CorporaPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0259
W. Crawford
{"title":"Review: Le Bruyn and Paquot (eds). 2021. Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition","authors":"W. Crawford","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49557698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0253
María José Marín Pérez, Á. Almela
{"title":"The representation of migrants in Spanish judicial decisions: using corpus data to refute hate speech","authors":"María José Marín Pérez, Á. Almela","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0253","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of immigration and its depiction in media texts have been examined profusely within the field of corpus-based discourse analysis ( Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008 ; Baker et al., 2013 ; and Blinder and Allen, 2016 ). This research seeks to present it as reflected in a corpus of 600 judicial decisions issued by Spanish courts in the years 2016 and 2017. This analysis was motivated by the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe in recent years. Such parties dehumanise immigrants and portray them as a threat to the welfare state. On first examination, the results appear to dissociate immigration and crime since a considerable percentage of the keywords obtained (about 20 percent) revolves around three major topoi (namely, ‘family’, ‘territory/access’ and ‘legal punishment’) and there is no evidence of any major offences or crimes amongst the top-ranking lexicon. The study of the collocate networks of the keywords within the category ‘legal punishment’ confirms our initial perception; in fact, out of twenty-one collocates, only the word delito (‘crime’) itself collocates with terms referring to typified crimes such as violencia (‘violence’). In parallel, the data were triangulated using the text-classification software UMUTextStats ( García-Díaz et al., 2018 ). The results of this second analysis also confirm our initial observations.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42757298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0254
S. Ali, P. Thompson
{"title":"Reporting local cultures in the globalised world: how indigenised can English be in the free world?","authors":"S. Ali, P. Thompson","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0254","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of English newspaper reportage in two South Asian countries, Pakistan (where English was introduced through colonisation) and Afghanistan (which has not been colonised), and their comparison with British newspaper reportage. The objective of this study is to analyse linguistic variation between the cultural press reportage (cpr) of the selected countries and to see which variety of English, Pakistani or Afghan, resembles British English the most. To achieve this objective, three English newspapers from each country were selected for the compilation of a specialised corpus which was analysed with reference to the five textual dimensions introduced by Biber (1988 , 2006 ). This research is significant as no previous study has attempted to find the differences and similarities between the Englishes used in a formerly colonised country and a country that was never part of the British Empire. The comparison indicates that Pakistani cpr is close to British cpr, while Afghan cpr is different. In terms of Biber’s five textual dimensions, Afghan cpr is more informational, narrative, explicit and abstract, and less non-argumentative in comparison with British and Pakistani cpr.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49301474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0258
Mariana Centanin Bertho
{"title":"Review: Jonsson and Larsson (eds). 2020. Voices Past and Present – Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts: In Honor of Merja Kytö","authors":"Mariana Centanin Bertho","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44083644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-08-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0257
A. Krendel, M. McGlashan, Veronika Koller
{"title":"The representation of gendered social actors across five manosphere communities on Reddit","authors":"A. Krendel, M. McGlashan, Veronika Koller","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0257","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the representation of gendered social actors in a specialised corpus of 10.9 million words, collected from five Reddit communities associated with the so-called ‘manosphere’: incels (involuntary celibates), Men Going Their Own Way (male separatists), pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, and a group dedicated to wider discussions of ‘red pill’ philosophy. Thirty-four gendered social actor terms were identified as key-key-words across the manosphere corpora. Both male and female social actors are referenced using relational terms, while the latter are also referenced using derogatory terms and the former are referenced using terms for kinship and in-group identification. We then analysed the consistent collocates ( Baker et al., 2008 ) of the four most frequent gendered social actor terms ( women, girls, men and guys), to establish the topics, descriptions and actions associated with the social actors across the five groups. Gendered social actors were constructed in essentialist dichotomies, with women and girls, although objectified and passivated in dating/sexual contexts, being represented as violent towards male social actors and as holding a privileged position over men in wider society. The anti-feminist ideology reflected in manosphere discourse can be seen as a more extreme version of mainstream discourse. To the extent that manosphere discourse spreads beyond dedicated forums and websites, its views will be re-imported into the mainstream, leading to a wider radicalisation.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41748683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0236
Stefano Rastelli, Akira Murakami
{"title":"Apparently identical verbs can be represented differently: comparing L1–L2 inflection with contingency-based measure ΔP","authors":"Stefano Rastelli, Akira Murakami","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0236","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method that models unidirectional, contingency-based association scale ΔP in order to analyse the different degrees of morpheme productivity in apparently identical L1–L2 inflected pairs. The method has the potential to uncover differences in how in L1–L2 inflected items are represented by L2 learners and native speakers. Such differences are at risk of remaining invisible if one considers only frequency, distribution and rank of predicates.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45522688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0235
Chavalin Svetanant, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Attapol T. Rutherford
{"title":"Emotional engagement in Thai and Japanese insurance advertising: corpus-based keyword analysis","authors":"Chavalin Svetanant, Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Attapol T. Rutherford","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0235","url":null,"abstract":"Advertisements demonstrate patterns of communication that are imagined to be acceptable to the communities at which they are aimed, serving as cultural artefacts that provide insights into shared cultural interpretations and social interactions. Drawing on techniques from corpus linguistics, text linguistics and the Appraisal framework, we conducted an analysis of salient keywords in a collection of Thai and Japanese tv commercials (tvcs) for insurance products in order to identify statistically significant keywords and examine emotional engagement. We reveal how specific keywords and communicative strategies used in the persuasive discourse of the insurance products reflect Thai and Japanese socio-cultural preferences and values. We found that while Thai tvcs demonstrate a higher audience engagement through the use of metadiscourse markers such as engagement markers and emphatics under the theme of moral and family values, Japanese tvcs highlight information-dense content-words, including the extensive use of statistics involving themes of security, health and value propositions.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48756969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CorporaPub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.3366/cor.2022.0237
Luke C. Collins, A. Hardie
{"title":"Making use of transcription data from qualitative research within a corpus-linguistic paradigm: issues, experiences and recommendations","authors":"Luke C. Collins, A. Hardie","doi":"10.3366/cor.2022.0237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/cor.2022.0237","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we reflect on the process of re-operationalising transcript data generated in an ethnographic study for the purposes of corpus analysis. We present a corpus of patient–provider interactions in the context of Emergency Departments in hospitals in Australia, to discuss the process through which ethnographic transcripts were manipulated to generate a searchable corpus. We refer to the types of corpus analysis that this conversion enables, facilitated by the rich metadata collected alongside the transcribed audio recordings, augmenting the findings of prior qualitative analyses. Subsequently, we offer guidance for spoken data transcription, intended to ‘future proof’ such data for subsequent reformatting for corpus linguistic analysis.","PeriodicalId":44933,"journal":{"name":"Corpora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}