scholarly journals A case for corpus stylistics

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Mahlberg ◽  
Dan McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
Semantic Domains

In this article we investigate keywords and key semantic domains in Fleming’s Casino Royale. We identify groups of keywords that describe elements of the fictional world such as characters and settings as well as thematic signals. The keyword groups fall into two broad categories that are characterized as text-centred and reader-centred, with the latter providing particular clues for interpretation. We also compare the manually identified keyword groups with key semantic domains that are based on automatic semantic analysis. The comparison shows, for instance, how words that do not seem to fit a semantic domain can be seen as reader-centred keywords fulfilling specific textual functions. By linking our analysis to arguments in literary criticism, we show how quantitative and qualitative approaches can usefully complement one another.

Sukacita Di dalam Surat Filipi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Semantic Domains

Buku Sukacita di dalam Surat Filipi adalah sebuah penelitian tentangkonsep sukacita di dalam surat Filipi dengan menggunakanpendekatan integrasi antara analisis wacana (discourse analysis)dan rentangan semantis (semantic domain). Buku ini juga adalah revisi daribuku sebelumnya yang berjudul Konsep Sukacita di dalam Surat Filipi yangpernah terbit pada tahun 2012. Penulis menyempurnakan konsep sukacitaini dengan penambahan pendekatan yakni analisis wacana (makro)sebelum melakukan analisis rentangan semantis (mikro).Penelitian William G. Morrice tentang sukacita dalam bukunya Joy inthe New Testament(1984), karya tulis dari Johanes P. Louw dalam bukunyayang berjudul the Semantics of New Testament Greek (1982), dan karyamonumental dari Louw dan Eugene A. Nida dalam leksikon yang berjudulGreek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (1988)telah menginspirasi dan membantu penulis dalam menyelesaikan buku ini.Bagi penulis, buku ini adalah bentuk nyata pertolongan AllahTritunggal yang Mahakudus. Pujian dan kemuliaan hanya ditujukankepada-Nya. Buku ini telah melalui proses penulisan yang panjangsehingga tidak lupa penulis mengucap terima kasih kepada para mentordan inspirator seperti Pdt. Ir. Armand Barus, Ph.D, Pdt. Dr. MarulakPasaribu, D.Min., dan Pdt. Dr. Hardi Budiyana.Buku ini didedikasikan kepada para pembaca yang serius mencaripikiran Allah yang tertulis di dalam Alkitab. Semoga buku ini bisabermanfaat bagi gereja-gereja dan kalangan akademisi untuk menambahkekayaan spiritual yang begitu banyak di dalam Alkitab. Tidak lupa jugabuku ini adalah produk manusia yang tentu tidak luput dari kesalahansehingga penulis mengharapkan masukan-masukan dari para pembacauntuk kesempurnaan buku ini.

Two Indices Are Better than One: Building on Robbins, Nolan, and Chen (2017)

Field Methods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
David Bimler ◽  
Mari Uusküla
Keyword(s):  
Body Parts ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Two Indices ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Semantic Domains

When informants from a given culture are asked to list items from a specified semantic domain, their lists provide two indicators of each term’s prominence or salience: its frequency of appearance across lists and its mean position within the lists that include it. Smith et al. (1995), Sutrop (2001), and most recently Robbins et al. (2017) have defined salience measures that combine these two sources of information. We argue that although frequency and mean position are correlated, the association between them is not perfect and not linear. Plotting them as separate axes of a scatterplot can be informative and complementary to combining them in a single salience measure. We illustrate this with scatterplots for three semantic domains: color terms, animal names, and body parts.

scholarly journals Corpus-Based Syntactic-Semantic Graph Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 957-996
Author(s):  
Benedikt Perak ◽  
Tajana Ban Kirigin
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Graph Analysis ◽  
Sense Disambiguation ◽  
Conceptual Network ◽  
Community Detection Algorithm ◽  
Semantic Domains

This research exemplifies the corpus-based graph approach to the syntactic-semantic analysis of a concept feeling using the Construction Grammar Conceptual network methodology. by constructing a lexical network from grammatically tagged collocations of the english and the Croatian web corpora, the structure of the semantic domains is revealed as a set of sub-graphs derived from the source lexeme’s friend-of-a-friend graph. the subgraph structures, calculated with the community detection algorithm, are interpreted as the semantic domains associated with the source lexeme’s conceptual matrix. lexical structures are analyzed using a centrality algorithm that determines the overall rank of the salience and semantic relatedness to the source concept feeling. this empirical approach can be used for developing nlP methods and tasks, such as computing semantic similarity, sense disambiguation, sense structuring, as well as for comparative corpus and cross-cultural studies. ConGraCnet has a web application on the page <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://emocnet.uniri.hr/congracnet">http://emocnet.uniri.hr/congracnet</a>.

scholarly journals Constitution of ethnozoological semantic domains: meaning and inclusiveness of the lexeme "insect" for the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dídac Santos-Fita ◽  
Eraldo M Costa-Neto ◽  
Alexandre Schiavetti
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Biodiversity Inventories ◽  
Specific Definition ◽  
Semantic Domains

This article deals with the sociocultural construction of the 'insect' and 'animal' domains by the inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca (municipality of Santa Terezinha, Bahia State, Brazil). The fieldwork was performed from September 2006 to July 2007. The data was obtained by means of open-ended interviews of 74 individuals of both genders whose ages ranged from 4 to 89 years old. The results show that the interviewees were unable to say in an accurate and secure way a specific definition for each domain. Depending on how a given animal is culturally interpreted, it could belong to the semantic domain 'animal' or 'insect', being representative of one or another group. However, in practice, such a distinction between these two semantic domains appears as something tenuous and ambiguous. Researchers who carry out biodiversity inventories should pay attention to the ethnocategory 'insect' during their studies, especially if these involve the participation of traditional community representatives

scholarly journals Recent change in the productivity and schematicity of the way-construction: A distributional semantic analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florent Perek
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Similarity ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Occurrence Frequency ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper presents a corpus-based study of recent change in the Englishway-construction, drawing on data from the 1830s to the 2000s. Semantic change in the distribution of the construction is characterized by means of a distributional semantic model, which captures semantic similarity between verbs through their co-occurrence frequency with other words in the corpus. By plotting and comparing the semantic domain of the three senses of the construction at different points in time, it is found that they all have gained in semantic diversity. These findings are interpreted in terms of increases in schematicity, either of the verb slot or the motion component contributed by the construction.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Beatrix Busse
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Presentation Modes ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

In her introductory chapter, the author specifies the aims of the study and its theoretical background. Basing her approach on Leech and Short’s (1981) and Semino and Short’s (2004) categories of discourse presentation, she further develops their model to suit 19th-century fiction and to enable corpus annotation for quantitative next to qualitative investigation, in order to allow for systematically investigating the previously impressionistic observations about discourse presentation modes in historical English on a sound empirical basis. She further outlines how her corpus-stylistic approach will be enriched by contextualization to address the portrayal of subjectivity as well as diachronic pragmatic differences between 19th- and 20th-century narrative fiction. Defining the key issues in her approach of New Historical Stylistics, the study is to provide new insights into the nature of 19th-century narrative fiction that are useful for corpus stylistics, text-linguistics, historical linguistics and pragmatics, as well as narratology and literary criticism.

Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Eman Adil Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Thomas Harris ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
Semantic Domains

This paper aims to employ one of the corpus stylistic methods to analyze Thomas Harris's novel, The Silence of the Lambs. Recently, technology has invaded our lives. To put it differently, researchers depend highly on computers to access and gain information about certain data. Thus, it is crucial to keep up with the up-to-date developments concerning computational methodologies and toolkits. Corpus stylistics helps to find certain features that cannot be understood without using the techniques of computers. In order to achieve this goal, a quantitative and qualitative methodology is applied. Corpus stylistics helps to analyze lengthy texts more efficiently. This is not to say that it substitutes the manual stylistic one. In fact, both the corpus and manual stylistic analyses work hand in glove, and they complement each other. The tool that is used to conduct the analysis by examining keywords and key semantic domains is Wmatrix3. In addition to the previous tool, AntConc is a complementary tool to investigate n- grams in the novel and to point out their significance to the overall interpretation.

Naturalistic Use of Aspect Morphology in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Kristina BOWDRIE ◽  
Rachael Frush HOLT ◽  
Andrew BLANK ◽  
Laura WAGNER
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Signal ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Lexical Aspect ◽  
Semantic Domain ◽  
Play Session ◽  
Grammatical Morphology ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Semantic Domains

Abstract Grammatical morphology often links small acoustic forms to abstract semantic domains. Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children have reduced access to the acoustic signal and frequently have delayed acquisition of grammatical morphology (e.g., Tomblin, Harrison, Ambrose, Walker, Oleson & Moeller, 2015). This study investigated the naturalistic use of aspectual morphology in DHH children to determine if they organize this semantic domain as normal hearing (NH) children have been found to do. Thirty DHH children (M = 6;8) and 29 NH children (M = 5;11) acquiring English participated in a free-play session and their tokens of perfective (simple past) and imperfective (-ing) morphology were coded for the lexical aspect of the predicate they marked. Both groups showed established prototype effects, favoring perfective + telic and imperfective + atelic pairings over perfective + atelic and perfective + atelic ones. Thus, despite reduced access to the acoustic signal, this DHH group was unimpaired for aspectual organization.

scholarly journals Poetic Language and the Computer: A Corpus Stylistic Study of The Waste Land

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
Eman Adil Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Corpus Stylistics ◽  
Semantic Domains ◽  
Corpus Tools

This study aims at proposing a methodology in analyzing one of the significant poems of the twentieth century, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. By means of applying the tools of the computer, namely; Wmatrix (Rayson 2003, 2008) and WebCorp Live (Birmingham City University). This paper seeks to examine whether corpus stylistics can be helpful in analyzing a single poem 2. Verifying the importance of corpus tools in interpreting poetic language. Moreover, this study attempts to examine key semantic domains, keywords, and concordances in the poem. This study proves that corpus tools are crucial in matters of saving time, reaching to accurate results and achieving much more objectivity than applying only the qualitative method in analyzing the data. Thus, it is recommended to integrate both methodologies (qualitative and quantitative) in the study of poetic language.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF LITERARY TERMS BY LITERARY TYPES IN “THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF LITERATURE TERMS”

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-138
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Oxford Dictionary ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
The Given ◽  
Theory Of Literature

The scientific research shows that literary terms in the Germanic languages were not studied uniformly. Literary terms, which were the subject of our research, have hardly been studied in the Slavic, Roman and Germanic languages. Objectives and methods: Therefore, it is relevant to study the terms of philosophy, culture and spirituality, ethics, aesthetics, religion, linguistics and especially literary criticism. The degree of study and significance of literary terms are carried out in the given article. The article also gives information about the dictionary of Chris Baldick –The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms and the significant aspects of literary terms. Terms belonged to the theory of literature, its history, process and dramatic works are discussed. Epic, lyric and dramatic terms of literary genres were analyzed by thematic groups and the author's opinion on the interpretation of terms is expressed and explained in the article. Results: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of literary terms by Chris Baldick contains 1060 literary terms. These terms were divided into semantic groups according to literary types. Literary terms were grouped into epic, lyrical, and dramatic literary types. Literary terms in the dictionary were originally classified and studied in three main groups of literary type: prose, poetry, and drama. Conclusions: In the course of the research, it was noticed that there are some terms which can be included into both lyric and epic, or epic and dramatic, or to all three literary types. In addition, despite the existence of literary terms in the dictionary, there were also terms that did not belong to any literary type or genre and expressed general concepts in the literature that were also studied in a separate group. In the dictionary, we have analyzed the semantic groups included 142 epic, 329 lyrical, 110 dramatic, 330 terms belong to all three literary types and 149 terms that are not included in any literary type, which were further studied in small groups during our study.

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