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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"corpus analysis"”.
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Voicing imperial subjects in British literature : a corpus analysis of literary dialect, 1768-1929
… to track such patterns of representation, a corpus was constructed from the dialogue of 126 novels, plays, and short stories. That dialogue was then annotated for more than 200 lexical, morphological, orthographic, and phonological features. That data enable statistical analyses that model …
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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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Writing under the gun : a multimodal analysis of technical trouble tickets as an itext genre
… methodology, rhetorical genre analysis, and corpus analysis, this study examines trouble ticket discourse as a genre of digital communication (IText), interpreting the findings through the lens of 18 months the author spent working in the environment.Trouble tickets are the …
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Learner Modelling for Individualised Reading in a Second Language
… of the FERN system was evaluated through corpus analysis, machine translation analysis and a year-long study with second year university Spanish class. The machine translation analysis combined with the classroom study demonstrated that the word and phrase error rate generated in FERN is …
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Vyjádření negativní průvodní okolnosti v češtině a francouzštině
… in Czech. The basis of the practical part is the analysis of the French-Czech and Czech-French parallel corpus InterCorp v14. The aim of the analysis is to determine the equivalents of the French construction sans + infinitive in Czech, focusing on their morphosyntactic characteristics and the …
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Singing in Chaozhou: The Relationship between Tones and Songs
… The study employs multiple approaches, including corpus analysis, field research, an observational study, and a production experiment. The corpus analysis measured the correspondence between tones and melodies in Chaozhou songs. A high degree of tone-melody matching was found: 89% in folk songs …
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Social identity in Shakespeare's plays : a quantitative study
… (Mowat, Werstine, Niles and Poston 2014) and corpus analysis software including AntConc (Anthony 2014) and Ubiqu+ity can be applied to a closed-set collection of plays understood to be written by Shakespeare (Wells and Taylor 1987, 109-134) to test claims laid out by literary critics. This …
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What is a girl worth: the role of discourse in the perpetuation and obfuscation of institutional abuse in USA gymnastics
… was conducted through a Critical Discourse Analysis of competition commentary, interviews with coaches and gymnasts, and documentaries covering the sport. The CDA was informed by a computer-assisted corpus analysis of the data collected. It was found that various discourses surrounding …
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Visible hands : inferring translation strategy : an analysis of a corpus of translations produced at Canadian National (CN)
… for inferring translation strategy from a corpus of translations, with an emphasis on observing and documenting, rather than on evaluating translation quality. It argues that the translator is a perfectly visible component in the translation process, having a definite impact on the …
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Koronavirová krize v tisku KR a KLDR: korpusová analýza lexika
… Republic of Korea press. The subject of the analysis are chosen articles published in the South Korean daily newspaper The Chosun Ilbo and the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun in 2020, which map the beginning of the coronavirus crisis and its development in the press of both countries. I …
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Stance and engagement in postgraduate writing: a comparative study of English NS and Arab EFL student writers in Linguistics and Literature
… knowledge. The primary data used consisted of a corpus of 39 master’s dissertations and discourse-based semi-structured interviews with 15 of the writers. While a corpus analysis helped to reveal which features were overused and which ones were underused, interviews were conducted to discover …
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The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'
… shifts of coherence. Various models of shifts analysis (Vinay and Darbelnet 2000, Popovic 1970, Van Leuven-Zwart 1984, Toury 1980 and 1995, Frank1987) are assessed to determine the analytical tools of our study. Modulation (Vinay andDarbelnet 2000) is taken as a kind of shift which well …
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Sentence initial bundles in L2 thesis writing: A comparative study of Chinese L2 and New Zealand L1 postgraduates’ writing
… collections were built: a Chinese masters thesis corpus, a New Zealand masters thesis corpus, a Chinese PhD thesis corpus and a New Zealand PhD thesis corpus. In comparing these four corpora, this study provided a detailed picture of the use of sentence initial bundles in Chinese postgraduate …
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Student attitudes toward blended and online courses: a comparison of students in traditional classroom writing environments and students in blended writing environments
… and the qualitative data were subjected to corpus analysis and specific interpretation. Overall, the attitudes expressed by the students in this research suggest that there are some major differences between student groups in terms of their general attitudes to blended and online learning. …
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Understanding the formation of American mental health policy preferences, 1952-1981
… through five research questions answered through corpus analysis and time series statistics: How do shifts in (1) the sentiments of the American public; (2) the opinions of psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts; (3) formal and informal lobbying efforts by pharmacological …
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The acquisition of adjunct control: grammar and processing
… the linguistic input. I discuss the results of a corpus analysis, including the possibility that adjunct control could be learned from the input. The kinds of information that could be useful to a learner become much more limited, however, after considering the processing limitations that would …
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The discursive construction and attributions of motive in relation to the Chilean student movement (2011-2013) in the national news genre
… the actions associated with them. The corpus under study consists of a specialized corpus containing news articles about the student movement, drawn from seven major newspapers over a three-year span (2011-2013), sub-categorized into conservative and alternative press. The analysis …
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The Genitive Ratio and its Applications
… influenced by the possessor's animacy. A corpus analysis that counts each genitive construction in three conditions (definite, indefinite and no article) confirms that occurrences of possessive-s decline as the animacy hierarchy progresses from animate through concrete to abstract. A …
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A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CAUSALITY IN HATE SPEECH
… research questions (1) and (2), I conducted a corpus analysis of select causal constructions and strategies of indirect speech using annotated English hate speech datasets to see what syntactic choices were made in hate speech when referencing minority (targeted) groups and majority groups. I …
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“Who Breaked the Rule?”: Rethinking English Past Tense Overregularizations
… a behavioral study with 16-month-olds and a corpus analysis of longitudinal, spontaneous child speech to achieve two goals: the first is to seek evidence that the past tense rule can be found in 16-month-olds, which would be consistent with many observations that children display significant …
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