Applied Corpus Linguistics最新文献

{"title":"Review of Wallis (2021) statistics in corpus linguistics research: A new approach","authors":"Zhen Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review critiques Sean Wallis's <span><em>Statistics in </em><em>Corpus Linguistics</em><em> Research: A New Approach</em></span>. Wallis introduces research design and statistical methods in corpus linguistics, proposing the choice-based approach which underlines the application of the Wilson interval. This article will review the main contents of this book and evaluate the proposed new approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41475043","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}

{"title":"The role of modals in policies: The US opioid crisis as a case study","authors":"Peter Joseph Torres","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study uses corpus-assisted discourse analysis to examine the role of modality in policy verb phrases, using California opioid policies as a case study. By tracking the behavior of permissive and restrictive modals across time, this study highlights two potential discourse functions of modals in policy drafting: (i) to reflect the gravity of the issues on the ground, and (ii) to express permission and restriction by highlighting and deemphasizing a policy's suggestive intent, respectively. This study shows that the increased use of restrictive modality has significant positive correlations with California's worsening opioid crisis and its rising fatalities. A closer examination of state policy amendments reveals that altering policy modals has the potential to either broaden or limit the terms of existing policies. Informed by Van Dijk's “context models,” this study provides a cogent applied corpus linguistics framework for analyzing policy text and offers both political and linguistic perspectives into our understanding of modals and how communities address epidemics, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44734969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patient feedback and duration of treatment: A corpus-based analysis of written comments on cancer care in England","authors":"Gavin Brookes,&nbsp;Paul Baker","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the relationship between the length of time since a patient received their first treatment for cancer and the feedback they give on that treatment. The analysis is based on a corpus of 214,340 written patient comments (14,403,694 words) relating to National Health Service (NHS) cancer care in England between 2015 and 2018. Patients are grouped according to treatment duration and compared in terms of the feedback ratings they gave, the themes of their positive and negative comments, and the keywords that characterise the language they use to provide qualitative evaluations of their experiences. We find that patient satisfaction rates remain relatively stable across the treatment duration groups, with patients generally indicating high levels of satisfaction. Patients focus on a small number of core themes in their feedback, regardless of treatment duration, though there are differences in the extent to which certain themes are focused on by each group. Our analysis of keywords reveals differences in the focus of the comments, as well as in the types of rhetorical strategies that patients (particularly those receiving treatment for longer periods) use, not only to frame but also to legitimise their feedback. The implications of the findings are discussed with respect to healthcare provision and feedback monitoring. We also discuss the value of combining a focus on content with form when working with non-linguist stakeholders, and reflect on the opportunities and challenges of convincing stakeholders of the value of using (corpus) linguistic methods to approach seemingly non-linguistic questions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799121000101/pdfft?md5=cc40a6380d9d0212274df77fedd11eab&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799121000101-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48866505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating a corpus of sensitive and hard-to-access texts: Methodological challenges and ethical concerns in the building of the WiSP Corpus","authors":"Maria Leedham,&nbsp;Theresa Lillis,&nbsp;Alison Twiner","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Corpus linguistics is increasingly employed to explore large, publicly-available datasets such as newspaper texts, government speeches and online fora. However, comparatively few corpora exist where the subject matter concerns sensitive topics about living individuals since, due to their highly personal and confidential nature, these texts are hard to access and raise difficult ethical questions around secondary data analysis. One exception is the Writing in professional social work practice (WiSP) corpus, comprising texts written by UK-based professional social workers in the course of their daily work and now available to other researchers through the ReShare archive. This paper focuses on the challenges involved in building the WiSP corpus and the epistemological and ethical issues raised. Two key aspects of research practice are discussed: data anonymisation and dataset archiving. Specifically, the paper explores decision-making around anonymisation and an ethically-informed rationale for treating some texts as ‘not for sharing’, leading to the decision to create two corpora: one for the research team and a further anonymised and slightly reduced version for archiving. The paper explores what the WiSP corpora (Corpus 1 and Corpus 2) contribute to understandings about social work writing, the extent to which the two corpora enable different analyses and whether the existence of two corpora is problematic from a corpus linguistic perspective. The paper concludes by considering how the ethical decisions around corpus creation of sensitive texts raise questions about key principles in corpus linguistics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666799121000113/pdfft?md5=114da62f552bc3d2ef6ffdd86419da6d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666799121000113-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49314878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Citation practices of L2 writers in first-year writing courses: Form, rhetorical function, and connection with pedagogical materials","authors":"Jie Gao ,&nbsp;Adriana Picoral ,&nbsp;Shelley Staples ,&nbsp;Lindsey Macdonald","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Citation practices are an important part of academic writing, and undergraduate writers often struggle to effectively integrate citation forms and functions into their writing. While many studies have focused on citation use by English as a first language (L1) student writers, English as a second language (L2) writers at advanced levels, and published writers, less is known about how undergraduate L2 writers use citations across assignments in First-Year Writing contexts, particularly in relation to the pedagogical materials provided by classroom teachers. Using a corpus of 74 papers, this study sheds light on how L2 writers’ citations vary in form and rhetorical function across two assignments (Literature Review and Research Paper) and two instructors. We also examine how students’ citation practices are influenced by the pedagogical materials provided for each assignment (<em>N</em> = 22). After manually coding student writers’ citation practices and instructors’ pedagogical materials, findings show that both assignment type and instructor play a role in L2 writers’ citation choices. Generally, writers in our study use integral citations (e.g., “Author (YEAR) argues that …”) more frequently in the Literature Review assignment. Non=integral citations, characterized by researchers’ names at the end of a sentence, are found in the Research Paper assignment at a higher frequency. Students also make use of hybrid citations, not previously discussed in the literature, but which are a combination of integral and non-integral citations. In terms of rhetorical function, attribution only (the baseline function of a citation, indicating an attribution to an external source) is most frequently used across assignments, and other functions were found much less frequently. These findings are discussed in light of an analysis of pedagogical materials, which emphasize citation form. Model student papers also show a direct relationship with students’ citation practices. Implications for L2 writing pedagogy design include a need for more diversified pedagogical support in the classroom.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"105938662","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}

{"title":"Review of Doval and Sánchez Nieto (2019). Parallel Corpora for Contrastive and Translation Studies: New resources and applications","authors":"Andrea Flinn","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92480984","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}

{"title":"Voices from the periphery: Perceptions of Indonesian primary vs secondary pre-service teacher trainees about corpora and data-driven learning in the L2 English classroom","authors":"Peter Crosthwaite ,&nbsp;Luciana ,&nbsp;Martin Schweinberger","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Data-driven learning (DDL), or the use of language corpora for the purposes of language learning and teaching, has seen a marked increase in research interest within ICT-rich WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic) contexts. However, less is known about its adoption in nations such as Indonesia where ICT/CALL training is underdeveloped, a situation indicative of a potential “digital divide” between the haves and have-nots when it comes to adoption of DDL worldwide. The present study reports on a series of DDL workshops and lesson planning activities within a CALL<span><span> training program for pre-service L2 English-as-a-foreign-language teachers in Indonesia at both primary and secondary school levels. Training included an online course in DDL for academic writing, DDL expert's comments on trainees’ lesson plans, and a series of online workshops. Trainees’ perceptions of the training and the potential implementation of DDL within the Indonesian L2 English teaching context were explored through questionnaire and interview data. The findings painted a mixed picture of pre-service trainees’ appreciation for the potential of corpora to greatly assist the practice of language learning and teaching, tempered by acknowledgement that integrating corpora into classroom practice in the Indonesian context would be a considerable challenge. Primary school teachers were also significantly less likely than </span>secondary school teachers to be willing adopt corpora in their future teaching practice. We address the source of these concerns while offering suggestions for future DDL training involving pre-tertiary educators.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"108198632","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}

{"title":"Lexical bundles as an intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary mark: A corpus-based study of research articles from business, biology, and applied linguistics","authors":"Xiaoyi Yin,&nbsp;Shuangling Li","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study seeks to explore with a lexical-bundle approach the intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary variations between disciplines. It investigates the structural and functional features of lexical bundles in research articles from two business-type disciplines, finance and accounting, and those from two contrastive disciplines, biology and applied linguistics. The results suggest that, between the two business disciplines, while the bundle usages reveal similar intradisciplinary features (e.g. similar distribution of NP-based bundles and research-oriented bundles which are associated with “statistics”), they also indicate distinctive intradisciplinary features (e.g. ‘accounting’ articles contain a larger number of diversified clausal bundles and “resultative” bundles). In addition, the results show that lexical bundles can also act as an interdisciplinary mark. For instance, the significantly larger proportion of bundles in ‘business’ articles, compared to those in ‘biology’ or ‘applied linguistics’ articles, reveals its strong phraseological behaviour. These findings further support the positive role of lexical bundles in the understandings of disciplinary features.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"111255099","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}

{"title":"Review of Brezina (2018) statistics in corpus linguistics: A practical guide","authors":"Jack A. Hardy","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"112185404","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}

{"title":"Investigating predatory publishing in political science: a corpus linguistics approach","authors":"Ying Wang ,&nbsp;Josep Soler","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article explores the application of corpus linguistics methods in dealing with an underexplored area concerning predatory publishing, with a focus on lexical bundles and formulaicity. Using a comparative approach, the study employs two corpora of more than 1,6 million words, consisting of 220 research articles drawn from two comparable journals in the field of political science, one predatory and one top-ranking. The results show that writers publishing in the top-ranking journal use a more limited range of lexical bundles with a higher frequency, giving further evidence for the highly formulaic nature of the genre. The two groups of writers also display different preferences for lexical bundles with particular functions and/or forms. While the top-ranking journal articles feature more disciplinary-specific bundles with noticeable variation across the main sections of the research article, the predatory journal articles highlight in particular a set of common-core lexical bundles typical of general academic language use. Our findings also demonstrate the potential of lexical bundles in revealing the amount of scientific information research articles contain as well as the level of scientific literacy of the authors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49165642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}