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Using corpora in discourse analysis / Paul Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Paul, 1972-
- Series:
- Continuum discourse series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, [2006]
- Summary:
- Examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. This book evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora.
- Contents:
- Corpus Linguistics 1
- Discourse 3
- The shift to post-structuralism 5
- Advantages of the corpus-based approach to discourse analysis 10
- Reducing researcher bias 10
- The incremental effect of discourse 13
- Resistant and changing discourses 14
- Triangulation 15
- Some concerns 17
- Chapter 2 Corpus Building 25
- Some types of corpora 26
- Capturing data 31
- Scanning and keying in 34
- Spoken Texts 35
- Online texts 36
- Annotation 38
- Using a reference corpus 43
- Chapter 3 Frequency and Dispersion 47
- Join the club 49
- Frequency counts 51
- Considering clusters 56
- Dispersion plots 59
- Comparing demographic frequencies 62
- Chapter 4 Concordances 71
- Investigating discourses of refugees 73
- Sorting concordances 77
- Analysing the remainder 85
- Semantic preference and discourse prosody 87
- Points of concern 90
- Step-by-step guide to concordance analysis 93
- Chapter 5 Collocates 95
- Deriving collocates 100
- Identifying discourses from collocates 104
- Resistant discourses 113
- Collocational networks 116
- Step-by-step guide to collocational analysis 119
- Chapter 6 Keyness 121
- Frequency revisited 121
- Introducing keyness 125
- Analysis of keywords 128
- Using a reference corpus 138
- Key clusters 142
- Key categories 145
- Possible uses of keywords 148
- Chapter 7 Beyond Collocation 153
- Nominalization 155
- Searching with grammatical tags 157
- Collocations of grammatical forms 159
- Modality 162
- Attribution 164
- Metaphor 168
- Further directions 175
- Corpus building 178
- Corpus analysis 180.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826477240
- 0826477259
- OCLC:
- 63400006
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