Search results for "corpus linguistic"
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The Eco-tourist in Canadian and Italian national Parks
2013
The present paper aims to compare the image of the eco-tourist across languages and cultures, Canadian and Italian. An ad-hoc comparable corpus has been created from the official websites of National Parks which represent a kind of eco-tourist destination. The analysis attempts to trace a profile of Canadian and Italian eco-tourists Drawing upon the Functional Grammar (Halliday 1985) and addresses issues connected with Hall’s model (1983): Are Canadian and Italian ecotourism discourses shaped by their own cultural orientation, or do they attempt to speak in the tongue of the displaced tourist?
Content and form in English business abstracts and research articles: a corpus-based genre approach
2012
Se han escrito muchos trabajos sobre el resumen y el artículo de investigación, especialmente en los últimos veinte años, aunque pocos dedicados al estudio de estos géneros en el ámbito empresarial, y menos en lo que se refiere a su estructura y a la relación entre ambos. El objetivo principal de este estudio es precisamente incrementar la concienciación y conocimiento de la importancia de escribir buenos resúmenes y artículos de investigación en el ámbito de los negocios y cómo el resumen debe persuadir al lector para que lea el artículo. El artículo de investigación como género ha sido objeto de estudio durante mucho tiempo, siendo reconocido su importante papel en la diseminación del con…
Towards a Refined Inventory of Lexical Bundles: an Experiment in the Formulex Method
2016
A number of corpus studies focusing on the description of the use and functions of lexical bundles havebeen conducted recently in order to explore the phraseology of learner language. As with any studiesof lexical bundles, the problem of overlapping or structurally incomplete items poses a particularchallenge. In practice, it is often difficult to align such units with specific discourse functions. The factthat lexical bundles do not constitute neat form-and-meaning mappings results from, among otherreasons, their being grounded in language use rather than language system. In this pilot study weattempt to test a new method called Formulex (Forsyth, 2015a; 2015b) to verify whether an applica…
Mapping Digital Discourses of the Capital Region of Finland : Combining Onomastics, CADS, and GIS
2022
This article discusses the three Finnish city names Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa, and the urban discourses that surround them. The study reveals patterns of socio-spatial differentiation by examining what meanings people attach to these capital region cities and investigating how these meanings are expressed in online discourses. Using the methodological approach of corpus-assisted onomastics (CAO), this study incorporates onomastics, geographical information systems (GIS), and corpus linguistics. This interdisciplinary research also examines how corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) and GIS can be combined to reveal and visualize the contextual information and discursive patterns of topo…
Corpus Linguistics and Intercultural communicative approach: a synergy
2011
The article looks at the relationships between corpora studies and Intercultural communication and suggests a synergy betwen the two disciplines
Touristic promotion in parallel and comparable corpora: differences in persuasion through interpersonality in English and Spanish websites
2013
Esta investigación is parte del proyecto COMETVAL que analiza géneros web de viajes y turismo a través del discurso y del léxico en inglés, español, francés y árabe. Es un primer intento de analizar textos comparables (traducidos al inglés y al español) en webs de hoteles. Hipótesis: si el patrón interpersonal de la lengua meta no se tiene en cuenta en la traducción, se puede dañar ésta a nivel funcional y genérico. Implicaciones para la industria de los viajes y el turismo: la comunicación con los clientes puede quedar cortada o ser ineficaz si los sitios web no se diseñan de acuerdo a las convenciones del metadiscurso interpersonal. This research is part of the COMETVAL project that aims …
Framing Issues in The Specialised Discourse Of Diplomacy: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach
2017
Relevant international issues, such as terrorism, immigration, climate change, human security, cybersecurity and so on, imply the construction of complex ideological and axiological discursive positions, which stem from a web of unavoidably superimposed emotional and moral evaluations, often interwoven with logical observations (Spinzi 2016). All transactions whether promoting ideologies and values or selling products are a way of profiting from the general representation of a nation, and strategic communication contributes to this by increasing appreciation and influencing people’s behaviour. Embracing the perspective that transformations in social life are led by discourse (Fairclough, 20…
No me banco la gente así. Un estudio comparativo del uso de palabras coloquiales y malsonantes en conversaciones informales en tres comunidades de ha…
2019
The present article aims at describing and comparing the use of slang words and swearwords in teenage talk from three different Spanish speaking communities. The analysis builds on spontaneous teenage conversations from the corpus of teenage language Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA). This corpus contains informal conversations from Madrid, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile; and for this study one conversation from each city has been selected. The aim of the analysis is twofold, in the first place to describe and compare the slang words and swearwords registered in the three conversations, and secondly to study the pragmatic functions of these words. The analysis of the slang word…
Stance bundles in English-to-Polish Translation: a Corpus-Informed Study
2018
In this paper, we make an attempt to improve the textual fit of English-to-Polish translation of a peculiar type of multi-word units known in corpus linguistic literature as lexical bundles (Biber et al. 1999). Inspired by a study conducted by Grabar and Lefer (2015), we used the English-Polish parallel corpus Paralela (Pęzik 2016) and the National Corpus of Polish (NKJP) to extract and explore the use — in terms of frequency distributions — of the Polish equivalents of selected English lexical bundles expressing attitudinal and epistemic stance. More precisely, we used the NKJP corpus to check whether the Polish equivalents are typical of contemporary Polish as found in native texts. The r…
Zu den Ursachen lexikalischer Transferenz vor dem Hintergrund des deutsch-polnischen Sprachkontaktes in Oberschlesien
2021
Multilingualism and language contact were confirmed as historical phenomena already in ancient times. However, it did not find its way into scientific research until the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Since then, a comprehensive terminology has been developed in order to investigate and describe the effects of language contact. A common phenomenon in this field is lexical transfer, which bilingual people often use to bridge their lack of competence in the second language. However, the cause of the transfer of lexemes from one language to the other can also occur from the lesser to the better mastered language in the case of asymmetrical bilingualism, which therefor…