Creating a corpus of sensitive and hard-to-access texts: Methodological challenges and ethical concerns in the building of the WiSP Corpus

Leedham, Maria; Lillis, Theresa; Twiner, Alison

doi:10.1016/j.acorp.2021.100011

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“…In seeking to illustrate the key dimensions of ethics in practice, we have foregrounded the perspectives of three participant-stakeholders. Their accounts underscore the importance of ongoing dialogue between the researchers and the participant-stakeholders, in particular: a) exploring alignment between professional concerns and the researchers' stated interests in order to sustain a project (participation and involvement of any kind involves substantial investment by participants in terms of time, intellectual and emotional engagement with researchers); b) the researchers listening and deepening understanding of apparently procedural practices-notably in the case of WiSP these relate to text anonymisation practices and potential consequences (see discussion in Leedham et al , 2021); c) collaborative focusing in establishing priorities for action e.g. the foci of analysis and representation (for example, outputs may be both academia-facing.…”

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“…The research to date has led to publications oriented to academia and social work practice (e.g. Leedham et al 2020Leedham et al , 2021Lillis 2021;Lillis et al 2017 and to the generation of open access resources for educational purposes (https://wisper.writinginsocialwork.com).…”

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“…Following agreements with all agencies, written records had to be anonymised before being shared with the researchers by establishing an anonymisation coding system, such that identifying information was deleted whilst relevant contextual detail was maintained (for example, replacing a name of a person with CHILD or SU for service user or the name of a particular place with a descriptor, e.g. SCHOOL) which was far from straightforward (for details of anonymisation and implications for analysis, see Lillis et al 2017;Leedham et al 2021). A pivotal role was played by the highly supportive insider participants in both advocating for the value of making texts available for research and finding logistically feasible solutions specific to their organisations: where such support was strong, as in agencies 1 and 3, it was possible to collect a wider range of data.…”

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Reflections on the procedural and practical ethics in researching professional social work writing

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This paper explores the procedural ethics and ethics in practice involved in a multi-agency research project exploring professional social work writing. Drawing on institutional documentation and a researcher’s field notes over two years, the requirements and processes involved in complying with academia-facing and agency-facing regulatory frameworks are summarised and challenges highlighted. The main part of the paper centres on ethics in practice, building on Sarangi’s framework for articulating the communicative dimensions to research ethics, and foregrounding the importance of ongoing dialogue between researchers and participant-stakeholders. Reflective accounts from three participant-stakeholders illustrate the interrelationship between what are often presumed to be distinct moments of a research chronology – access, representation and dissemination – in the process of knowledge making. The paper concludes by highlighting the differences between academia- and agency-facing procedural ethics, and arguing for greater institutional recognition of ethics in practice, in particular the importance of ongoing dialogue between researchers and participant-stakeholders at all stages of the research process.

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“…Corpus linguistic research, which is a breakthrough in the field of linguistics, is a special concern for researchers. This attention arises because of the work steps of a research that combines knowledge in the fields of humanities (language) with digital technology (Yazici & Durmus Ozturk, 2023;CHUA 2022;Leedham et al, 2021). The breakthrough in corpus linguistics also has several views from several researchers, some supporting and some opposing.…”

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Comparison of the Speech Texts of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Study Using a Corpus Linguistic Approach

Ermanto,

JR,

Ardi

et al. 2024

J. of Law and Sust. Develop.

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Purpose: This research has several objectives. First, determine lexical density and compare the lexical density. Second, to determine the key lexical density and compare the key lexical density. Third, to test the independence of the relationship between lexical variations and the text of President Joko Widodo's and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speeches. Theoretical Reference: The theoretical basis used in this research is the lexical analysis approach in linguistics. The application of lexical perspective analysis is expected to be able to review the communication used by each individual. The theoretical lexical discussion will also use a statistical independence analysis approach. The application of a statistical independence analysis approach is used to review a person's individual language abilities. Method: This research uses a qualitative and quantitative corpus linguistics approach. The corpus linguistic application used in this research is the KORTARA application (Korpus Nusantara). The research data is a corpus of 9 texts of President Joko Widodo's speeches and a corpus of 9 texts of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono which are official speeches every 16 August before the DPR of the Republic of Indonesia. Results and Conclusion: The results of this research reveal that the text corpus of President Joko Widodo's speech is richer and more varied than the text corpus of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speech in lexical use. This research also revealed that there is a relationship between lexical variation and the type of text of the President of the Republic of Indonesia's speech with a confidence level of 95%. The difference in lexical variation and frequency between the text corpus of President Joko Widodo's speech and the text corpus of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speech is statistically significant at p < 0.05. Implication of Research: The implication of this research is the realization of the KORTARA corpus linguistic approach (Korpus Nusantara) which can facilitate research for small and large scale data. This research also reveals that the application of a statistical approach provides maximum results in the analysis of large-scale linguistic phenomena. Originality/value: The current study makes a valuable empirical contribution by combining statistical analysis using corpus and qualititative analysis to give comprehensive conclusion. This study is the answer toward the question about the reliability and validity of linguistic studies.

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2024

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Creating a corpus of sensitive and hard-to-access texts: Methodological challenges and ethical concerns in the building of the WiSP Corpus

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Reflections on the procedural and practical ethics in researching professional social work writing

Reflections on the procedural and practical ethics in researching professional social work writing

Comparison of the Speech Texts of Indonesian President Joko Widodo and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: Study Using a Corpus Linguistic Approach

The Language of Social Work

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