Patterns and Meanings in Discourse

Penetrating Historical Discourse’s Truth Matrix: A Corpus Analysis of Oral History Testimonies

“…This has shown that a corpus-assisted (Partington, 2006) framework, when used in combination with established historical methods, may add depth to historical research that involves oral history texts, establishing it as a 'curative science' rather than a 'handmaiden of philosophy' as suggested by Foucault (in Bouchard and Simon 1977, p. 156). While historians engage with texts at a level that is conducive to their discipline's understanding of what is necessary to extract what is needed as sources to inform historical narratives, this engagement likewise pertains to the knowledge of a data-set required to fulfil a corpus-assisted approach (Partington et al, 2013) to textual analysis that is counter to the distanced observation of data-sets in solely corpus analytical frameworks (Sinclair, 2004). Though the complex layers of the multi-dimensional truth matrix remain impenetrable in totality, this study has offered evidence that linguistic tools and competencies can redress the lack of reciprocity between linguists and historians alluded to by Schiffrin (2003), and offer substance to the assessment of the integrity of sources prior to their subsequent dissemination.…”

¿Quién es el pueblo? La exclusión de las minorías en la campaña electoral 2015 en España

“…Las diez cuentas suman 16.306 mensajes, que hemos estudiado con una metodología híbrida cuantitativa y cualitativa (Partington et al 2013) dada la elevada cantidad de textos de los que extraer información relevante. Por un lado, obtenemos cuáles son las palabras más frecuentes en términos absolutos y en comparación con las otras cuentas.…”

Crossing languages – crossing discourses

“…CADS is suitable for two reasons: it highlights the significance of comparative analyses and it encourages researchers to interrogate corpus data in various ways, using the traditional tools of corpus linguistics such as collocations and concordances (Partington 2008) as well as other data sources that might help contextualise and interpret results (Krishnamurthy 1996;Partington et al 2013). The present study therefore examines the use of Kulturkampf in various types of dictionaries with usage data from web and newspaper corpora in three languages, adding triangulated and trilateral crosslinguistic comparisons as an additional dimension to research on lexical borrowing.…”

“…To investigate the usage of Kulturkampf in German, Polish and English, we adopt the approach of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS; Partington 2008;Partington et al 2013). CADS is suitable for two reasons: it highlights the significance of comparative analyses and it encourages researchers to interrogate corpus data in various ways, using the traditional tools of corpus linguistics such as collocations and concordances (Partington 2008) as well as other data sources that might help contextualise and interpret results (Krishnamurthy 1996;Partington et al 2013).…”

“…Drawing on the notion of "discursive appropriation" proposed by Schröter and Leuschner (2013), we investigate the extent to which Kulturkampf has been discursively appropriated in Polish and English in comparison with German and the functions that such appropriations serve. To do so, we adopt the methodology of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS), which integrates quantitative corpus linguistics with qualitative, discourse-analytical procedures (Partington et al 2013).…”