Developing an annotation protocol for evaluative stance and metaphor in discourse: theoretical and methodological considerations

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI:10.1515/text-2021-0096
Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Paula Pérez-Sobrino
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Abstract

Abstract The process of identification and annotation of evaluation has received a lot of attention in recent years. However, given the complexity of the topic, the discussion of some of the central issues is still ongoing. The present article contributes to this debate by presenting an annotation scheme that is designed for the identification and annotation of evaluative stance in a corpus of four English genres, namely, newspaper discourse, political discourse, newspaper scientific popularization and fora. A 4,862-word corpus was sampled from a larger 400,000-word corpus compiled within the research project STANCEDISC on the study of stance in discourse varieties. The scheme posits a series of ad hoc categories designed to optimise the transparency, reliability and replicability of the identification, annotation and analysis of evaluative stance. The categories are as follows: parts of speech (Noun Phrase, NP; Adjectival Phrase, AP; Adverbial Phrase, ADVP; Verbal Phrase, VP), function (classifying, predicational and attitude), metaphoricity (metaphoric and non-metaphoric), and value (positive and negative). The aim of this paper is to explain the scheme together with the theoretical justification of the categories and the methodological procedure adopted, and to illustrate the implementation of the scheme by discussing examples taken from different genres.
发展话语评价立场和隐喻的注释协议:理论和方法上的考虑
摘要评价的识别和注释过程近年来受到了广泛的关注。然而,鉴于该专题的复杂性,对一些核心问题的讨论仍在进行中。本文提出了一个注释方案,用于识别和注释四种英语体裁的语料库中的评价立场,即报纸语篇、政治语篇、报纸科普和论坛。4862个单词的语料库是从STANCEDISC研究项目中汇编的400000个单词的大型语料库中抽取的,该研究项目旨在研究话语变体中的立场。该方案提出了一系列特设类别,旨在优化评估立场的识别、注释和分析的透明度、可靠性和可复制性。类别如下:词性(名词短语,NP;形容短语,AP;副词短语,ADVP;动词短语,VP)、功能(分类、表语和态度)、隐喻性(隐喻和非隐喻)和价值(积极和消极)。本文的目的是解释该方案,以及所采用的类别和方法论程序的理论依据,并通过讨论不同流派的例子来说明该方案的实施。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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