Multilingual Corpus Research : Advances and Challenges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramón, Noelia.

Series:

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series

Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series ; v.126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpora (Linguistics).

Multilingualism.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research utilising parallel, comparable, and novel types of corpora beyond this traditional two-fold distinction.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Introduction Exploring multilingual corpora in linguistic research

1. Multilingual corpora: Parallel, comparable and beyond

2. Contributions to this volume

References

Chapter 1 Representation of Syrian and Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers in the discourse of mainstream media

1. Introduction

2. Representation and metaphor in the discourse on refugees and asylum seekers

2.1 The context: The Syrian and the Ukrainian refugee crises

2.2 Representation, evaluation, and emotional coercion

2.3 Representation of refugees: Referential and predicational strategies

2.3.1 Referential strategies

2.3.2 Predicational strategies

2.3.3 Evaluative strategies

2.4 Critical Metaphor Analysis

2.4.1 Metaphor scenarios

2.4.2 Image schemas

2.5 Metaphor scenarios and force schemas

2.5.1 Container schema

2.5.2 Force schema

3. Methodology

3.1 Hypotheses

3.1.1 Representation

3.1.2 Metaphor scenarios and image schemas

3.2 Corpus

3.3 Research objectives and procedures

3.4 Analysis and annotation

4. Results and discussion

4.1 Results and discussion for representation: Referential, predicational, and evaluative strategies

4.2 Results and discussion for image schemas: FORCE and CONTAINER

4.2.1 FORCE schema

4.2.1.1 Syrian crisis

4.2.1.2 Ukrainian crisis

4.2.2 CONTAINER schema

4.2.2.1 Syrian crisis

4.2.2.2 Ukrainian crisis

4.2.3 Discussion of results

5. Conclusions

Funding

Chapter 2 Effective stance in English and Spanish newspaper opinion articles on irregular immigration and humanitarian crises

2. Effective stance: Concept, types, criteria and review of the literature

2.1 The concepts of epistemic and effective stance

2.2 Subcategories of effective stance.

2.3 Criteria for delimiting effective stance

2.4 Review of the literature on effective stance

3. Aims of the paper and research hypotheses

4. Corpus description and annotation

4.1 The corpus

4.2 The annotation and statistical analysis

5. Results and discussion

5.1 Use of effective stance expressions in The Independent versus El Mundo

5.1.1 Deonticity and Potentiality: The preferred choice

5.1.1.1 DM in The Independent and El Mundo

5.1.1.2 POT in The Independent and El Mundo

5.1.2 NRM, DIR, INC and INT markers in The Independent and El Mundo

5.2 Effective stance categories used in humanitarian and immigration subcorpora

5.2.1 DM and POT across subcorpora

5.2.2 DIR and NRM across subcorpora

6. Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Chapter 3 The use of effectivity in opinion articles about the Ukraine migrant crisis

2. Theoretical background

2.1 Opinion sharing and stance taking

2.2 Effective stance

3. Corpus and methodology

3.1 Corpus selection

3.2 Analytic procedure

4.1 Usage frequencies of effective stance in English and Spanish

4.2 Realisations of effective stance in English and Spanish

Chapter 4 The role of epistemic stance in shaping conservative newspaper opinion narratives on refugees and irregular immigrants in the UK and Spain

2. Epistemic stance: Concept and subcategories

2.1 Factivity

2.2 Epistemic modality

2.3 Evidentiality

3.1 The corpus: Compilation and composition

3.2 Corpus coding scheme

3.3 Research questions

4.1 Contextual factors shaping conservative opinion journalism on immigration in the UK and Spain.

4.2 Evolving narratives on irregular immigration and refugee crises

4.3 Epistemic stance and narrative framing of irregular immigrants and refugees in British versus Spanish conservative opinion articles

4.4 Epistemic stance and narrative framing of the irregular immigration versus refugee crises in British and Spanish conservative opinion articles

Chapter 5 Personal and non-personal epistemic stance in Spanish and Galician political opinion articles

1. Introduction1

2. Literature review on stance

2.1 Cognitive factives

2.2 Cognitive attitudes

2.3 Indirect inferential evidentiality

2.4 Aphonic or ignorative attitude

2.5 Marked enunciational positioning

3. Research hypotheses

4. Data and method

5.1 Quantitative and qualitative analysis of stance in Spanish

5.2 Quantitative and qualitative analysis of stance in Galician

5.3 Cross-linguistic variation of epistemic stance in Spanish and Galician

Chapter 6 Do we think populists actually do something?

2. National contexts of Belgium, France, and Spain

3. Theoretical background and key notions

4. Methodology

4.1 Data

4.2 Annotation method

5.1 Who are the populists?

5.2 Populists and intentionality

5.3 Patient or agent representation

5.4 Labelling others as populist(s) and contesting the categorisation as populists

Chapter 7 The terminology of inclusion in English and Spanish newspapers

2. The corpora: DISCORP-PRESS and DISCORP-PRESS-IN

2.1 Characteristics and compilation of DISCORP-PRESS and DISCORP-PRESS-IN

3. Methodology.

4. Case studies on the Spanish terms inclusión, integración, and inserción

4.1 Term 1: Inclusión

4.1.1 Results for inclusión in ABC

4.1.2 Results for inclusión in El País

4.2 Term 2: Integración

4.2.1 Results for integración in ABC

4.2.2 Results for integración in El País

4.3 Term 3: Inserción

4.3.1 Results for inserción in ABC

4.3.2 Results for inserción in El País

5. Case studies for the English terms inclusion, integration, and insertion

5.1 Results for The Guardian

5.2 Results for The Telegraph

6. Discussion of results

7. Conclusions

Chapter 8 How economists modify their claims

2. Previous studies on argumentation

3. Research objectives

4. Research design, methods and materials

4.1 Corpus and data sources

4.2 Analytical approach

5. Analysis and results

5.1 Epistemic and attitudinal stance markers in English and Italian

5.2 Semantic domains of stance markers in English and Italian

5.3 Cross-linguistic comparison of argumentation

6. Discussion

Chapter 9 Foretellers or forecasters?

1. Introduction: The controversial art and science of prediction

2. Previous research on the language of forecasting

2.1 The language of forecasting in economic discourse

2.2 Modal and lexical verbs in predictions: A focus on English and Italian

3. Research objectives, data and method

4. Analysis and discussion

4.1 Modal verbs in English and Italian

4.2 Lexical verbs in English and Italian

Chapter 10 Parallel corpora and translation history

2. The TRACE project and its methodology

3. The anchor terms resource

4. The use of anchor terms in theatre texts

4.1 Data and methods (theatre texts analysis).

4.2 Results (theatre texts analysis)

5. The use of anchor terms in narrative texts

5.1 Data and methods (narrative texts analysis)

5.2 Results (narrative texts analysis)

6. Conclusions and future work

Primary sources

Secondary sources

Chapter 11 be/estar + gerund

2. be/estar + gerund1 as aspect markers

2.1 English be + gerund

2.2 Spanish estar + gerund

3. Data and method

4. The study

4.1 Mutual correspondence

4.2 Meaning(s) and cross-linguistic meaning-form mapping

4.3 Reverse mutual correspondence

4.4 Discussion and limitations of the study

5. Conclusions and future directions

Chapter 12 Extracting translation equivalents from a near-parallel corpus of news texts

2. Towards the extension of the Paralela corpus

3. Bilingual phraseology extraction

4. Conclusions

Chapter 13 A contrastive study of the second-person pronouns tú/usted in translated and original Spanish

2. Theoretical background: The personal subject pronouns you, tú, and usted

2.1 The pragmatic functions of you, tú, and usted

2.2 The effects of changes in translation

3.1 Corpora

3.2 Sampling

3.3 Statistics and quantitative analysis

4.1 The Spanish pronouns tú and usted in original and translated texts

4.2 Comparing original and translated Spanish pronouns tú and usted

4.3 Comparing translated pronouns tú and usted in fiction and non-fiction

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4391-3

9789027243911

OCLC:

1574806016