Search results for "Corpus based"
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Forms and functions of non-renditions in community interpreting: a corpus-based study
2021
This paper explores flexible language strategies in interpreter-mediated interaction from a corpus-based, quantitative perspective, drawing on data from the Community Interpreting Database (ComInDa...
From engl-isc to whatever-ish: a corpus-based investigation of -ish derivation in the history of English
2020
Drawing on a wide array of historical and contemporary corpora, this article provides one of the first empirical analyses of the intricately related functional changes that -ish underwent in the course of English language history. By investigating the distribution of -ish formations, the analysis sheds light on the productivity of the suffix, which does not only become evident in the numerous hapax legomena, but also in the trajectory of change itself in which -ish occurs with ever new base categories and new functions. Moreover, the article revisits theoretical claims made in the literature about the diachronic development and synchronic properties of -ish and reassesses them in the light …
“Apparently, women don't know how to operate doors": A corpus-based analysis of women stereotypes in the TV series <i>3rd Rock from the Sun<…
2017
This paper explores how women stereotypes are discursively evaluated in the TV sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun by paying attention to the societal, cultural and ideological values they convey. Following recent trends for the study of television series (Bednarek, 2010), the analysis is both qualitative and quantitative, adopting a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis approach (Baker, 2006; Partington, 2004). The contextualised analysis of words that refer to women confirms that the sitcom writers of 3rd Rock from the Sun purposefully resort to stereotyping as a verbal strategy to create humour while conveying negative attitudes towards women.
Violence in the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales: a corpus-based approach
2010
The purpose of this article is to carry out a corpus-based study on the presence of violence in a selection of eight tales by the Grimm's Brothers by looking at the terms which can be said to relate to the semantic field of violence. More specifically, this study will analyse a selection of eight tales in which the frequency of the words cut, dead and blood will be studied in detail. These words have been chosen due to their possible connection to violence after carrying out a quantitative analysis of the frequency of the whole main corpus. My initial hypothesis is that the corpus-based study of those eight tales would support my intuition regarding the high percentage of violence in the Br…
Testimonio, Subjetividad y lenguajes femeninos en contextos de violencia política en América Latina
2015
Resumen: En el marco del proyecto de investigacion Narrativa Testimonial, Politicas de la Memoria y Subjetividad en America Latina , el presente articulo lleva a cabo algunas reflexiones sobre un corpus documental basado en textos escritos por mujeres que hicieron parte de grupos de izquierda que optaron por la via armada entre los anos 60 y 90 del siglo pasado. Con ello se busca iluminar los modos como la violencia politica y el terrorismo de estado modularon la cultura politica en America Latina e incidieron en la configuracion de las subjetividades de quienes fueron actores directos o indirectos de dichos acontecimientos, al tiempo que se explora en dichas narrativas algunas de sus impli…
Vann, Robert E. (2009): Materials for the sociolinguistic description and corpus-based study of Spanish in Barcelona. Toward a documentation of collo…
2009
Review of Oakes & Ji (2012): Quantitative Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies
2014
Book review: Angela Zottola, Transgender Identities in the Press. A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
2021
Assessing EPAP lexical features: A corpus-based study
2018
The features of specialised languages have been extensively described by scholars in the literature. Amongst them, Enrique Alcaraz’s work stands out as an exhaustive and comprehensive description of EPAP at all linguistic levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. This research aims to provide a bottom-up assessment of his description on a lexical level through the implementation of corpus-based techniques on two specialised corpora of legal and telecommunications English. The results support Alcaraz’s portrayal as regards term usage, the relevance of sub-technical vocabulary, the peculiarities of Latin single and multi word terms in legal English and the significant presence and u…
Translator?s creativity in cultural elements transposition : a corpus-based study
2018
En este artículo, se presenta un estudio basado en corpus con el objetivo de determinar el nivel de creatividad (frente al de convencionalismo) en la traducción de los elementos culturales. Considerando la creatividad como el uso de aquellas estrategias que manipulan el material léxico del texto de origen, se utilizó la metodología de la lingüística de corpus para examinar un corpus trilingüe (español, inglés, italiano) formado por 50 novelas (25 obras originales y las 25 traducciones correspondientes). La metodología adoptada se estructura en tres fases: (a) identificación de los elementos culturales, (b) determinación de las estrategias de traducción y (c) distinción entre técnicas creati…