Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution

Abstract

Corpus linguistics provides the methodology to extract meaning from texts.Taking as its starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and think about reality, it focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a discourse community.Consisting of both spoken and written language, discourse always has historical, social, functional and regional dimensions. Discourse can be monolingual or multilingual, interconnected by translations. Discourse is where language and social studies meet.The Corpus and Discourse series consists of two strands. The first, Research in Corpus and Discourse, features innovative contributions to various aspects of corpus linguistics and a wide range of applications, from language technology via the teaching of a second language to a history of mentalities. The second strand, Studies in Corpus and Discourse, is comprised of key texts bridging the gap between social studies and linguistics. Although equally academically rigorous, this strand will be aimed at a wider audience of academics and postgraduate students working in both disciplines.

Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain

“…The 'Northern Ireland in Parliamentary Discourse' dataset (NIPD) is a 12,751,975-word corpus capturing all UK Parliament debates on Northern Ireland in the 65 years following its creation. I divide these 2,449 debates into 13 five-year blocks 141 (emulating similar historical discourse studies of prostitution 142 and race): 143 with a mean word count of 980,921, and with each block corresponding to a different 'chapter' in Northern Ireland's first decades (Northern Ireland's creation (1920-4); the Second World War (1940-4); the civil rights movement (1965-9); the Heath administration and Direct Rule (1970-4); etc.). This article advances a series of findings about language use over 65 years of parliamentary discourse; it does so by tracking change/continuity of specific measures between these blocks.…”

A Computer-Assisted Applied Corpus Analysis of Writing Errors Made by Senior Students of The English Language Department Faculty of Arts at Tanta University

“…Early corpus linguistics before Chomsky was exclusively corpus-like, as methodological pedagogy was based on observed language usage, (McEnery, 2016).…”

Sexist stereotypes in the Spanish speaking press: A collocational analysis of the lemmas man and woman

“…Digital media data has expanded exponentially, and it is the object of study in disciplines such as Sociology, Communication, Psychology, and Linguistics. In terms of CL, its reach extends beyond its disciplinary confines, with corpus approaches notably applied to research in subjects including but not limited to Anthropology (Nolte et al, 2018), Geography (Gregory et al, 2015), History (McEnery & Baker, 2016), Literature (Biber, 2011) and Translation Studies (Laviosa, 2002).…”