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4 - Analyzing a Corpus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2023

Charles F. Meyer
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
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This chapter describes the process of analyzing a corpus. It discusses the general notions of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies within the context of various types of corpus analyses, including Biber’s work on multi-dimensional analysis as well as a more qualitative analysis of Donald Trump’s style of speaking termed Trump Speak. These analyses are used to illustrate the various stages of doing research in general, and corpus-based research specifically. For instance, the analysis of Trump Speak is linked to a discussion of “how to frame a research question"; “how to select relevant corpora that can be analyzed to pursue the research question"; “how to ‘extract’ grammatical and lexical information from a corpus,” using such tools as concordancing programs; and, finally, how to “integrate relevant linguistic theories into the analysis of corpus results,” so that the research does more than simply list, for instance, frequency counts. There is also a discussion of “mixed methods”: how to introduce quantitative and qualitative research methods into a corpus analysis, followed by an example corpus analysis employing descriptive statistics such as the chi square statistic, and additionally, a description of multi-dimensional analysis in the work of Douglas Biber.

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English Corpus Linguistics
An Introduction
, pp. 118 - 161
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Analyzing a Corpus
  • Charles F. Meyer, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • Book: English Corpus Linguistics
  • Online publication: 15 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107298026.005
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  • Analyzing a Corpus
  • Charles F. Meyer, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • Book: English Corpus Linguistics
  • Online publication: 15 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107298026.005
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  • Analyzing a Corpus
  • Charles F. Meyer, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • Book: English Corpus Linguistics
  • Online publication: 15 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107298026.005
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