Towards a cognitive forensic stylistics: An intercoder reliability test for replicable feature finding in the Operation Heron corpus

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Matthew Voice, Chloe Harrison, Tim Grant, Marcello Giovanelli
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This paper reports an initial application of contemporary cognitive stylistics to forensic linguistic contexts. In both areas, a need has been identified for robust analyses. An intercoder reliability study was developed using data from a historic authorship analysis case involving single-authored hate mail. Exploring the applicability of Cognitive Grammar’s notion of construal as a reliable framework for describing salient features of the author’s style, this test examined the accuracy and consistency of descriptions of schematicity and specificity within the corpus, as applied by independent coders. Iterative coding and testing demonstrated that reliability was achievable, but depended upon a protocol developed through considerable definitional work, refining the concepts of specificity and elaboration as taken from Cognitive Grammar. Our findings support the idea that the identification of stylistic features can be rigorous, retrievable, and replicable, but also that a fuller system of coding will require a substantial research programme. Such an approach, bringing together contemporary stylistics and forensic authorship analysis, would be a productive collaboration between both disciplines and a valuable research method for verifiability in stylistics more generally. Content: Readers are advised that the letters analysed for this study contain offensive language, and that short quotes within this paper include racist and hateful language directed at particular groups.
走向认知法医文体学:在苍鹭行动语料库中可复制特征发现的互编码可靠性测试
本文报道了当代认知文体学在司法语言语境中的初步应用。在这两个领域,都需要进行可靠的分析。一项互编码可靠性研究是利用一个历史作者身份分析案例的数据开发的,该案例涉及单一作者的仇恨邮件。探索认知语法的解释概念作为描述作者风格显著特征的可靠框架的适用性,该测试检查了独立编码员在语料库中对图式性和特异性描述的准确性和一致性。迭代编码和测试证明了可靠性是可以实现的,但是依赖于通过大量定义工作开发的协议,细化了从认知语法中提取的特异性和精化的概念。我们的研究结果支持了这样一种观点,即风格特征的识别可以是严格的、可检索的和可复制的,但更完整的编码系统将需要大量的研究计划。这种方法将当代文体学和法医作者分析结合起来,将是两个学科之间富有成效的合作,也是文体学更普遍的可验证性的有价值的研究方法。内容:请读者注意,本研究分析的信件包含攻击性语言,本文中的简短引用包含针对特定群体的种族主义和仇恨语言。
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期刊介绍: Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.
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