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Towards a Corpus-Lexicographical Discourse Analysis

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Publication date13/11/2017
Host publicationProceedings of EUROPHRAS 2017: Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology: Recent Advances and Interdisciplinary Approaches
EditorsRuslan Mitkov
Pages190-196
Number of pages7
Volume2
ISBN (electronic)9782970109525
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This working paper presents the progress made thus far in the development of a corpus-lexicographical approach to discourse analysis, more specifically the application of Hanks’ [5, 6] Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA) procedure to a (critical) discourse analysis task. The theoretical basis of CPA is explained,
followed by some practical applications of CPA, namely lexicography and the
proposed method of discourse analysis. Examples are taken from an ongoing investigation into the use of ‘killing’ verbs in contemporary British English, which
draws upon two corpora: the British National Corpus (BNC) and the animal themed ‘People’, ‘Products’, ‘Pests’ and ‘Pets’ (PPPP) corpus [8]. Preliminary findings suggest that a CPA-assisted, or corpus-lexicographical, discourse analysis is one with a strong theoretical basis, whose transparency and systematicity empowers the analyst to make precise and persuasive argument