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This book aims to provide a micro-level, working model of a
methodological approach and practical guidelines for building a
corpus, informed by the work on the CorCenCC project (Corpws
Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes - the National Corpus of Contemporary
Welsh). It focuses specifically on the development of detailed
design frames for corpora across communicative modes (spoken,
written and e-language), and the practical processes involved in
the planning, collection, transcription, collation and
(re)presentation of language data. The book is designed to be of
significant value and relevance to those interested in critically
engaging with corpus methodology. Although Welsh is the language
under discussion, the processes and approaches discussed in the
building of CorCenCC can be applied to a lesser or greater extent
to other language contexts. This book provides a working model, and
an account of how to build a corpus dataset from which step by step
guidelines for creating other linguistic corpora in any language
can be easily extrapolated. It will be of value to students and
scholars of minority languages and corpus linguistics.
This bilingual book provides a detailed overview of the project to
construct a National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh (CorCenCC),
addressing the conceptual and methodological challenges faced when
developing language corpora for minoritised languages. A conceptual
framework is presented for the user-driven design that underpinned
the CorCenCC project, along with a detailed blueprint that can
function as a scaffold for other researchers embarking on projects
of this nature. This book will be of value to those working in
language teaching, learning and assessment, language policy and
planning, translation, corpus linguistics and language technology,
and to anyone with an interest in Welsh and other minoritised
languages. Mae'r llyfr dwyieithog hwn yn rhoi trosolwg manwl o'r
prosiect i greu Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes (CorCenCC), ac
yn mynd i'r afael a'r heriau cysyniadol a methodolegol a wynebir
wrth ddatblygu corpora iaith ar gyfer ieithoedd lleiafrifoledig.
Cyflwynir fframwaith cysyniadol ar gyfer y cynllun wedi'i yrru gan
ddefnyddwyr sy'n greiddiol i brosiect CorCenCC, ynghyd a glasbrint
manwl a all weithredu fel sgaffald i ymchwilwyr eraill sy'n dechrau
ar brosiectau o'r fath. Bydd y llyfr hwn o werth i'r rhai sy'n
gweithio ym meysydd addysgu, dysgu ac asesu ieithoedd, polisi iaith
a chynllunio ieithyddol, cyfieithu, ieithyddiaeth gorpws a
thechnoleg iaith, ac unrhyw un a diddordeb yn y Gymraeg ac
ieithoedd lleiafrifoledig eraill.
The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities
serves as a reference point for key developments related to the
ways in which the digital turn has shaped the study of the English
language and of how the resulting methodological approaches have
permeated other disciplines. It draws on modern linguistics and
discourse analysis for its analytical methods and applies these
approaches to the exploration and theorisation of issues within the
humanities. Divided into three sections, this handbook covers:
sources and corpora; analytical approaches; English language at the
interface with other areas of research in the digital humanities.
In covering these areas, more traditional approaches and
methodologies in the humanities are recast and research challenges
are re-framed through the lens of the digital. The essays in this
volume highlight the opportunities for new questions to be asked
and long-standing questions to be reconsidered when drawing on the
digital in humanities research. This is a ground-breaking
collection of essays offering incisive and essential reading for
anyone with an interest in the English language and digital
humanities.
As the first African American player to be drafted by the NFL and
the first African American to play quarterback, George Taliaferro
was a trailblazer whose athletic prowess earned him accolades
throughout his football career. Instrumental in leading Indiana
University to an undefeated season and undisputed Big Ten
championship in 1945, Taliaferro was a star when many major
universities had no black players on their rosters and others were
stacking black players behind white starters. George Taliaferro
would later rack up impressive statistics while playing
professionally for the New York Yanks, Dallas Texans, Baltimore
Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles. His athletic prowess did little to
prevent him from facing segregation and discrimination on a daily
basis, but his popularity as an athlete also gave him a platform.
Playing professionally gave Taliaferro more opportunity to use
football to fight oppression and to interact with other important
trailblazers, like Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, Muhammad Ali, and
Congressman John Lewis. Race and Football in America tells
Taliaferro's story and profiles the experiences of other athletes
of color who were recognized for their athleticism yet oppressed
for their skin color, as they fought (and continue to fight) for
equal rights and opportunities. Together these stories provide an
insightful portrait of race in America.
As the first African American player to be drafted by the NFL and
the first African American to play quarterback, George Taliaferro
was a trailblazer whose athletic prowess earned him accolades
throughout his football career. Instrumental in leading Indiana
University to an undefeated season and undisputed Big Ten
championship in 1945, Taliaferro was a star when many major
universities had no black players on their rosters and others were
stacking black players behind white starters. George Taliaferro
would later rack up impressive statistics while playing
professionally for the New York Yanks, Dallas Texans, Baltimore
Colts, and Philadelphia Eagles. His athletic prowess did little to
prevent him from facing segregation and discrimination on a daily
basis, but his popularity as an athlete also gave him a platform.
Playing professionally gave Taliaferro more opportunity to use
football to fight oppression and to interact with other important
trailblazers, like Joe Louis, Nat King Cole, Muhammad Ali, and
Congressman John Lewis. Race and Football in America tells
Taliaferro's story and profiles the experiences of other athletes
of color who were recognized for their athleticism yet oppressed
for their skin color, as they fought (and continue to fight) for
equal rights and opportunities. Together these stories provide an
insightful portrait of race in America.
Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating accurate
and objective analyses of patterns of language use. However, spoken
corpora are effectively mono-modal, presenting data in the same
physical medium - text. The reality of a discourse situation is
lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal data sets when
conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one solution. This
book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth, using
backchanneling as the conversational feature to be analysed. It
provides a bottom-up investigation of the issues and challenges
faced at every stage of multimodal corpus construction and
analysis, as well as providing an in-depth linguistic analysis of a
cross section of multimodal corpus data. The collaborative and
co-operative nature of backchannels is highlighted in this book and
an adapted pragmatic-functional linguistic coding matrix for the
characterisation of backchanneling phenomena is presented. Dawn
Knight also looks at possible directions in the construction and
use of multimodal corpus linguistics.
This book proposes the use of multimodal corpora in order to
examine spoken discourse more effectively and with greater
accuracy. Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating
accurate and objective analyses of patterns of language use.
However, spoken corpora are effectively mono-modal, presenting data
in the same physical medium - text. The reality of a discourse
situation is lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal
data sets when conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one
solution. This book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth,
using backchanneling as the conversational feature to be analyzed.
It provides a bottom-up study of multimodal corpora; their physical
construction and a methodology for the analysis of specific
linguistic phenomena across their multiple streams of data. Dawn
Knight also looks at possible directions in the construction and
use of multimodal corpus linguistics. Furthermore, the
collaborative and cooperative nature of backchannels is highlighted
and the book presents an adapted pragmatic-functional linguistic
coding matrix for the characterization of backchanneling phenomena.
Corpus linguistics provides the methodology to extract meaning from
discourse. Taking as its starting point the fact that language is
not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and
think about reality, it focuses on language as a social phenomenon,
and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the
members of a discourse community. Consisting of both spoken and
written language, discourse always has historical, social,
functional, and regional dimensions. Discourse can be monolingual
or multilingual, interconnected by translations. Discourse is where
language and social studies meet. "The Corpus and Discourse" series
consists of two strands. The first, Research in Corpus and
Discourse, features innovative contributions to various aspects of
corpus linguistics and a wide range of applications, from language
technology via the teaching of a second language to a history of
mentalities. The second strand, Studies in Corpus and Discourse, is
comprised of key texts bridging the gap between social studies and
linguistics. Although equally academically rigorous, this strand
will be aimed at a wider audience of academics and postgraduate
students working in both disciplines.
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