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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"corpus linguistics"”.
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Merging corpus linguistics and collaborative knowledge construction
This study relates corpus-driven discourse analysis to the concept of collaborative knowledge construction. It demonstrates that the traditional synchronic perspective of meaning in corpus linguistics needs to be complemented by a diachronic dimension. The fundamental assumption underlying this …
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A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging
This thesis reports a study using a corpus of text messages in English (CorTxt) to explore linguistic features which define texting as a language variety. It focuses on how the language of texting, Txt, is shaped by texters actively fulfilling interpersonal goals. The thesis starts with an overview …
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Content-Based Instruction and Corpus Linguistics Curriculum for Early Advanced EFL Saudi Students
… that incorporates content-based instruction and corpus linguistics. The curriculum is divided into six units. The units focus on the five basic language skills: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking. Each unit focuses on different content and includes examples form several corpus sites. This …
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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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Ideological Collocation in Meta-Wahhabi Discourse Post-911 : A Symbiosis of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.
… Drawing on a methodological synergy of corpus linguistics and CDA (Baker et al. 2008; Salama 2011), I propose a linguistic model for explicating the ideological nature of collocation between two clashing books: Stephen Schwartz's (2002) The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from …
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Does Confucius’ 孝 (xiao) travel across time and languages
… ancient Confucian texts, the Chinese Internet Corpus and the Bank of English, the meaning of 孝 as a social phenomenon in different time and languages is extracted. This dissertation also focuses on the translation study of 孝. From the perspective of corpus linguistics, through different …
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Corpus-Based pedagogy and English language teaching: Insights from the classroom
… sessions which highlighted principles of corpus linguistics, a group of three EFL teachers at the University of Central Lancashire were provided with knowledge of corpus linguistics principles with which they planned and delivered a series of corpus-based lessons to their groups of …
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A corpus-driven discourse analysis of transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme ‘Aló Presidente’
… a methodology that combines techniques from corpus linguistics with theory from the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The methodology is demonstrated using a corpus comprising transcripts of Hugo Chávez’s television programme, Aló Presidente, broadcast …
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A corpus based study of representation of foreign countries in the South Korean Press
… particularly North Korea and the United States. Corpus investigation techniques are used with a corpus comprising articles from the on-line English versions of three Korean newspapers: the Korea Herald, the Korea Times, and the Chosun Ilbo. The corpus is half a million words and Wordsmith Tools …
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Fulfilling the law apart from the law: A discourse approach to Paul and the law in Romans
… of understanding language--systemic-functional linguistics (SFL)--that forms the foundation of this study and the central pillar for the application of that theory--corpus linguistics using the annotation database of Opentext.org project. Chapter 3 develops a number of tools on the basis of SFL …
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Conceptos relacionados con estrella. Lingüística de corpus de astronomía
… and Environment Studies) and techniques based on corpus linguistics for detecting specific vocabularies, frequent vocabularies and collocations. The methodology has been tested applying it to a particular text of more of 1000 words: a text of Astronomy made by the Hubble European Space Agency …
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Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer : a machine-learning tool for classifying and analyzing discourse
… relations (Gramsci, 1999). On the other hand, corpus linguistics deals with principles and practice of understanding the language produced within large amounts of textual data (Oostdijk, 1991). In my thesis, I have aimed to combine, using machine learning, the CDA approach with corpus …
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Political Discourse and Digital Communication: A Critical Discourse Analysis of far-right Populism in Italy and in The United States
… che include la Critical Discourse Analysis e la Corpus Linguistics. Nello specifico, questo lavoro si focalizza sui tweets ed i discorsi tradizionali di Donald J. Trump e Matteo Salvini durante gli ultimi tre mesi di campagna elettorale ed i primi sette mesi di governo (inclusi i periodi di …
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A NOVEL THEORY OF SUPPORT IN SOCIAL MEDIA DISCOURSE (WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LINGUISTICS ANALYSIS)
… methods and novel theory to find its place in corpus linguistics—subtle linguistic analysis guides the exploratory research. An investigation of sophisticated patterns of support alludes to an architecture for social media discourse. The primary patterns can include device-enabled discourse …
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The psychological validity of collocation : evidence from event-related brain potentials
… to investigate the psychological validity of corpus-derived collocations (e.g. Conklin & Schmitt 2008; McDonald & Shillcock 2003a; 2003b; Underwood et al. 2004; Huang et al. 2012). The results of these studies reveal that sequences of words which form collocations are read more quickly and …
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A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Communities in Applied Linguistics in Turkiye and the United States
… identity through stance markers in applied linguistics theses from the United States and Turkiye, adopting a corpus-driven approach. Drawing on 200 theses (100 from each discourse community), the research reveals how the linguistic features reflect the diverse academic conventions of …
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THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENSHIP IN SINGAPORE
… methods from linguistic ethnography, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis, this study analyzes a dataset comprising public media texts and interview narratives and observational data from 18 new citizens. This study analyzes how various signs, such as linguistic patterns, …
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Models of Claim, Resistance, and Activism in the Novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, and Frances Burney
Using corpus linguistics and feminist approaches, this thesis examines the usage and construction of the term “claim” in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney, and Francis Burney’s The Wanderer. By tracking the frequency of “claim” and its collocates …
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Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa
… methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics analysis, this dissertation seeks to explore how our understanding of democracy is being transformed as we move from a physical, industrialised world into a digital, networked society. South Africa is trying to keep pace with …
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Le Web comme corpus et les expressions « figées » en français
… objective is to apply the idea of the “Web as corpus” to a concrete example – in this case, the study of lexical variation in French idiomatic expressions. The first part of this paper examines the idea of using the World Wide Web as an exploitable corpus for linguistic research and provides an …
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