Korpus internetowy jako źródło informacji lingwistycznej: ograniczenia

Aleksander Kiklewicz

doi:10.31648/pj.4560

Korpus internetowy jako źródło informacji lingwistycznej: ograniczenia

Prace Językoznawcze ◽

10.31648/pj.4560 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 75-97

Author(s):

Aleksander Kiklewicz

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Corpus Analysis

The author shows several limitations of the corpus-based linguistic informationin syntactic studies. In the case of the most frequent phenomena, corpusanalysis is effective, but it does not always allow to document less typicalphenomena (for example, occasional and potential combinations of tokens). Oneof the author’s conclusions is that corpus analysis should be configured withintrospection and qualitative analysis.

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Exploring the Discursive Construction of Obedience: An Analysis of Application Letters for the Position of Executioner in Hitler’s Germany

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique ◽

10.1007/s11196-020-09808-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Leisser ◽

Katie Bray ◽

Anaruth Hernández ◽

Doha Nasr

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Legal History ◽

Empirical Investigation ◽

Corpus Analysis ◽

Discursive Construction ◽

National Socialist ◽

Discursive Strategies ◽

National Socialist State ◽

Interdisciplinary Framework ◽

Research Questions

AbstractThis article presents an empirical investigation into the construction of obedience in letters of applications mailed to National Socialist authorities for the position of executioner between the years 1933 and 1945. To this end, a corpus of 178 letters of application was compiled, annotated, and analyzed using the corpus analysis toolkits Antconc and Lancsbox. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the corpus was conducted. The findings were related to and interpreted from the perspectives of applied legal linguistics, stylistics, and legal history. The project aims to explore the construction of a shared discourse of obedience and how this discourse is operative in the letters of application. Drawing on an explorative interdisciplinary framework, this project seeks to answer the following research questions: Is obedience a construct in applicants’ letters of motivation? Which linguistic devices and discursive strategies are used by the executioners to express submission to officials of the National Socialist state? Are there variants of the construction of submission by applicants?

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Analysing headlines as a way of downsizing news corpora: Evidence from an Arabic–English comparable corpus of newspaper articles

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities ◽

10.1093/llc/fqz074 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 826-844 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ahmad S Haider ◽

Riyad F Hussein

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Quantitative Analysis ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Turning Point ◽

Corpus Analysis ◽

The Other ◽

News Story ◽

The Guardian ◽

News Headlines ◽

Newspaper Articles

Abstract This study examines whether a qualitative analysis of news headlines produces complementary, convergent, or dissonant findings with a quantitative analysis of the full news story. Headlines are among the most important parts of a news story and its summary. This study investigates the construction of Qaddafi in the headlines of two newspapers before and during the 2011 Libyan civil war. This is based on a sub-corpus of headlines that was taken from a 6.5-million-word corpus of two newspapers; one published in English; The Guardian, and the other in Arabic; Asharq Al-Awsat from 2009 to 2011. The analysis of the headlines has produced complementary and convergent findings with the corpus analysis and suggests that the 2011 Libyan civil war represents a turning point on how Qaddafi is represented in the investigated newspapers. This study concludes that analysing headlines proves to be a good down-sampling option to reduce large news corpora to a workable amount of data.

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Internal variety in the use of Slovene general extenders in different spoken discourse settings

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics ◽

10.1075/ijcl.20.4.02ver ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 445-468 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Darinka Verdonik

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

High Variability ◽

Corpus Analysis ◽

Speech Corpus ◽

Spoken Discourse ◽

Slovene Language ◽

Spoken Interaction

In the present paper, we investigate a group of markers in spoken interaction, commonly termed general extenders (GEs). We compare their usage in different discourse settings within the reference speech corpus of the Slovene language GOS. The results show that there is a high variability of GE form, but that most forms are rarely used. GEs are generally less frequent in public and formal settings, such as classes and radio and television informative broadcasts, and more frequent in private settings. Substantial differences are found not only between the two groups of GEs, adjunctive and disjunctive, but also between particular GE expressions. We argue that mere qualitative analysis of pragmatic expressions such as GEs is not sufficient for reliable conclusions, and that quantitative corpus analysis can provide additional insights into GE functions, especially considering the differences between the two groups of GEs, adjunctives and disjunctives, and between particular GE expressions.

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