texts a corpus based study of explicitation

... an important another any other some particular aspect aspect aspect aspect aspect aspect aspect aspect aspect aspect A CORPUS- BASED STUDY OF COLLOCATION Of Is Ratio between Which computing Call ... Crystal, D (2003) A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics Oxford, England: Blackwell A CORPUS- BASED STUDY OF COLLOCATION 309 Deignan, A (1997) A corpus- based study of some linguistic features of ... Note Data are from the Bank of English aIn the case of goal, only the metaphorical sense has been included in the data 304 TESOL QUARTERLY the data that this feature of exactness is largely lacking

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2019, 22:21

... At the same time, there have been a large number of different software programs installed for keywords and collocations extract from corpus data Such software packages have made easier access ... studies, vocabulary has even gained much more attention Essential and crucial as it has become, vocabulary has been highlighted as the basis of language and communication Wilkins, an outstanding British ... VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI University of languages and international studies Faculty of post-graduate studies ĐÀO THỊ NGỌC NGUYÊN A corpus- based study on collocations of keywords

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2021, 07:52

... character However, because legal professionals are trained to understand and navigate this specialized language (often archaic), legalese can create barriers for the lay public (Tiersma & Solan, ... MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF LAW GRADUATION THESIS B .A DEGREE IN ENGLISH Major: Legal English LEGALESE OR PLAIN LANGUAGE?: A CORPUS- BASED STUDY ON THE LANGUAGE OF ... selected features Table Description of the corpus design Table Average number of words per dot Table The prevalence of relative clauses and conjunctions in contract corpus Table Frequency of archaic

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2023, 18:01

... essays (Samples and in Table 5) Argumentative essays generally exhibit higher syntactic complexity than narrative essays The subset of data that comprises timed argumentative and narrative essays ... complexification as far as subordination is concerned’’ (Ortega, 2003, p 514), based on the expectation that advanced proficiency groups should capitalize on complexification at the phrasal, rather than ... to each other, and how their relationships to proficiency are affected by external factors A major advantage of this research over previous studies is the investigation of a large set of measures

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2019, 22:21

... Translation in the Financial Press Idiom Translation in the Financial Press: A Corpus- based Study By Despoina Panou Idiom Translation in the Financial Press: A Corpus- based Study, by Despoina ... 57 Adam, A 59 Ahmad, K 168 Aijmer, K 68 Alexander, R.J 12 Alnaser, M 216 Altenberg, B 68 Alvstad, C 217 Anastasiou, D 40-41 Angelone, E 218 Arnold, D 37, 39 Atkins, B.T.S 73 Awwad, M 45-46 B Baker, ... Erlbaum Vega-Moreno, R 2007 Creativity and Convention The Pragmatics of Everyday Figurative Speech Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Vrontoulaki, A 2010 E-mail to Despoina Panou 31 March

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2020, 10:02

... use of a new framework for metaphorical analysis This can be seen as an attempt to potentially extend and triangulate intuition -based manual analysis and the concordancing of pre-selected search ... University of Maryland in terms of transparency The Guardian was awarded the National Newspaper of the Year in 1999, 2006 and 2011 by the British Press Awards in addition to garnering the accolade as ... time-consuming than a purely manual analysis” (p.11) Finally, this thesis also aims to add to a growing body of research on metaphor in actual contexts of use in a genrespecific comparative study 1.3 Background:...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... view of language where the social and cognitive aspects are integral to formulation of theory and the analysis of data Such an approach foregrounds the salience of temporal and contextual factors ... that are often the result of specific contextual/experiential factors Thus, with this awareness in mind, an accurate metaphor analysis can be accomplished through an amalgamation of a topdown and ... “variability in intuitions” and the “lack of precision” that has plagued traditional metaphor analysis so far (p.2) The use of corpus- based dictionaries and large, representative corpora are also...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... iterations), a systematic analysis of the range of conceptual metaphors and their relevant interconnections can be obtained A deeper analysis of the relevant contexts and ideas can be achieved through an ... key advantage of this diagrammatical approach lies in the way the analyst has to take into account the holistic socio-political and cultural contexts in order to account for the resultant metaphorical ... Orientational/Spatial Metaphors and Image/Analogybased Metaphors (See Section 3.3.4) The overall distribution of the metaphor categories and the associated metaphors are captured in Table 3.4 120 Table...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... research is based on corpus data or found data rather than elicited data Oster (2010) also justifies the use of the lexical unit as a springboard for the analysis in a large representative corpus ... resultant range of metaphors that seem to lack a coherent hierarchical structure Hence, an adaptation of Grady, Taub & Morgan’s (1996) proposed diagrammatic representations of metaphors will enable ... online concordancing platforms will then be classified diagrammatically into four separate metaphor categories This will be done in accordance to a classification that amalgamates Lakoff and Johnson...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... metaphorical usage patterns and scenarios appear to be dominant across a large representative corpus 171 4.4.9 A Comparative Analysis: The Power of Political Affiliations in the Portrayal of ... indicate that the WPcorpus advocates a more balanced view of BP with a non-sympathetic portrayal taking up a significantly lower 22.8% of the identified metaphors and a sympathetic portrayal of ... INDUSTRY IS A VICTIM THE OIL IS A STEALTHY ENEMY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS A WAR GENERAL 39 POLITICS ISA GAME OF STRATEGY (WAR) THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS A SHREWED POLITICAL TACTICIAN 5 178...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... portrayal of the US Government/ Obama Administration’s role in the disaster It also predominantly adopts a pragmatic approach that conceptualises the notion of BUSINESS as a WAR/ STRATEGY/ GAME OF ... Corporation (a US -based oil and gas exploration and production company), Transocean Ltd (a Swissbased offshore drilling contractor), Mitsui Oil Exploration Company (a Japanbased oil exploration ... metaphorical evaluations can reveal the subtle influences that political affiliation and cultural perspectives have on the target discourse For the metaphorical analysis of the Guardian, a corpus of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... broad advantages in the area of metaphorical analysis: The efficiency of analysis by organising the dominant range of conceptual metaphors into a coherent relational framework The facilitation of ... detailed analysis of the range of analogy -based metaphors across the target semantic domains indicates the presence of a clear unifying ideological thread across all four broadsheets This clearly ... metaphorical evaluative threads involving the use of a series of landmark disasters (ranging from Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 to other significant nuclear, man-made or large-scale natural disasters)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22

... sociocultural and intuitive responses to language However, the main aim of this thesis is the formulation of a repeatable method that strikes an adequate balance between semi-automated and manual analysis ... attacks or Hurricane Katrina as a parallel to the catastrophe A detailed exposition of these metaphorical evaluations can be seen in Chapter However, the dimension of intra-cultural bias is also ... Hence, a longitudinal approach to the study of the metaphors from the same issue across a range of different domains (scientific journals, literary references, organization and management manuals and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22