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Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis Paul Baker

Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis By Paul Baker

Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis by Paul Baker


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Examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. This book evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora.

Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis Summary

Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis by Paul Baker

This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora. Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.

About Paul Baker

Paul Baker is Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, University of Lancaster.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Introduction; Introduction / Corpus Linguistics / Discourse / The Shift to Post Structuralism / Advantages of the corpus-based approach to discourse analysis / Reducing Researcher Bias / The incremental effect of Discourse / Resistant and changing discourses / Triangulation / Some concerns / Structure of the book / Notes; Chapter 2 - Corpus Building. Introduction / Some types of corpora / Capturing data / Scanning and keying in / Spoken Texts / Online texts / Permissions / Annotation / Using a Reference Corpus / Conclusions / Notes; Chapter 3 - Frequency and Dispersion; Introduction / Join the Club / Frequency Counts / Considering Clusters / Dispersion Plots / Comparing demographic frequencies/Conclusions/Notes; Chapter 4 - Concordances; Introduction / Investigating discourses of refugees / Sorting concordances / Analysing the remainder / Semantic preference and discourse parody / Points of concerns / Step by step guide to concordance analysis / Notes; Chapter 5 - Collates; Introduction / Deriving Collocates / Identifying discourses from collocates / Resistant discourses / Collocational networks / Step by step guide to collocational analysis / Notes; Chapter 6 - Beyond Collocation; Introduction / Nominalization / Searching with grammatical tags / Collocations of grammatical forms / Modality / Attribution / Metaphor / Further directions / Notes; Chapter 7 - Keyness; Frequency revisited / Introducing Keyness / Analysis of keywords / Using a reference corpus / Key clusters / Key categories / Possible uses of key words / Conclusion / Notes; Chapter 8 - Conclusion; Corpus building / Corpus analysis / Notes.

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GOR005290686
9780826477255
0826477259
Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis by Paul Baker
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2006-04-23
198
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