Corpora, Grammar and Discourse

Name: Corpora, Grammar and Discourse | In honour of Susan Hunston
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In honour of Susan Hunston

Nicholas Groom Maggie Charles Suganthi John(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 30. October 2015

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Corpora, Grammar and Discourse
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Editors' foreword
Corpora, grammar, and discourse analysis
1. Introduction
2. A note on terminology
3. Corpora and grammar
4. Corpora and discourse analysis
5. Erasing the boundaries
6. Challenges ahead
References
1. Pattern grammar and transitivity analysis
1. Introduction
2. Semantic and lexicogrammatical strata
2.1 Stratal blurring in transitivity
3. Identifying key lexicogrammatical features of transitivity
3.1 Demonstrating the approach
4. Conclusion
References
2. Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions
1. Introduction: Analysing verb-argument constructions (VACs) at scale
2. From COBUILD patterns to corpus VACs
2.1 Defining search graphs from COBUILD descriptions
2.2 Checking precision and recall of VAC searches
2.3 Refining the search graphs
2.4 Balancing precision and recall against fidelity to COBUILD definitions
3. Initial results: VACs in a corpus
3.1 A frequency-ranked type-token VAC profile
3.2 Determining the contingency between verbs and VACs
3.3 Identifying the meaning of verb types occupying the constructions and constructing a semantic graph/network
4. VACs in the mind: Native speaker and learner evidence
4.1 Native speaker and learner verb preferences vs. corpus findings
4.2 Learner vs. native speaker verb preferences
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
3. "Hugh's across all that"
1. Introduction
2. Some developing uses of spoken preposition patterns
2.1 "Hugh's across all that": The pattern BE across n
2.2 "Sounds like you're all over it": The pattern BE all over n
2.3 "I'm on it": The pattern BE on it
3. "Issues around the problem": The pattern N around n
3.1 The pattern N around n in dictionaries and grammars
3.2 Evidence for the pattern N around n in the BNC
3.3 N around n in ukWaC: A rapidly evolving pattern
3.4 The meanings of the N elements in N around n
3.5 Phraseology and semantic sequences
3.5.1 Within the pattern (1): Collocations to the right of around
3.5.2 Within the pattern (2): Coordination
3.5.3 Semantic sequences: The wider context of 'issues around n'
3.6 Text types
3.7 A note on frequency
4. Some developing uses of complex prepositions
4.1 Using 'spatial' prepositions to sequence events: Ahead of
4.2 A cautionary tale: Ahead of and the invasion of Iraq
4.3 Is 'before' really an endangered species?
4.4 Further complex prepositions with 'new' temporal meanings
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
4. The textual functions of lexis
1. Introduction
2. Data, software and conventions
3. Word distribution and text structure
4. Word classes and text structure
5. Collocations and text structure
6. Lexicogrammatical constructions and text structure
7. A functional theory of lexis
8. A case study of a single lemma: ALLEVIATE
9. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
5. Examining associations between lexis and textual position in hard news stories or according to a study by.
1. Introduction
1.1 Background: Corpus data and Psycholinguistic theory
1.2 Outline
2. Overview of the corpus and method
2.1 Building positional subcorpora
2.2 Intra-textual keyword analysis
3. Examining the key phrase according to a for its patterns of usage
3.1 Sentence position of ATA in TISC and NISC
3.2 Semantic associations of ATA in TISC and NISC
3.3 Colligation patterns for ATA in TISC sentences
4. Examining the textual functions of according to a
4.1 Textual collocation of ATA
4.2 Textual semantic association of ATA
5. Methodological and theoretical implications of findings
References
6. I mean I only really wanted to dry me towels because .
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Findings and discussion
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
7. Probably most important of all
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Evaluations of importance
3.1 Stance and engagement
3.2 Organisational units and message-oriented units
3.3 Evaluators and textual voices
3.4 Claiming Importance and referring to importance in academic discourse
3.5 Semantic intensity and functional highlighting
4. Comparative analysis
4.1 Adjectives and their collocations
4.2 The nominal element as head and qualifier: Importance/significance
4.3 Adverbs in text
4.4 Patterns and semantic sequences
5. Conclusions
References
2. Previous studies
3. Data and methodology
4. Results
4.1 The Academic Spoken corpus (ACAD Spoken)
4.2 MICASE lectures
4.3 MICASE seminars
5. Mining the data: Alternative methods of analysis
6. Conclusion
References
9. General extenders in learner language
1. Introduction
2. Previous work
3. Data
4. General extenders and frameworks
5. General frequencies
6. Short and long forms
7. Correct uses and mismatches
8. Variation between learners
9. Comparison with other learner corpora
10. Functions of general extenders in learner and native speaker data
10.1 General extenders and shared knowledge
10.2 Or-extenders as hedges
10.3 General extenders and intensification
11. Conclusion
References
10. Language description and language learning
1. Two basic functions of grammar: Structure and orientation
2. Some problems with rule-based teaching
3. Lexical phrases
3.1 The principle of idiom
4. Lexical priming and chaos theory
5. The learner as researcher
6. The pedagogic corpus
7. A sample task-based lesson plan
8. Some further implications: Learners must engage with text
9. Constructing a pedagogic corpus
10. Exploiting the pedagogic corpus
11. The grammar of structure and orientation revisited
12. Recycling elements of the pedagogic corpus
13. Conclusion
References
11. "What we contrarians already know"
1. Introduction
2. Attitudinal identity
3. Corpus linguistics and the analysis of attitudinal identity
4. Attitudinal identity: Unique or shared
5. An introduction to the data
5.1 Ockham's Razor - a brief introduction
5.2 Texts and corpora
6. Attitudinal identity in Ockham's Razor
6.1 Introduction to the construal of attitudinal identity in Retro Revenge
6.2 Pronoun usage in Retro Revenge
6.3 How are pronouns used in Retro Revenge?
6.4 How similar/different is Retro Revenge compared to all of Herrick's talks?
6.5 How was RR taken up by members of the public?
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix 1
Comments on RR
Dave:
Bruce:
Alexander:
Junk Pile John:
Barry:
John:
Robin:
Appendix 2
12. Does Britain need any more foreign doctors? Inter-analyst consistency and corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
4. Conclusion
References
Publications by Susan Hunston
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