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How is Corpus Linguistics Related to Discourse Analysis?

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Corpora and Language Education

Part of the book series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics ((RPAL))

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This chapter will discuss:

  • Different conceptual orientations towards corpus linguistics

  • Differences between corpus analysis and discourse analysis

  • Different approaches to analysing written, spoken and multimodal corpora

  • Challenges posed in analysing ‘new technologies’ corpora

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Further reading

  • Adolphs, S. (2008) Corpus and Context. Investigating Pragmatic Functions in Spoken Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This monograph examines various speech acts in the CANCODE corpus.

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  • Aijmer, K. and Stenström, A.-B. (eds) (2004) Discourse Patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. This edited collection contains a range of corpus-based studies on different aspects of discourse: cohesion and coherence, meta-discourse and discourse markers, and text and information structure.

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  • Baker, P. (2006) Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum. This book provides a very reader-friendly introduction on how keywords, frequency and dispersion and collocational networks can inform discourse analysis, especially those studies of a CDA nature.

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  • Grundmann, R. and Khrishnamurthy, R. (2010) The discourse of climate change: a corpus-based approach. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 4 (2): 125–46. This article analyses data on climate change, drawn from US, UK, French and German sources in Nexis, a database of global news sources.

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  • Paltridge, B. (2006) Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum. Chapter 7 in this volume has a very useful overview of corpus approaches to discourse analysis.

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  1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Lynne Flowerdew

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Flowerdew, L. (2012). How is Corpus Linguistics Related to Discourse Analysis?. In: Corpora and Language Education. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355569_4

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