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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1 Corpus approaches to discourse analysis: Introduction and section overviews -- Introduction -- Key sections of the handbook and chapter overviews -- Bibliography -- 2 Spoken workplace discourse -- Introduction -- Core issues: Corpus studies of workplace talk -- Focal analysis -- Eh and gender at work -- Previous research on the use of eh in spoken New Zealand discourse -- Corpora used for the analysis -- Results for eh and gender at work -- A discourse analysis of eh and gender at work -- Approach to analysis -- Eh and gender at work in interaction -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 3 AAC users' discourse in the workplace -- Introduction -- Historical perspectives and core issues -- Core issues for the workplace -- Focal analysis -- Research questions -- Methodology -- Analysis -- Word count -- Word frequency lists -- Keyness analysis -- Conclusion -- Note -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 4 Pilot-ATC aviation discourse -- Introduction -- Aeronautical radiotelephony -- Standardized phraseology and plain language -- Historical perspectives and core issues -- Corpus-based analysis of Aviation English -- Focal analysis: MDA of pilot-ATC discourse (vis-à-vis other spoken professional, interactional domains) -- Corpora and methodology -- Addressee-focused, polite, and "elaborated information" vs. involved and simplified talk -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 5 Patient-provider healthcare discourse -- Introduction -- Focal analysis -- Discourse-level phases -- Linguistic analysis -- Research questions -- Results -- Comparison across phases -- Comparison of linguistic features across phases -- Opening phase -- Complaint phase -- Exam phase -- Counsel phase.
Closing phase -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 6 Spoken classroom discourse -- Introduction -- Corpus approaches to classroom discourse analysis -- Approaches to analyzing classroom discourse -- Corpus-based approaches to analyzing university classroom discourse -- Corpus-based approaches to analyzing EAP classroom discourse -- Focal analysis -- Corpus and methodology -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 7 Multimodal discourse analysis -- Introduction -- Historical perspectives -- (Social) semiotics -- Multimodal (inter)action analysis -- Conversation analysis -- Gesture studies -- Analysis -- Methodology -- Coding speech functions -- Coding gestures -- Interrater reliability test -- Analysing emerging speech-gesture patterns -- TFSs checking understanding -- TFSs as a combination of checking understanding and discourse marking -- TFSs as discourse markers -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 8 Political media discourses -- Introduction: Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies of political media discourses -- Types of contemporary political communication -- Politician-to-politician communication -- Politicians communicating to the public, with the media playing a mainly facilitating function -- Politicians communicating with the media -- The media addressing the public -- Citizen-to-citizen communication -- A contrastive study of Chinese and US foreign affairs press briefings -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 9 Discourse of Congressional hearings -- Introduction -- Historical perspectives -- Language policy and planning -- Corpus-based approaches to language policy and planning -- Focal study: The "English language learner" in "No Child Left Behind" and "Every Student Succeeds Act": A Corpus-Based ... -- Background -- NCLB and ESSA.
"Limited English proficient" and "English language learner" -- Method -- Corpus and context -- Analysis -- Findings -- Overview for NCLB and ESSA -- Qualitative findings for NCLB -- Qualitative findings for ESSA -- Discussion -- Limitations -- Focal study conclusion -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 10 Discourse of American broadcast news -- Introduction -- Core issues: Television genres and kinds of screen text in variation studies -- Focal analysis: A case study of the verbal language on TV -- Research question -- Methodology and findings -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 11 Film discourse -- Introduction -- Core issues: Corpus-assisted studies on film discourse -- Filmic corpora -- Focal analysis: A case study on the stability of film discourse -- Similarities in results obtained through the same methodology from a big and a small corpus -- Similarities in results obtained through different methodologies from a big and a small corpus -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 12 Movie discourse: Marvel and DC Studios compared -- Introduction -- Historical background and core issues -- Focal study -- Research question and methodology -- Results -- Marvel vs. DC-movies: Textual type -- Marvel vs. DC-movies: Linguistic features -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 13 Corpora and diachronic analysis of English -- Introduction -- Core perspectives: Carrying out a historical analysis -- Aims and scope -- English historical corpora -- Carrying out a diachronic analysis -- Focal analysis: A variationist case study on Early Modern English intensifiers -- Theoretical framework -- Selection of corpora -- Data collection and processing -- Results and discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 14 Elementary learners' writing -- Introduction.
Historical perspectives and core issues -- Grammatical complexity in learners' writing -- Corpus-based investigations of children's writing -- Functional perspectives on children's writing -- Lexical bundles and discourse functions -- Focal analysis -- Research questions -- Participants and data collection -- Methods -- Retrieval of lexical bundles -- Analysis of discourse functions -- Results -- Lexical bundle types -- Discourse functions of lexical bundles -- Comparisons of sub-corpora -- Comparison across grades -- Comparison across first languages -- Comparison across text types -- Evidence of writing development -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 15 Undergraduate writing -- Introduction -- Background -- Academic discourse communities -- Academic written discourses -- Meta-discourse -- Case study: Meta-discourse in undergraduate biology writing -- Corpus and methods -- Findings -- Hedges -- Boosters -- Attitude markers -- Biology assignment types -- Other interactional features -- Conclusions -- Note -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 16 L2 discourse functions of the Spanish subjunctive -- Introduction -- Perspectives and core issues in research on the Spanish subjunctive -- The Spanish subjunctive -- Subjunctive SLA research -- Considerations in studying L2 discourse -- Corpus-based analysis of the Spanish subjunctive -- Focal analysis -- Corpus description -- Identifying major discourse types associated with learner subjunctive use -- Identifying local features that learners associate with the subjunctive -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 17 Morphological complexity of L2 discourse -- Introduction -- Background -- Automated measurements of learner production -- Morphology in language acquisition -- The intersection of morphology and natural language processing.
The Tool for Automatic Measurement of Morphological Information (TAMMI) -- Case study -- Methods -- Data -- Linguistic analysis -- Statistical analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Measuring morphology in learner production -- Limitations -- Future directions -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 18 Discourse of academia from a multidimensional perspective -- Introduction -- Historical perspectives or core issue and topics -- Focal analyses -- Research questions -- Corpora -- Methodology -- Factor 1 -- Factor 2 -- Factor 3 -- Findings -- Analysis of the applied linguistics corpus -- Sample of Dimension 1 (quantitative, empirical research) -- Sample of Dimension 2 (education) -- Sample of Dimension 2 (linguistic theory) -- Sample of Dimension 3, positive pole (interaction) -- Sample of Dimension 3, negative pole (pronunciation) -- Analysis of the TESOL Quarterly article corpus -- Factor 1 -- Factor 2 -- Factor 3 -- Factor 4 -- Factor 5 -- Sample of Dimension 1, positive pole (literacy, critical, social, cultural concerns) -- Sample of Dimension 1, negative pole (proficiency) -- Sample of Dimension 2, positive pole (linguistic theory) -- Sample of Dimension 2, negative pole (education) -- Sample of Dimension 3, positive pole (empirical science) -- Sample of Dimension 3, negative pole (materials and techniques) -- Sample of Dimension 4, positive pole (teachers, planning, and sequencing) -- Sample of Dimension 5, positive pole (skills: reading and writing) -- Sample of Dimension 5, negative pole (skills: listening and speaking) -- Comparison of dimensions -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Bibliography -- 19 Business discourse -- Introduction -- Background -- What is business discourse? -- Existing, large-scale corpora -- Corpus-based studies of written business discourse -- Corpus-based studies of spoken business discourse.
Focal analysis: Organizational social actors in management writing.
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Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing : effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise / / edited by Ute Römer, Viviana Cortes, Eric Friginal
