Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: a meta-analysis

Nartey, Mark; Mwinlaaru, Isaac N.

doi:10.3366/cor.2019.0169

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“…A synthesis of purposively selected 39 studies conducted by a range of researchers, both faculty and students, on the language of evaluation in academic writing in Ghana was undertaken, by way of addressing the key linguistic, pragmatic, and rhetorical features. Content analysis (or thematic analysis), inclusion/exclusion, and comparative approaches were adopted in line with Nartey and Mwinlaaru (2019).…”

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The language of evaluation in academic writing research in Ghana, 2000-2020: A synthesis

Afful¹,

Twumasi²

2022

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Considerable interest in academic writing, in general, and the language of evaluation, in particular, has been demonstrated in the last two decades among English for Academic and Publishing Purposes (EAPP) researchers, scholars, and practitioners. The paper continues such a trajectory of research by exploring the emerging scholarship on the language of evaluation in academic writing in Ghana, which in the same period has seen an upsurge in the number of tertiary educational institutions and, unsurprisingly, the increasing attention to academic writing.To accomplish the above task, we first provide a conceptual sketch of the key terms underpinning the synthesis. The purposively selected data are then examined through a combination of the qualitative content analysis, exclusion and inclusion, and comparison approaches. The analysis indicates that attention has been paid, in varying ways, to such linguistic/rhetorical and pragmatic resources as reporting verbs, discourse markers, nominalization, the staging of moves/steps, evaluative lexis, critical speech acts, metadiscourse, hedging, and bibliographic citation. A minor finding concerns the dominant use of such research and pedagogic genres as the research article and thesis as the primary data for the synthesis, followed by assessment genres, research proposal and critical review. These findings show that Ghanaian researchers, like many other researchers worldwide, are in touch with the research agenda initiated by EAPP researchers and practitioners in the Anglo-American context. It is hoped that this paper can provide relevant information on the language of evaluation teaching and research in a regional context and motivate similar research efforts in other contexts.

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The language of evaluation in academic writing research in Ghana, 2000-2020: A synthesis

Afful¹,

Twumasi²

2022

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“…In particular, the benefit of complementing a DA with a corpus or vice versa lies in the conjunction of quantitative and qualitative methods (Knoblock, 2020). A meta-analysis by Nartey and Mwinlaaru (2019) has shown that corpus-assisted approaches are frequently used in linguistics, and yet they identify a lack of such research "in the allied field of critical genre analysis and forensic contexts as well (as) those of contrastive/intercultural rhetoric, narrative inquiry/analysis, mediated discourse analysis, and conversation analysis have hardly been engaged" (p. 19, my emphasis). Thus, the present paper aims at contributing to the extant literature in the area of corpus-assisted discourse analysis in forensic contexts (e.g., Coulthard, 1994;Kredens, 2002;Cotterill, 2003;Heffer, 2005;Gruber, 2014;Felton Rosulek, 2015;Gales, 2015;Tkacuková, 2015;Wright, 2021), and it is also the first one, to my knowledge, to address the language of private prison corporations in the United States.…”

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Serving the Public Good?—A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Private Prisons and For-Profit Incarceration in the United States

Marko

2021

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It is a well-known fact that the United States has a very high prison population compared to other countries, and that it is particularly the private prison industry that has been thriving. This industry is based on a for-profit ideology that aims to save money by cutting costs wherever possible, and that, based on their profit-orientation, has no interest in rehabilitating offenders, since they make money with every incarcerated person. This paper investigates these issues from a linguistic perspective and takes a corpus of texts collected from the websites of the two largest private prison corporations in the United States (CoreCivic and The GEO Group) as a starting point for a corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The corpus comprises a total of 25,386 words and the analyses reveal that while both companies discursively background issues of violence, recidivism, and costs, they place a focus on the safety and security of their facilities and on their reentry programs for inmates. Thus, it is argued that the investigated corporations shift the discursive focus away from a negative discourse centering on violence and recidivism to a positive discourse centering on reentry and safety, which actively counters the findings that several researchers and journalists alike have revealed.

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“…Where needed, computer assisted discourse analysis of the texts was used, especially when adopting and extending the corpus assisted multimodal discourse analysis (CAMDA) framework proposed by Bednarek and Caple (2014, 2017). The use of corpus assisted analysis has been shown to be effective in complementing findings of smaller data sets (generated by CDA or discourse analysis), by triangulating findings within a larger data set (see Baker et al, 2008; also Nartey & Mwinlaaru, 2019). Details of this process are laid out in the analytical approach section.…”

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Newspaper Coverage of Paralympic Athletes: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

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This study examines representations of athletes with impairments who competed at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Discourse analysis from a linguistic perspective was employed to investigate gendered descriptions of disabled persons and the emotional expressions of Paralympic athletes, as printed in verbal and visual texts found in Malaysian English Language newspapers. Emotional expressions displayed in visual texts were analyzed through visual semiotics. Additionally, corpus assisted analysis was employed to triangulate the findings where necessary. Findings indicated that disability sport had little in common with non-disability sport in terms of coverage volume. Written depictions of perceived impairment most frequently used medical terms to describe both female and male athletes and were concentrated in the lead paragraphs. There were more pictures of athletes that focused on faces rather than on impairments. Finally, analyses prominently revealed that emotional elements were an integral part of the Paralympic sports news narrative, with all positive emotion words for males, and facial affect for both females and males also positive. Many pictures depicted smiles and happy expressions at medal award ceremonies.

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Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: a meta-analysis

Cited by 51 publications

References 96 publications

The language of evaluation in academic writing research in Ghana, 2000-2020: A synthesis

The language of evaluation in academic writing research in Ghana, 2000-2020: A synthesis

Serving the Public Good?—A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Private Prisons and For-Profit Incarceration in the United States

Newspaper Coverage of Paralympic Athletes: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis

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