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Michael Partington, January 12, 2014
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Guitar Ensemble Michael Partington, director May 26, 2017
No full textConcert ProgramConcert Program for Guitar Ensemble Michael Partington, director May 26, 201
Faculty and Guest Artist Recital: Michael Partington, guitar and March Teicholz, guitar April 16, 2018
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Faculty and Guest Artist Recital: Music for Two Guitars with Michael Partington and Marc Teicholz April 24, 2016
No full textConcert ProgramFaculty and Guest Artist Recital: Music for Two Guitars with Michael Partington and Marc Teicholz April 24, 201
Guitar Studio Recital Michael Partington, director February 9, 2018
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Remembering Michael Hoey's work
No full textProf. Michael Hoey was one of Britain’s leading academic linguists and language theorists who made transformative contributions in the areas of text and discourse analysis, and in corpus-based lexicology and dictionary-building. Hoey’s body of academic work spanned five decades, during which linguistic theory underwent a sea-change. Hoey was one of scholars not only creating the change but also making it comprehensible to a worldwide audience.
Hoey’s early work, in days when dealing with discourse above the level of the sentence was still a novelty, presents a fascinating picture of how relations among sections of texts can be categorised into a limited set of patterns, including Sequence (e.g. Time, Consequence) and Matching (e.g. Contrast, Exemplification) relations.
Hoey viewed all discourse, including writing, as a dialogue of sorts, and his work on cohesion, which aims to aid receiver comprehension, shows how the majority of the physical signals of the semantic relations connecting the different parts of a text are lexical items of some sort, and reversed tradition notions of the frequency and significance of lexical cohesion in relation to grammatical.
His later work on lexical priming demonstrated in meticulous detail how extremely complex the associative behaviour of all lexical items is. It presents a new theory of language, of how we internalise knowledge of this associative behaviour by exposure to language, reproduce it in our own speech and thus continue the cycle of lexical priming of others in our various language communities
Guitar Ensemble May 27, 2016
No full textConcert ProgramGuitar Ensemble Michael Partington, director May 27, 201
Two ways of sticking together and getting along in discourse: propositional cohesion and evaluative cohesion.
No full textIn this paper, we intend to describe two systems of what is often referred to as ‘standard’ cohesion, namely entity/propositional cohesion and evaluative cohesion, the first of which has been far more extensively analysed in the discipline of linguistics, especially, grammar, than the latter. Cohesion means, of course, ‘sticking together’. According to Thompson (1996:147-??) cohesion teaches a ‘set of resources’, which ‘the speaker [writer] attempts to employ to enable the listener [reader] to make sense of a piece of communication by ‘organizing the ways in which the meanings are expressed’, by having them connect together in some way. Here we have to underline that the kind of ‘meanings’ held together in standard cohesion practice range from simple entities, objects, people, places to more complex propositions encapsulated in lengthy stretches of text. ‘Standard” cohesion, then affords a set of tools and techniques by which the the speaker [writer] hopes to make the flow of text comprehensible (often named ‘coherent’) to an audience and, in some forms of texts, also engaging.
However, the study of standard cohesion can tell us a great deal about how a text is rendered coherent, but it sheds little light on the communicative (the perlocutionary) intents of the speaker [writer] in the first place, that is, why and what it is they wish to communicate and how. A vast amount of human communication involves the expression of evaluation; in essence the appraisal of an entity as good or bad, though good or bad in an infinity of different ways. We very rarely discuss entities or propositions without evaluating them in some way. Indeed the presentation and arrangement of information without the speaker [writer] evaluation would not only by very dry but largely uninformative on an interpersonal level.
Texts then are also held together, they cohere, in terms of the evaluations they express, and it is the study of evaluative coherence (sometimes referred to as evaluative harmony) which sheds light on what speakers [writers] intend to do when they communicate to others. As Aristotle noted, human communication largely consists in attempts to connnect with and to influence the beliefs and even behaviour of other people (Partington, Duguid and Taylor 2013 ??), in other words, to persuade them (of everything from the fact that you are a person worth listening to, to how they should spend their money, to how they should vote.)
In order to study how evaluative cohesion functions in detail, we will utilise concordancing of relevant lexical items, lexical templates often called units of meaning, as they appear in the Siena-Bologna (SiBol) Modern Diachronic Corpora suite of corpora. This consists of four sister corpora, the first three of UK newspaper texts from different but contemporary periods in time, designed and compiled to be as alike as possible to eliminate potentially complicating variables. They contain all the articles published by the three main UK broadsheet or so-called ‘quality’ newspapers, namely The Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian in the years 1993 (the SiBol 93 corpus), 2005 (the SiBol 05 corpus) and 2010 (the SiBol 2010 corpus). They contain, respectively, circa 100 million words, 150 million and 140 million words. The 2013 corpus wave, instead, contains the output of that year of 12 English language newspapers, including the original The Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian plus two UK tabloids, the Mirror and the Mail, two US newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, the Times of India, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), Daily News (Egypt), Gulf News (UAE), This Day Lagos (Nigeria). It contains a total of 327 million words
Modern diachronic corpus-assisted language studies: methodologies fro tracking language change over recent time.
No full textThis paper presents a description of the tools and methodologies employed in the novel discipline of modern diachronic corpus-assisted language studies. The main instruments are a set of three ‘sister’ corpora of parallel structure and content from different moments of contemporary time, namely 1993, 2005 and 2010, along with a number of corpus interrogation tools. The methodologies are the particular techniques devised by the research team to which the author belongs (the SiBol group) for employing these interrogation tools to shed light on the various research questions treated in the paper.
The first part of the paper outlines ways in which these tools and techniques can be used to track changes in the grammar, lexis and discourse practices of UK broadsheet or ‘quality’ newspapers. Given the important role of newspapers, some of these changes may well be indicative of general changes in UK written English. The second part, instead, describes a number of studies conducted by the research group into how the reporting of various social and cultural themes and issues, ranging from what is seen as a moral issue, to the rhetoric of appeals to science, to how antisemitism is debated, has developed over the time period in question. The concluding section discusses the relationship between the methodologies employed in modern diachronic corpus-assisted language studies and wider scientific research methodology.
SiBol is a portmanteau of Siena and Bologna, the two universities involved in initiating the project. http://www3.lingue.unibo.it/clb
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