PPT-Corpus approaches to Discourse analysis

Lesson 2 Quick recap Corpus approaches to discourse authentic texts corpus Corpus From the Latin for body plural corpora a corpus is a body of language representative of a particular variety of language or genre which is collected and stored in electronic form for analysis using concordance software . Stylistics: Corpus Approaches Martin Wynne inserted into the electronic text as tags, or annotations. This activity procedures involved in word-clascursive and stylistic categories (see also Leech 1 Ilina. . Doykova. Shumen . University, . Shumen . (Bulgaria). ilina.doykova@abv.bg. Statistical analysis. Simple things may characterise different styles. average sentence length. average word length. Discourse, genre and discourse type. Definitions of discourse. The literature provides . many different . definitions of “discourse” (see . Jaworski. and . Coupland. 1-37 for an overview). In reality they have more overlap than would appear at first sight.. “It’s a capital mistake to theorize before one has data”. (. A.Conan. Doyle, Sherlock Holmes - A scandal in Bohemia). CADS. recognition and quantification of . patterns. systematic analysis of serendipitous . IT IS ALWAYS BE A BIG QUESTION.. What is discourse?. THE FIRST THING TO KNOW IS . SCHRIFFIN ET AL (2003) NOTE THAT THERE ARE “THREE MAIN CATEGORIES” OF DISCOURSE DEFINITION . ANYTHING BEYOND THE SENTENCE;. “CDA [is]fundamentally interested in analyzing opaque as well as transparent structural relationships of dominance, discrimination, power, and control when these are manifested in language. In other words, CDA aims to investigate critically social inequality as it is expressed, constituted, and legitimized by language use.” (. Adam. Rosenberg, Leandra Irvine, Gus . Logsdon. Twitter: New Huge Microblogging Platform. 2010. Twitter…. Daily Life. Variety of People . Twitter is Useful!. Politics. Marketing. Sentiment Analysis. LM1 – Boyd . 2016/17. 20. . October 2015. traditional grammar. “a somewhat loose ‘umbrella term’ covering a range of approaches to the study of language” (Coffin & O’Halloran) focuses . and . M.Spyridakis. , . Spetses. , June 2017 . Discourse . is no longer or solely either the study of linguistic forms or the study of language use.. Discourse . is . rather viewed . as a social . practice referring either to spoken or to written contexts.. (but first, a brief overview of Cultural Studies). o. verview of the “Introduction” from . Film Analysis. , edited by Jeffrey Geiger, 2005, Norton Press, NYC (with some stuff from JC thrown in here and there). Discourse analysis study the ways sentences and utterances. (speech). go together to make texts and interactions and how those texts and interactions fit into our social world.. It should be noticed also that discourse analysis is not just the study of language, but a way of looking at language as well.. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines http://cadaad.net/journal Vol 4 (2): 197 continuous stretch of language larger than . a sentence. , often constituting a coherent unit. , such . as sermon, argument, joke or narrative. .”. (. Crystal:1992). “stretches . of language perceived to be meaningful, . Václav Cvrček, Charles University (. vaclav.cvrcek@ff.cuni.cz. ). Masako Fidler, Brown University (. masako_fidler@brown.edu. ). Slovko. 2023, October 20. Bratislava. This study was supported by the NPO .