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Introduction |
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0.1 Discourse and discourse analysis |
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0.2.1 What it is and what it does |
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0.2.2 Quantity, frequency, comparison and recurrence (or patterning) |
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0.3 Corpus-assisted discourse studies or CADS |
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0.3.1 Definition and aims |
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0.3.2 A comparison between traditional corpus linguistics and CADS |
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0.4 The corpora and tools for analysing corpora |
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0.4.3 Tools for analysing corpora |
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0.5 Guide to the contents of this book |
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Chapter 1 The two principles of discourse organisation: Chunk recall and inductive reasoning |
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1.2 Grammatical organisation |
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1.2.2 The idiom principle and coselection |
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1.3.1 Learning and memory |
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1.3.2 Understanding discourse |
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1.4 Inductive knowledge-driven reasoning |
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1.4.1 Needs, goals and plans |
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1.5.1 Open choice and logical induction: Rule-driven behaviour |
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1.5.2 The idiom and the script principles: Lexical priming |
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Chapter 2 Evaluation in discourse communication |
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2.1 For good and for bad, for better and for worse |
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2.3 Evaluation working in discourse |
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2.4 Categories of evaluative lexis |
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2.5 Note: The evaluator and evaluative voices |
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2.6 Evaluation and cohesion; evaluative consistency or harmony |
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2.8 Embedding and nesting |
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Chapter 3 Evaluation and control |
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3.1 Control: The linguistic unit |
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3.2 Control and power relations |
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3.3 The control feature and evaluative prosody: Examples |
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3.3.5 Persistence/Persistent |
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3.3.11 Fickle and flexible |
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Chapter 4 Investigating rhetoric in discourse 1: Irony |
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4.1 Irony explicit and implicit |
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4.3 Case study 1: Explicit irony |
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4.3.1 What is irony? Ask the people |
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4.3.3 Reversal of evaluation |
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4.4 Case study 2: Implicit irony |
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4.4.1 Using corpus techniques to find episodes of implicit irony |
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4.4.2 Reversal of evaluation in implicit irony |
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4.4.3 Verisimilar ironies: Litotes |
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4.5 Conclusions on explicit and implicit irony |
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4.6 Case study 3: The form, function and exploitation of phrasal irony |
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112 | (19) |
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4.6.1 Evaluative clash with the phrase |
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4.6.2 Evaluative oxymoron |
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4.6.3 Substitution by evaluative opposite in well-known phrases |
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4.6.4 The "popularisation" of the ironic usage of a phrase |
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4.6.5 Replacing an expected negative element of the template with something positive |
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4.6.6 Replacing an expected positive element of the template with something negative |
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4.6.7 How such ironic uses become popular |
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4.6.8 A final twist: When is evaluative reversal ironic clash and when simply a counter-instance? |
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4.6.9 Ratio, inherent hyperbole, critical intent |
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4.6.10 Conclusions on phrasal irony |
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Suggestions for further research |
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128 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 Investigating rhetoric in discourse 2: Metaphor |
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5.1 Corpus linguistics and metaphor: Methodologies |
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131 | (1) |
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5.2 Corpus linguistics and metaphor: Challenges and potential pitfalls |
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5.3 Case study 1: Metaphors of anti-Americanism |
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5.3.1 Why analyse metaphor in this context? |
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5.3.2 Corpora and methodology |
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5.3.4 Conclusions to case-study 1 |
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5.4 Case study 2: Metaphor and humour in review articles |
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5.4.1 Metaphors and meaning potential |
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5.4.2 Humour and metaphor resources |
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5.4.3 Figurative language as part of the humorous style |
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5.4.4 Incongruous comparison |
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155 | (4) |
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5.4.5 Intensification and hyperbole |
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Suggestions for further reading |
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Suggestions for further research |
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Chapter 6 Corpus-assisted stylistics: Investigating author style |
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6.1 The comic prose of P.G. Wodehouse |
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168 | (1) |
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6.3 Formality -- informality |
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6.4 Hyperbole and litotes |
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6.5 Playing with degrees of precision |
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177 | (3) |
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6.7 Playing with co-occurrence |
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180 | (2) |
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182 | (5) |
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Appendix: The contents of the three literary corpora |
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185 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 Cross-linguistic discourse analysis: Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press |
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7.1 Cross-cultural/cross-linguistic CADS |
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187 | (4) |
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7.1.2 What methodological challenges might the researcher face? |
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189 | (2) |
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7.2 Representation of migrants in the Italian and UK press |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (2) |
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7.4 Racism and xenophobia |
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194 | (6) |
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194 | (4) |
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198 | (2) |
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7.5 RASIM and ICES geographical identities: Frequencies |
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200 | (6) |
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202 | (4) |
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Suggestions for further research |
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Chapter 8 Interactive spoken discourse 1: Managing the message |
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8.1 Introduction and review |
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209 | (4) |
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8.2 The grammar of spoken discourse: Is it distinct from most forms of writing? |
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213 | (3) |
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8.3 Studying institutional adversarial talk |
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216 | (1) |
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8.4 White House press briefings |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (1) |
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8.6 Similarities and differences between the two discourse types |
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218 | (2) |
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8.7 Asserting the administrations message, imposing primings in briefings |
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220 | (7) |
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8.8 Repeated messages and forced primings in Hutton respondents' discourse |
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8.8.1 Impersonal constructions |
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228 | (1) |
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8.8.2 Key nouns: Vagueness in reference |
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229 | (3) |
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Suggestions for further research |
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232 | (7) |
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Chapter 9 Interactive spoken discourse 2: CADS & (im)politeness |
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239 | (26) |
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9.1 Overview of corpus linguistics and (im)politeness |
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239 | (2) |
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9.2 A case study: When "politeness" is not being polite |
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241 | (20) |
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9.2.2 Negative politeness |
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9.2.3 The discourse context |
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9.2.4 The corpora and corpus interrogation tools |
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246 | (2) |
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9.2.5 Identifying impoliteness |
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9.2.6 Looking for meta-pragmatic comment |
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9.2.7 Looking for shifts from transactional to interactional mode |
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9.2.8 Two illustrative markers of negative politeness |
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259 | (2) |
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Suggestions for further research |
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Chapter 10 Modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies (MD-CADS) 1: Comparisons over time in lexical grammar and discourse practices |
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10.1 Comparing the 1993, 2005 and 2010 corpora: Corpus wordlists and keywords |
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267 | (2) |
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10.2 The methodology of set identification: Evaluative lexical keywords |
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269 | (1) |
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10.3 Language in the press: Patterns in the keywords list |
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270 | (1) |
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10.5 Language in the press: Hyperbolic evaluation |
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10.6.1 Hyperbole and extremes in evaluation in the keywords |
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10.6.1.1 Size and ranking and relative importance |
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10.6.1.2 Positive and amplified evaluation |
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10.6.1.3 Intensification and emphasis |
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275 | (1) |
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10.6.3 Vague and informal evaluative lexis |
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10.7 Evaluative meanings in the keywords and diachronic conclusions |
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Chapter 11 Modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies (MD-CADS) 2: Comparisons over time of social, political and cultural issues |
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11.1 Antisemitism: The longest hatred |
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11.1.1 The statistical consistency of discourses around antisemitism |
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11.1.2 A working definition of antisemitism |
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284 | (1) |
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11.1.3 Averral and attribution |
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285 | (1) |
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11.1.5 Blending stretches containing duplicated text |
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286 | (2) |
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11.1.6 When not to remove duplicated text |
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288 | (1) |
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11.1.7 The procedure we adopted |
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288 | (1) |
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11.1.8 Looking for similarities across the datasets |
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11.1.9 Discourses on antisemitism in AS93 |
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11.1.10 Discourses on antisemitism in 2005, 2009 and 2010 |
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11.1.12 "The global Jewish conspiracy" |
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297 | (1) |
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11.1.13 Differences in focus of the three newspapers |
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298 | (2) |
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11.1.14 Discussion and conclusions on antisemitism |
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11.2 Case study 2: Girls and boys in the UK press |
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11.2.1 Why search for similarity? |
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11.2.2 Classic ways of searching for difference in corpus linguistics |
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303 | (1) |
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11.2.3 Ways of searching for similarity |
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304 | (1) |
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11.3.2.2 Consistency analysis |
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306 | (1) |
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11.2.3.4 Consistent (or wide-distribution) collocates |
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308 | (1) |
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11.2.3.6 Alternative keyword calculations |
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309 | (1) |
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11.2.4 Previous research into the use of gender terms |
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310 | (1) |
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11.2.5.4 C-clusters/c-ngrams |
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318 | (1) |
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11.2.6 Discussion and conclusions on girl/s and boy/s |
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319 | (1) |
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Suggestions for further research |
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321 | (2) |
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12.1 CADS and discourse theories |
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323 | (5) |
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12.1.1 Discourse organisation and the idiom/open choice principles |
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323 | (2) |
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325 | (1) |
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12.2 The eclecticism of CADS research |
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12.3 Corpus-assisted discourse studies: More than the sum of discourse analysis + computing |
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12.3.1 Adding value to discourse analysis: Keeping us honest and the "culture of the counterexample" |
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12.3.2 Actively looking for counterexamples |
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12.4 CADS: From research to the teaching of discourse analysis |
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339 | (4) |
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343 | (4) |
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2 Annotation and interrogation |
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343 | (1) |
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344 | (1) |
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5 Publicly available corpora which are referred to in the book (alphabetical order) |
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345 | (1) |
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5.4 Corpus of Contemporary American English (CoCA) |
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345 | (1) |
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5.5 CORD historical Corpus of English Dialogues |
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346 | (1) |
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5.6 Hong Kong Corpus of Conversational English (HKCCE) |
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346 | (1) |
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6 Selected resources for downloading data used in corpora employed in this book |
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346 | (1) |
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Appendix references |
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347 | (2) |
References |
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Author index |
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365 | (4) |
Subject index |
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