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Patterns, fixedness and variability: using PoS-grams to find phraseologies in the language of travel journalism
Full text linkAs considerable attention has been paid in recent years to variability within fixed sequences (e.g. Biber, 2009; and
Gray and Biber, 2013), this paper describes the use of a Corpus Linguistics technique, the Part-of-Speech-gram
(usually abbreviated to PoS-gram), that allows potential variability across all slots, and is extremely effective for the
discovery of phraseologies that might otherwise remain hidden. A PoS-gram is a string of Part-of-Speech categories
(Stubbs, 2007) the tokens of which are strings of words that have been annotated with these PoS tags. Hence, in
each slot of the PoS-gram, any word can occur as long as it belongs to the PoS category of that particular position.
Despite the vast potential of this technique, it has up to now been largely underused.
This paper will illustrate the utility of PoS-grams by way of analysis of a 450,000 token corpus composed of travel
journalism texts from the BBC website. The PoS-grams extracted are compared with a database of PoS-grams
obtained from the 100M token BNC. While a large number were found to be statistically significant, in-depth
analysis was conducted on PoS-grams containing the inflected superlative adjective form AJS, a feature previously
recognized as being central to tourism/travel-writing though without reference to corpus-based techniques (e.g. Dann, 1996)
The effects of grain structure and Cu distribution on the relability of near-bamboo Al-Cu alloy interconnects
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-289).by Brett D. Knowlton.Ph.D
Compliment patterns in English: L1 and L2 production in the virtual exchange environment
No full textVirtual exchanges offer affordances for the learning of L2 pragmatics as they allow participants to engage in authentic social interactions with expert L2 speakers. As such they constitute a valuable environment for L2 acquisition, especially in cases where study abroad is not feasible. Although there has been some interest in exploring the influence of virtual exchanges on L2 learners’ use of speech acts, compliment formulation has yet to be extensively explored. The virtual exchange discussed in this study involved L2 learners of English from Poland who interacted for six weeks, via video conferencing, with TESOL teacher trainees at a university in the USA. Before and after the project, the participants completed tasks to elicit their production of compliments. The significance of the study is twofold. Firstly, the L1 speakers’ responses to the task revealed more frequent use of certain syntactic patterns in complimenting behaviours (e.g. the increased use of informal ellipsis) in comparison to previous studies. Secondly, the compliments produced by the advanced L2 learners of English were seen to develop so as to resemble those of their L1 peers, contributing to a growing body of evidence suggesting that virtual exchange is a useful tool for fostering the enhancement of L2 speakers’ pragmatic skills. Interestingly, this development was seen to regard syntactic, but not lexical, features
From Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture
Full text linkBrett D. Hirsch, “From Jew to Puritan: The Emblematic Owl in Early English Culture.” ‘This Earthly Stage’: World and Stage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch and Christopher Wortham. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 131-72. Cursor Mundi 13
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Bringing Richard Brome Online
Full text linkBrett D. Hirsch, “Bringing Richard Brome Online.” Early Theatre 13.1 (2010): 137-53
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