrage activists in mainstream press and their relevance …
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Populism in times of crisis an analysis of online populist discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict [Il populismo in tempi di crisi. Un'analisi del discorso populista online durante la pandemia di COVID-19 e il conflitto Russia-Ucraina]
… Lo studio adotta un approccio che integra la linguistica dei corpora e l’analisi critica del discorso multimodale al fine di garantire una visione più approfondita del fenomeno. Alla luce di queste premesse e scelte metodologiche, l’analisi mira a individuare le principali differenze nel …