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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"corpus-driven"”.
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A corpus-driven study on translation units in an English-Chinese parallel corpus
… I will use the Hong Kong Legal Document Parallel Corpus (HKLDC). This dissertation starts with the definition of the concept of the translation unit and its equivalent and goes on to describe a method of extracting translation unit candidates. These candidates are then validated by further …
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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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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-Driven Study of Discourse Communities in Applied Linguistics in Turkiye and the United States
… 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 different district discourse communities. The findings highlight how …
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A corpus-driven error analysis of the oral and written production of Leaving Certificate Spanish learners
… level education – this presents a massive, raw corpus of data with the potential to yield invaluable insight into the phenomena of learner interlanguage. With samples of official LC Spanish examination data, this project has compiled a digitised corpus of learner Spanish comprised of the written …
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The language of the sea: a corpus driven examination of the influence of Britain's maritime tradition on standard English
… (Moon 1998). Using the Cobuild Bank of English Corpus, the MEs were analysed to reveal patterns about who uses them, why and where. The findings reveal distinctive differences of usage in the major English speaking counties of Britain, America, Canada and Australia, providing revealing insights …
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DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN KOREAN AND ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN AND IN KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… their monolingual peers in two languages. The corpus-driven analysis proposes a core meaning of the two DMs as signaling contextual divergence in two monolingual groups. Both similarities and differences coexist in the bilingual data. While the core meaning of well was contextual divergence, …
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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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Epistemic Mobilities of Climate Migration: a French Case Study
… and cited by these stakeholders and conduct a corpus-driven analysis of news media coverage about climate migration. In the analysis, I triangulate these three sources of information and bring them in conversation with the academic literature. I describe an unstable and fragmented stakeholder …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
… language learners. To address this need, this corpus-driven study investigated the vocabulary demands of popular English songs. A comprehensive corpus of popular English song lyrics was created for this study. Songs for the corpus were selected according to their impact and influence on …
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Immediate and extended intersubjectivity : synchronic and diachronic interplay among evidentiality, factuality and other domains
… from a number of qualitative and quantitative corpus surveys on the immediate and extended intersubjectification of some constructions and in particular the presuppositional chunk [you don’t want X] in British and American English (cf. chapter 4). According to this framework, it is now possible …