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Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis: Bloomsbury Discourse

Autor Paul Baker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2023

Observăm că această a doua ediție a lucrării Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis aduce o actualizare metodologică necesară pentru mediul academic contemporan, integrând instrumente software de ultimă generație precum Sketch Engine și #LancsBox. Față de ediția anterioară, Paul Baker introduce un capitol dedicat managementului proiectelor de cercetare și extinde analiza tehnică prin studii de caz complexe, incluzând analiza rețelelor de colocare în texte de propagandă și pe rețelele sociale.

Recomandăm parcurgerea structurii progresive a cărții, care ghidează cititorul de la etapele inițiale de construire și adnotare a unui corpus (Capitolul 3), până la concepte avansate de 'keyness' și analiză diacronică prin compararea mai multor seturi de date. Această abordare practică, susținută de exerciții și întrebări de discuție, transformă volumul dintr-un manual teoretic într-un ghid de lucru aplicat. În contextul operei sale, lucrarea de față consolidează expertiza autorului începută cu Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics, dar se distanțează de scrierile sale mai narative, precum Fabulosa! sau Outrageous!, păstrând totuși un stil accesibil.

Analiza propusă de Baker completează perspectiva oferită de Analysing Representation de Frazer Heritage. În timp ce Heritage se concentrează pe modul în care entitățile sunt reprezentate ideologic, Baker oferă instrumentarul tehnic vast — de la frecvență și dispersie la derivarea 'lockwords' — necesar pentru a susține astfel de interpretări prin date cantitative riguroase. Este o resursă care echilibrează fin rigoarea lingvisticii de corpus cu nuanțele analizei de discurs.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350083752
ISBN-10: 1350083755
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 14 bw illus.
Dimensiuni: 158 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Discourse

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților și cercetătorilor care doresc să treacă de la analiza calitativă la metode cantitative riguroase. Veți câștiga o stăpânire practică a software-ului de specialitate și veți învăța cum să formulați întrebări de cercetare valide folosind baze de date lingvistice mari. Este ghidul esențial pentru a înțelege cum frecvența și colocarea cuvintelor dezvăluie tipare sociale ascunse.


Despre autor

Paul Baker este profesor de limba engleză la Lancaster University, Marea Britanie, fiind o autoritate mondială în domeniul lingvisticii de corpus și al sociolingvisticii. Este recunoscut pentru cercetările sale asupra limbajului Polari, un cod secret utilizat de comunitățile gay în secolul XX, temă explorată în lucrări premiate precum Fabulosa!. Expertiza sa acoperă intersecția dintre limbaj, gen și identitate sexuală, Baker fiind un pionier în utilizarea metodelor computaționale pentru a analiza discursul social și ideologic în diverse contexte, de la media la politică.


Descriere

How can you carry out discourse analysis using corpus linguistics? What research questions should I ask? Which methods should you use and when? What is a collocational network or a key cluster?

Introducing the major techniques, methods and tools for corpus-assisted analysis of discourse, this book answers these questions and more, showing readers how to best use corpora in their analyses of discourse. Using carefully tailored case studies, each chapter is devoted to a central technique, including frequency, concordancing and keywords, going step by step through the process of applying different analytical procedures. Introducing a wide range of different corpora, from holiday brochures to political debates, the book considers the key debates and latest advances in the field.

Fully revised and updated, this new edition includes:
- A new chapter on how to conduct research projects in corpus-based discourse analysis
- Completely rewritten chapters on collocation and advanced techniques, using a corpus of jihadist propaganda texts and covering topics such as social media and visual analysis
- Coverage of major tools, including CQPweb, AntConc, Sketch Engine and #LancsBox
- Discussion of newer techniques including the derivation of lockwords and the comparison of multiple data sets for diachronic analysis

With exercises, discussion questions and suggested further readings in each chapter, this book is an excellent guide to using corpus linguistics techniques to carry out discourse analysis.

Cuprins

1. Introduction
2. The First Stages
3. Corpus Building and Annotation
4. Frequency and Dispersion
5. Concordances
6. Collocates
7. Keyness
8. Beyond Collocation
9. What Comes Next?
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

Baker (Lancaster University, UK) looks at how corpora (computerized collections of naturally occurring language samples) can be used for discourse analysis. The book has four particular strengths. First, the author explains corpus methodologies thoroughly, including frequency and dispersion, concordances, collocates, and keyness. Second, the grounds his explanations in concrete analyses of discourse used in tourism brochures, fox-hunting debates, and news articles on refugees (among other texts), thereby offering exemplars of the methodology; included are several tabular examples of analysis. And fourth, he explores the strengths and limitations of corpus analysis, explaining the need for self-reflection with respect to methodological decision-making. An excellent guide to the scope and method of corpus linguistics as applied to discourse analysis, this book on research methods will be valuable to those in linguistics, rhetoric and communication, literary theory and other humanities fields.
Is a necessity for any researcher, practitioner or student interested in the interplay of content, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is a practical, hands-on guide that articulately explores the complex workings of corpora building and analysis. It is a valuable contribution for both the novice exploring the field and the more experienced scholar aiming to refresh their understanding of this ever-growing, ever-evolving discipline.
Corpus methodologies have a huge potential for use in discourse studies, and Paul Baker has written a superb introduction that combines common sense and academic expertise. As a practical 'how-to' advisor he provides an accessible explanation of the key technical and interpretative issues. As an advocate of innovation, he is sensitive to the priorities and the research paradigms of both the discourse analyst and the corpus linguist. This is a splendid book that will inspire a new generation of research.
We are given examples of research which demonstrate the various techniques and these can be intriguing...Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis should indeed build bridges, for those who are not already using them, but it will also be useful to anyone interested in language as it is used in texts...the generative nature of the techniques should be stimulating for all those who monitor language use...
If you want to know what corpus linguistics can offer to sociolinguists interested in the relationship between language and gender, this book is the answer. I found it hard to put down. Written in a wonderfully accessible style, it provides detailed examples of the challenging questions, messy data, and satisfying, though often approximate, answers that corpus linguistics can provide. It confronts researchers with the real nitty-gritty of the challenges and rewards of each step of a corpus linguistics project. Researchers and students will both find it invaluable.
One of the best introductory texts on corpus assisted discourse analysis currently available. Baker expertly embeds concrete examples of critical data analysis within wider discussion of methodological choices, using a range of corpus tools. Readers will find the step by step guides particularly useful, along with Baker's inimitable clear and engaging writing style.
This new edition combines clear explanations of key corpus concepts with significantly updated chapters. Highlighted throughout are the technological advancements in corpus tools as they are applied to contemporary research questions. Once again, Baker's extensive expertise provides an invaluable resource for integrating discourse and corpus methodologies in linguistic research.