The presentation by Dr. Bakos was about Corpus, or Corpora in the plural form. A Corpus is a collection of words on a particular subject; it can be about academic English, spoken English, medical English and so on. As explained by Dr. Bakos, Corpora are a valuable tool because they contain real human output, they have many advantages and they show how the language works. One significant advantage is that in a Corpus we can see how the language and its uses changed in a period of time; another advantage is that it is possible to search for the frequency of words, the contexts in which they are used and learn about word combinations. After showing how to use the COCA Corpus, Dr. Bakos gave us the opportunity to use the website and search for words as well as observe their uses in various contexts and periods of time. An important aspect of …show more content…
By searching words in the COCA Corpus, and clicking on the list option, a list of sentences with the searched word appears. This is very important for learners of English because the Corpus can be helpful in order to figure out the meaning and use of a word, the grammatical function, as well as words combinations. For instance, if I want to know in what situations the word “useful” is used, I need to click on the chart option, and after the search, I will be presented with a chart that tells me in what contexts the word is used. In this case it is mainly used in academic and magazine contexts and now with this search I know that it is appropriate to use the word “useful” in an academic paper or work. This can be interesting for teachers because they can use Corpora to show students the words that are appropriate in an academic context. Additionally, by reading the various
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Introduction The introduction of the printing press changed society permanently. Along with this invention came the emergence of mass production of texts. Suddenly, information could be efficiently replicated, thus facilitating the dissemination process. Widespread alphabetic literacy, as Havelock states, could finally become a reality.
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What is a discourse community? According to John Swales, a linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (220). These common goals could be that of set rules or mission statements. In Addition, “A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” (221). This means that these communities have their own general, yet specialized way, of communicating. He also states that, “A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback” (221). He states that the use of emails, text, newsletters are in place to communicate information and feedback. Swale’s mentions the development of lexis for communication purposes in a discourse, a type of specialized language. Overall, a discourse community is a community that has its own structure and communication that is different from any other discourse. Within my discourse community of patient transport, one must be a patient transporter to understand the procedures.
John Swales theorizes that discourse communities must meet six elements of shared criteria: commons goals, participatory mechanisms, information exchange, community specific genres, have highly specialized terminology, and members who possess a general level of expertise. For the purpose of this paper, I will analyze three of these components and observe how they function within the CPhT community. My analysis will emphasize the unique lexis that is necessary to function as a member of this community. Methodology: Insider Access and an Interview over a Plate of Kibbi.
“Words”(1) are often difficult to form into speech, especially when there is a barrier of translating what they mean as opposed to what they say....
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Style has been an integral component in the field of linguistics. Linguistic style refers to a person’s speaking pattern, which can include different features such as pace, pitch, intonation, syntactic patterns, etc. Styles of speech is learned, and is often influenced by location, gender, ethnicity, and age. As different cultures and sub-cultures arise, linguistic variations occur and different sociolinguistic styles come into being. Each style can index social meanings such as group membership, personal attributes or beliefs.
Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. H. (2009), Speech and Language Processing: International Version: an Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition, 2nd ed, Pearson Education Inc, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
When we perform a textual analysis on a text, we make an informed assumption probably the most likely understandings that may be made of that text. Textual analysis is useful because we can us it to decipher texts such as films, TV programs, magazines, commercials, fashion, graffiti, etc. Instead of only judging the strengths, weaknesses, accuracy or inaccuracy of texts, we can instead look at the social practices, representations, assumptions and stories about our lives that are revealed in texts (Brennen