Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rautionaho, Paula, editor.

Nurmi, Arja, editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (39th : 2018 : Tampereen yliopisto)

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; 96.

Studies in corpus linguistics ; 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar--Data processing--Congresses.

English language.

English language--Research--Data processing--Congresses.

English language--Discourse analysis--Data processing--Congresses.

English language--Variation--History--Congresses.

English language--Social aspects--Congresses.

Computational linguistics--Congresses.

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics, we hope, is beneficial for both parties, as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change, while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies".

Contents:

Intro

Corpora and the Changing Society

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Corpora and the changing society

Part I. Changing society

The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change

1. Introduction

2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data

2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies) 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies

2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious

2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment

2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change

3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative

3.1 The English make-causative construction

3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics 3.3 Using distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative

3.4 Discussion

4. Conclusions

References

Corpora

Other references

Changes in society and language: Charting poverty

2. Data and pre-processing

2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus

2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus

2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization

3. Methods

3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches

3.2 Document classification

3.3 Topic modelling

3.4 Conceptual maps

4. Results and discussion

4.1 Dictionary-based approach 4.2 Topic modelling

4.3 Conceptual maps

5. Conclusions

Corpora and software

Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800

2. Background

3. Materials and method

4. Results

4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700)

4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800)

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Other references Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change

2. Data and methods

2.1 Data and tools

2.2 Tracking the neosemes

3. Case studies

3.1 Case study 1: Birther

3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation

3.3 Case study 3: Cougar

3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake

3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting

4. Discussion

4.1 Challenges

4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance

4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study

5. Conclusion

Corpora and tools

Other references.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789027261311

9027261318