The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical ...linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
This volume is grounded on the latest research in empirical contrastive language studies, addressing several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It results from an annual ...workshop on language contrasts, organised by the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), and covers a wider range of phenomena in phraseology, discourse and pragmatics. As it relies on data from parallel or comparable corpora, it gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed.The book will be useful to experts on language studies and advanced students with an interest in linguistics. It will serve as a catalyst to other researchers interested in the contrastive analysis of the English language. The results of the linguistic analyses described within will be valuable for practical applications in lexicography, language teaching and translation (both human and machine), including translator training.
Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation of ...hyperbole in English, drawing on data from genres such as spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary works from Chaucer to Monty Python. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, it uses approaches from semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and classical rhetoric to investigate in detail both speaker-centered and emotive aspects of hyperbole, and also addressee-related aspects, such as interpretation and interactional uptake. Illustrated with a range of diachronic case studies, hyperbole is also shown to be a main means of linguistic creativity, and an important contributor to language change. The book concludes with an exploration of the role of hyperbole in political speaking, humour, and literature. Original and in-depth, it will be invaluable to all those working on meaning, discourse, and historical linguistics.
The Corpus and the Critics Lee, Thomas R.; Mouritsen, Stephen C.
The University of Chicago law review,
03/2021, Letnik:
88, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Most any approach to interpretation of the language of law begins with a search for ordinary meaning. Increasingly, judges, scholars, and practitioners are highlighting shortcomings in our means for ...assessing such meaning. With this in mind, we have proposed the use of the tools of corpus linguistics to take up the task. Our proposals have gained traction but have also seen significant pushback.
The search for ordinary meaning poses a series of questions that are amenable to evaluation and analysis using evidence of language usage. And we have proposed to use the tools of corpus linguistics—tools for assessing patterns of language usage in large databases of naturally occurring language—to introduce transparent, falsifiable evidence on the questions at stake. Our critics raise a series of challenges, asserting that our methods test the wrong language community, pose notice problems, are inaccurate measures, and rest on certain fallacies.
We show that the criticisms are largely in error and ultimately highlight some of the main selling points of our proposed methods. We do so in reference to two canonical Supreme Court cases that have been discussed in the literature in this field (Muscarello v. United States and Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd.) and also a more recent case (Mont v. United States). In analyzing these cases (particularly the most recent one), we also outline a framework for some proposed refinements to the methods we have advocated previously.
La ortografía como cuestión ideológica en Twitter Cuadros-Muñoz, Roberto; Sancha Vázquez, Julián
Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación,
02/2023, Letnik:
93, Številka:
93
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la conciencia metalingüística de los usuarios de Twitter respecto de la ortografía del español desde un punto de vista político-ideológico. Para ello se ha ...realizado un estudio sociolingüístico a partir de un corpus constituido por 30225 tuits. Los resultados demuestran que los usuarios de Twitter utilizan mayoritariamente la cuestión ortográfica como un arma arrojadiza y un elemento de prestigio, a la vez que empieza a crecer el número de usuarios que considera que el uso y la preservación de las normas ortográficas son una muestra de clasismo, cuando no de puro elitismo social o racismo “colonial”.
The present study offers a novel methodology for corpus-based discourse analysis that combines Kenneth Burke's (1968, 1969) dramatistic method of text analysis and the corpus techniques of keyword ...extraction and concordance reading. Applying the methodology, a two-stage analysis of Donald Trump's 2016 Orlando speech has been conducted: First, at a micro level, (i) the keywords used by Trump were identified in his speech as compared against the historical reference corpus of US Presidents through WordSmith Tools (Scott, 2012), and (ii) Trump's keyword lexical structures were described and interpreted in the pentadic ratios rhetorically motivated by the "terministic screens" that select and deflect representations of the gay-nightclub-shooting event in the speech; second, at a macro level, the process of substantiating the whole speech event of Orlando was implemented in terms of the different types of substance - geometric, familial, and directional - recognized in the keywords clustering and linking in the speech. The study has reached two findings. First, methodologically, Burke's dramatistic method of text analysis and corpus-linguistics techniques have been synergized in a novel way that contributes to analysing the rhetorical language of political discourse, eventually yielding a corpus-based dramatistic discourse analysis. Second, practically, analysing the pentadic ratios of the speech keywords and their substance types has revealed Trump's rhetoric of selecting and deflecting certain representations of the Orlando political event through a specific ensemble of terministic screens and substantiations.
En este volumen se recogen veintiocho artículos relacionados con la compilación y el análisis de corpus diacrónicos especializados, que sirven de complemento a los corpus de la RAE. En algunos casos, ...se trata de corpus digitales ya disponibles en red, como CHARTA, CODEA, CODCAR, CORHEN, Post Scriptum, ODE, Corpus Mallorca, CORDICan, etc. En otros, de iniciativas para configurar nuevas bases de datos textuales y herramientas para el estudio diacrónico del español, desde la Edad Media hasta finales del XIX. El foco central de esta nueva infraestructura de investigación está en aportar nuevos datos (procedentes de tipologías documentales y de regiones poco representadas en CORDE y CDH) y en ofrecer mejores recursos para el análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de la documentación archivística.
