Corpora and the changing society : studies in the evolution of English / / edited by Paula Rautionaho, Arja Nurmi, Juhani Klemola

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819865103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 90-272-6131-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 pages)
• Collana: Studies in corpus linguistics ; ; 96
• Disciplina: 420.9
• Soggetti: English language - Grammar - Data processing; English language - Research - Data processing; English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing; English language - Variation - History; English language - Social aspects; Computational linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Corpora and the Changing Society -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Corpora and the changing society -- Part I. Changing society -- The great temptation: What diachronic corpora do and do not reveal about social change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Five pitfalls in the analysis of diachronic corpus data -- 2.1 Corpus frequencies (semasiological frequencies) are not always equivalent to frequencies of entities and events in the real world (onomasiological frequencies) 2.2 Corpus frequencies of polysemous words need to be broken down into sense-specific and construction-specific frequencies -- 2.3 Correlations in large datasets may be spurious -- 2.4 Comparisons of frequency trends in diachronic corpora require adequate statistical treatment -- 2.5 It is not always easy to disentangle social change and linguistic change -- 3. Giving in to temptation: A case study of the English make-causative -- 3.1 The English make-causative construction -- 3.2 Corpus data and descriptive statistics 3.3 Using ; distributional semantics to study the development of the make-causative -- 3.4 Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora -- Other references -- Changes in society and language: Charting poverty -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and pre-processing -- 2.1 The EEBO Collection as sampler corpus -- 2.2 The CLMET3.0 corpus -- 2.3 The pre-processing step of spelling normalization -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Data-based and data-driven approaches -- 3.2 Document classification -- 3.3 Topic modelling -- 3.4 Conceptual maps -- 4. Results and discussion -- 4.1 Dictionary-based approach 4.2 Topic modelling -- 4.3 Conceptual maps -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references -- Finding evidence for a changing society: A collocational study of medical discourse in 1500-1800 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Materials and method -- 4. Results -- 4.1 The Corpus of Early Modern English Medical Texts (1500-1700) -- 4.2 The Corpus of Late Modern English Medical Texts (1700-1800) -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and software -- Other references Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 2.1 Data and tools -- 2.2 Tracking the neosemes -- 3. Case studies -- 3.1 Case study 1: Birther -- 3.2 Case study 2: Normalisation -- 3.3 Case study 3: Cougar -- 3.4 Case study 4: Snowflake -- 3.5 Case study 5: Ghosting -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Challenges -- 4.2 Measures shown to allow or enhance system performance -- 4.3 Sociolinguistic insights gained in the study -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora and tools -- Other references.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book showcases eleven studies dealing with corpora and the changing society. The theme of the volume reflects the fact that changes in society lead to changes in language and vice versa. Focusing on the English language, be it from Old English to the present, or a shorter time span in the immediate past, the contributors in this volume use a variety of corpus methods to address the two patterns of change. The cross-fertilization of cultural studies and corpus linguistics, we hope, is beneficial for both parties, as corpus linguistics offers a vast array of materials and methods to investigate cultural and societal change, while cultural studies provide the theoretical background on which to build our research. The studies included in the present volume illustrate the potential avenues and the merits of combining changing language and changing societies".