Exploring text-initial words, clusters and concgrams in a newspaper corpus

Abstract

The notion of 'textual colligation' predicts

8. Corpus linguistics and discourse analysis

“…At the same time, they are general enough to cover a variety of subject matters in news articles. O'Donnell et al (2012) take the investigation of textual positions of lexical patterns in news articles even further and describe words, clusters (i.e. repeated sequences of words) and concgrams (i.e.…”

“…Items that express negative evaluation, such as it is not clear seem more likely to occur in the third and last quarter of book reviews than in the first half (Römer 2010: 114). Mahlberg (2009b), Mahlberg and O'Donnell (2008), O'Donnell et al (2012) and Römer (2010) all use automatically identifiable textual segments defined through formal criteria (such as paragraphs or text sections defined through word counts). As part of the war news project, Haarman (2009) studies the coda, i.e.…”

Introducing a corpus of conversational stories. Construction and annotation of the Narrative Corpus

“…However, we did follow previous corpus a nnotation practice in two areas: (i) annotation of discourse presentationf ollowing categories developed in McIntyre et al's (2004) work on discourse presentation in speech-and (ii) research on textual positioning (e.g., Hoey 2005, Hoey & O'Donnell 2008, O'Donnell et al 2012 in annotating textual components (see Section 3.4.3). Generally, we observed the principle that "[a]nnotation practices should be consensual" (Leech 2005: 21).…”

“…Therefore, these boundary utterances are of great interest for researchers working in a conversation-analytical or discourse-analytical tradition interested in how participants manage transitions between different types of participation frameworks and different (sub-)genres. A second reason for annotating the boundary utterances is derived from recent research into textual positioning, which has shed light on the structural associations between lexis and different positions in text (Hoey & O'Donnell 2008;O'Donnell et al 2012;O'Donnell & Römer In preparation). The investigations of textual positioning so far have concentrated on written data.…”

Phrases in literary contexts

“…Scott & Tribble 2006, Römer 2010, O'Donnell et al 2012. In more theoretical terms, relationships between lexical and textual patterns have been captured by what Hoey (2004) calls 'textual colligations' .…”