“Papa Said That One Day I Would Understand”: Examining Child Agency and Character Development in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Using Critical Corpus Linguistics

Hardstaff, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s10583-014-9231-1

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“…References were typically pronouns (it, she, they) and nouns (voices, shadow, Roxy), though were also found in determiners (this, some, which), verbs as gerunds (commenting, whispering), numbers (the first one) and adjectives (there's one good and one bad). The tagging allowed us to overcome the challenge identified by, for example, Hardstaff (2015), in missing out on a large number of anaphoric and cataphoric references to a subject.…”

Section: Corpus Linguistics and Our Approach To Triangulationmentioning

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Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology

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Březina

Demjén

et al. 2022

IJCL

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Triangulating corpus linguistic approaches with other (linguistic and non-linguistic) approaches enhances “both the rigour of corpus linguistics and its incorporation into all kinds of research” (McEnery & Hardie, 2012: 227). Our study investigates an important area of mental health research: the experiences of those who hear voices that others cannot hear, and particularly the ways in which those voices are described as person-like. We apply corpus methods to augment the findings of a qualitative approach to 40 interviews with voice-hearers, whereby each interview was coded as involving ‘minimal’ or ‘complex’ personification of voices. Our analysis provides linguistic evidence in support of the qualitative coding of the interviews, but also goes beyond a binary approach by revealing different types and degrees of personification of voices, based on how they are referred to and described by voice-hearers. We relate these findings to concepts that inform therapeutic interventions in clinical psychology.

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Section: Corpus Linguistics and Our Approach To Triangulationmentioning

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Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology

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Březina

Demjén

et al. 2022

IJCL

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“…From section 3.1 we learn that SFL has already been successfully applied in analyzing agency in written discourse (e.g. Oteiza & Pinto, 2008;Hardstaff, 2014). According to Halliday (1975), language has three functions.…”

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Human Agency and Its Discursive Practices

Qi¹

2019

IJL

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This paper is aimed to provide a review about the studies on how people practice their agency in various types of discourse and to suggest the possible directions for future research. The paper begins with the introduction to different conceptualizations of human agency in philosophy and sociology. Next, it reviews how human agency has been explored in written discourses like textbooks, news stories and novels, as well as in spoken discourses including conversations and oral narratives. Then, it highlights the relationship between agency and systemic functional linguistics, as the latter has been effectively applied to analyzing human agency in discourse. The review shows that studies on discursive practice of agency have demonstrated the following features. First, human agency has been studied in various types of discourse with methodological biases. Second, the majority of the studies take a relatively static view towards agency within a particular discourse. Third, most of the studies are qualitative analysis to selected individual sentences or utterances. At the end of the paper, suggestions are given for further research based on the research gaps identified.

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Human Agency and Its Linguistic Representations

2023

Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories

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“Papa Said That One Day I Would Understand”: Examining Child Agency and Character Development in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Using Critical Corpus Linguistics

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology

Corpus linguistics and clinical psychology

Human Agency and Its Discursive Practices

Human Agency and Its Linguistic Representations

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