The linguistic challenge of the transition to secondary school : a corpus study of academic language / / Alice Deignan, Duygu Candarli and Florence Oxley |
Autore | Deignan Alice |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 pages) |
Disciplina | 407.1 |
Collana | Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Academic language
Corpora (Linguistics) Students, Transfer of |
ISBN |
1-00-308189-4
1-000-81350-9 1-003-08189-4 1-000-81366-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of extracts -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Schools, the transition, students and teachers -- Introduction -- The transition and the context of this research -- Issues at transition -- Social, psychological and emotional issues -- Academic issues -- Language and the transition -- The voices of students in our project schools -- Aims of this book -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Academic language and the school transition -- Introduction -- Perspectives on the language of school -- Bernstein's language codes and the language of school -- The Systemic-Functional Linguistics approach -- BICS and CALP -- CALS -- Academic language and function -- Academic language and social prestige -- Function: Academic language to facilitate and express academic thought -- Register and genre -- Features of academic language -- Overview -- Disciplinary language -- The vocabulary of school -- Polysemy and homonymy -- Tiers -- Grammar and discourse -- Specific issues at the transition -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Corpus data and methods -- Introduction -- Constructing our corpus -- Characteristics of our partner schools -- Corpus design and representativeness -- The written corpus -- Representativeness and data gathering -- Composition of the written corpus -- Sub-registers -- The spoken corpus -- Corpus analytical methods used -- Quantitative data analysis procedures -- Multi-dimensional analysis -- Dimension 1: Involved versus informational discourse -- Dimension 2: Narrative versus non-narrative discourse -- Dimension 3: Situation-dependent versus elaborated reference -- Dimension 4: Overt expression of persuasion -- Dimension 5: Abstract versus non-abstract information -- Mixed and qualitative data analysis.
Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Written school language registers at the transition -- Introduction -- The corpus -- Analytical steps -- Statistical analysis -- Multi-dimensional analysis of school language registers -- Dimension 1: Involved versus informational discourse -- Dimension 2: Narrative versus non-narrative discourse -- Dimension 3: Explicit versus situation-dependent discourse -- Dimension 4: Overt expression of persuasion -- Dimension 5: Impersonal versus non-impersonal style -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 The language of English at the transition -- Introduction -- The KS2 and KS3 curricula -- Assessment -- Reading in Years 5-8 -- Reading for pleasure -- Making inferences -- Understanding genre, purpose and audience -- criticality -- Writing in Years 5-8 -- Understanding genre, purpose and audience -- Language and metalanguage in Years 5-8 -- Vocabulary -- Grammar teaching -- Corpus studies of the language of English in Years 5-8 -- Method -- The corpora used -- Frequent word analysis -- Keyword analysis -- Results -- Word frequency: Aboutness -- Keywords -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 6 The language of science at the transition -- Introduction -- The KS2 and KS3 curricula -- Language and learning science at school -- Scientific thinking and the language of science -- School science, language and socio-economic status -- Features of the language of school science -- Discourse -- Grammar -- Vocabulary -- Polysemy -- Method -- The corpora -- Focus and tools -- Results -- Keywords -- Frequent words -- Aboutness and general science words -- Polysemy -- Group 1: Contextual differences -- Group 2: Fine-grained differences in use -- Group 3: Meaning differences -- Group 4: Lexico-grammatical differences -- Group 5: Frequency differences -- Metaphorical uses -- Discussion and conclusion. References -- Chapter 7 The language of mathematics at the transition -- Introduction -- The KS2 and KS3 curricula -- Learning mathematics and language -- Mathematics, anxiety and the transition -- Talking about mathematics -- Features of the language of mathematics -- Discourse -- Grammar -- Vocabulary -- Method -- The corpora -- Key feature analysis -- Keyword analysis -- Concordance and collocational analysis -- Findings -- Key feature analysis -- Results of keyword analysis -- Discourse functions of keywords -- Patterns of meanings of keywords -- Part-of-speech categories -- Concrete and abstract keywords -- Polysemy -- Collocation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Key issues and findings -- The move from generalist to specialist teachers -- Register features -- Polysemy -- Other language issues -- Context -- Awareness of the linguistic challenges of transition -- Academic language and home learning environment -- Understanding the purpose of academic language -- Research on school language and transition -- Future research and ways forward -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910746949103321 |
Deignan Alice | ||
Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics [[electronic resource] /] / Alice Deignan, University of Leeds |
Autore | Deignan Alice |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Collana | Converging evidence in language and communication research |
Soggetto topico |
Metaphor - Data processing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics / General Philology & Linguistics Languages & Literatures |
ISBN |
1-282-15675-6
9786612156755 90-272-9447-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454279603321 |
Deignan Alice | ||
Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics [[electronic resource] /] / Alice Deignan, University of Leeds |
Autore | Deignan Alice |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Collana | Converging evidence in language and communication research |
Soggetto topico |
Metaphor - Data processing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics / General Philology & Linguistics Languages & Literatures |
ISBN |
1-282-15675-6
9786612156755 90-272-9447-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782170503321 |
Deignan Alice | ||
Philadelphia, PA, USA, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and corpus linguistics / / Alice Deignan |
Autore | Deignan Alice |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina | 808/.00285 |
Collana | Converging evidence in language and communication research |
Soggetto topico |
Metaphor - Data processing
Linguistics |
ISBN |
1-282-15675-6
9786612156755 90-272-9447-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Metaphors in language and thought -- A "decorative" viewof metaphor -- Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Corpus linguistics -- Summary -- I. Current models of metaphor and metonymy -- 1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and language -- Main tenets of Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Some implications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory for language description -- Exploring linguistic metaphors as evidence for Conceptual Metaphor Theory -- Summary and conclusion -- 2. Defining metaphor -- Introduction -- Types of linguistic metaphor -- Degrees of metaphoricity: Two models -- Degrees of metaphoricity: A corpus-based classification -- Metaphor and grammar -- Metaphor and "empty" words -- Conclusion -- 3. Metaphor and metonymy -- Introduction -- Metonymy -- Combinations of metaphor and metonymy -- A cline from metaphor to metonymy -- Conclusion -- II. Current research into metaphor -- 4. Corpus research into metaphor -- Corpora and language analysis -- Issues in corpus research -- Using corpora to research metaphor -- Summary -- Note -- 5. Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor research -- Introduction -- Questions -- Research methodologies -- Corpus perspectives on cognitive and psycholinguistic research methodology -- Conclusion -- 6. Discourse approaches to metaphor research -- Introduction -- Questions -- Methodology -- The ideological use of metaphor -- Metaphor, meaning and the developing discourse -- A corpus perspective on discourse studies -- Conclusion -- III. The examination of corpus data -- 7. The grammar of metaphor -- Introduction -- Approaches to grammar and metaphor -- Metaphor and part of speech -- Detailed grammatical patterning -- Implications -- Conclusion.
8. Semantic relations in source and target domains -- Introduction -- Metaphorical mapping -- Corpus investigations: Plants -- Corpus investigations: Light and dark -- Summary and conclusion -- Note -- 9. Metaphor and collocation -- Introduction -- Collocation and corpus data -- Idiom -- Collocation and meaning -- Metaphorical mapping of collocates in the corpus -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 10. Conclusion -- Introduction -- Language and metaphor -- Corpus linguistics and cognitive metaphor theory -- Further work -- References -- Index -- The series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821535203321 |
Deignan Alice | ||
Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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