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Evaluative meaning
2012
Linguistic evaluation has become an important area of inquiry in recent years. In the traditions of, e.g., lexical semantics, phraseology, corpus linguistics, and interactional linguistics, a large inventory of linguistic means have been identified by which speakers can express evaluative meanings. However, the class of German sentential idioms, e.g., Das kannst du dir in die Haare schmieren (lit. ‘You can smear that into your hair’, fig. ‘That is useless’), has not gained much attention. This paper explores how the evaluative meaning of German sentential idioms is constructed syntactically, semantically, and pragmatically. In particular, it is investigated how the meaning of these idioms i…
Las formas de tratamiento en el corpus PRESEEA-Valencia. Un estudio sociolingüístico
2018
En este artículo se hace un estudio de las formas de tratamiento utilizadas, tanto por el entrevistador como por los informantes, en el corpus PRESEEA-Valencia. Dicho estudio incluye un análisis cuantitativo, en el que se da cuenta de los resultados atendiendo al nivel sociocultural, el sexo, la edad y la lengua habitual de los informantes, y un estudio cualitativo, centrado en las motivaciones que llevan al interlocutor a utilizar una u otra forma de tratamiento. This work is a study of the form of address used both by the interviewer and the informants in the corpus belonging to PRESEEA - Valencia. This study includes a quantitative analysis, which shows the results according to the socio…
Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners' metaphorical production and awareness
2017
La metàfora és un element central de la comunicació i la comprensió humana. Abunda en el llenguatge quotidià i també en el d'especialització, no sent una excepció el discurs legal. Aquest fet és rellevant ja que les metàfores ens permeten emmarcar la realitat des de diverses perspectives que condicionen la nostra percepció del món. Amb l'objectiu d'explorar l'ús que els estudiants de Dret amb anglès com a llengua addicional (EAL) fan de les metàfores i de determinar si són conscients de les seues connotacions, es va compilar i va analitzar qualitativament un corpus d'aprenents. Els resultats han demostrat que els aprenents igual que els parlants natius utilitzen metàfores conceptuals tals c…
Les eines computacionals i el disseny de corpus orals: un diàleg vigent
2020
The design of an oral corpus and the processes of registering, codifying and treating the materials in order to build a useful resource for linguistic analysis prompt numerous decisions regarding theory and methodology. This article is focused on those stages of corpus construction which are more clearly conditioned by the computational processing necessary to make it functional. In order to adequately match the initial expectations and the real possibilities of using the tool, each feature we intend to codify must be measured against the workload and the means required to do so. Therefore, it is essential to take into account the available possibilities of processing and exploitation as th…
Imperatives in voice-overs in British TV commercials: ‘Get this, buy that, taste the other’
2014
Television commercials are often thought of as bothersome multimedia artefacts that by their very existence spoil our viewing pleasure at regular intervals. Not only that, but they seem to have the habit of ordering us around. This aspect of TV ads has often been commented on by experts and laypersons alike. Therefore, we decided to tackle this issue and look at the prototypical expression of directives, that is, imperatives in voice-overs in television commercials. To this end we have carried out an empirical analysis of imperatives in voice-overs in the MATVA corpus (Multimodal Analysis of TV Ads) which contains transcriptions of nearly 800 voice-overs in British TV ads recorded on six d…
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
Que ja·s parla different que·s parlava deu anys ha esta part. El català modern : la baula imprescindible
2019
En el present article fem un repàs de les causes que han provocat que els textos catalans dels segles XVII i XVIII i del primer terç del XIX hagin estat tradicionalment objecte de poca estima, raó per la qual l’estudi lingüístic del català modern ha rebut menys atenció que el d’altres períodes. Malgrat aquesta situació, assenyalem algunes innovacions de la llengua d’aquest període que converteixen el seu estudi en molt atractiu i, alhora, molt necessari per a tenir un coneixement complet de les fases evolutives del català des dels orígens fins als nostres dies i, especialment, per a comprendre les innovacions que van convertir la llengua medieval en una llengua moderna força propera a la qu…
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…
Getting rid of the Chi-square and Log-likelihood tests for analysing vocabulary differences between corpora
2018
Log-likelihood and Chi-square tests are probably the most popular statistical tests used in corpus linguistics, especially when the research is aiming to describe the lexical variations between corpora. However, because this specific use of the Chi-square test is not valid, it produces far too many significant results. This paper explains the source of the problem (i.e., the non-independence of the observations), the reasons for which the usual solutions are not acceptable and which kinds of statistical test should be used instead. A corpus analysis conducted on the lexical differences between American and British English is then reported, in order to demonstrate the problem and to confirm …