Corpus Approaches to Analysing Uncertainty and Ignorance in Academic Discourse

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Marcus Müller
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The article provides an overview of corpus approaches to researching linguistic practices for dealing with ignorance and uncertainty. Uncertainty and ignorance are first and foremost epistemological or socio-psychological categories rather than linguistic ones. But they can be applied to a corpus linguistic setting. Based on a presentation of the central terms and their relevance for digital corpus research, this paper exemplifies proposals for operationalisations using a corpus of political science texts from the field of International Relations (DIReC). It gives an overview of various methods of researching ignorance and uncertainty in academic discourse, focusing on lexicon-based, annotation-based and pattern-search-based approaches as well as combinations thereof. The structure of the explanations reflects a central conflict of aims: On the one hand, corpus-based research on ignorance and uncertainty requires a precise, interpretive approach to the contextual meaning and epistemic function of each individual piece of evidence. On the other hand, it seems advantageous to investigate the largest possible corpora for reasons of reliability. The final section presents an application sketch that addresses and exemplifies several methodological problems. It compares uncertainty markers in political science discourse as found in the DIReC corpus with those in conspiracy theories, drawing on the LOCO corpus and journalistic discourse represented in a reference corpus of US newspapers.
语料库方法分析学术话语中的不确定性和无知
本文概述了语料库方法在研究处理无知和不确定性的语言实践中的应用。不确定性和无知首先是认识论或社会心理学范畴,而不是语言学范畴。但它们可以应用于语料库语言设置。基于对中心术语及其与数字语料库研究的相关性的介绍,本文举例说明了使用国际关系领域(DIReC)政治学文本语料库的操作化建议。概述了研究学术话语中无知和不确定性的各种方法,重点介绍了基于词典的、基于注释的和基于模式搜索的方法及其组合。这些解释的结构反映了目标的中心冲突:一方面,基于语料库的无知和不确定性研究需要对每个证据的语境意义和认知功能采取精确的解释方法。另一方面,由于可靠性的原因,调查尽可能大的语料库似乎是有利的。最后一节给出了一个应用程序概要,说明并举例说明了几个方法论问题。它比较了在DIReC语料库中发现的政治学话语中的不确定性标记与阴谋论中的不确定性标记,利用LOCO语料库和美国报纸参考语料库中代表的新闻话语。
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