Analysing intra-textual patterns in corpus-assisted discourse studies

Bednarek, Monika 2024. Analysing intra-textual patterns in corpus-assisted discourse studies. Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies 7 , pp. 43-62. 10.18573/jcads.113

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Abstract

Many corpus-based discourse analysts are interested in linguistic patterns that hold across the texts in their corpus. In such corpus-based studies, relatively little attention is given to ‘intra-textual’ patterns or discourse organisation/text structure. For example, a standard practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies is to generate lists of word frequencies, keywords, collocates, and n-grams on the basis of total word frequencies in the corpus, without analysing how these words are used to structure texts or conversations. In this commentary, I reflect on this issue, and introduce selected techniques for integrating analysis of text structure/discourse organisation in corpus-assisted discourse studies, including the analysis of dispersion/concordance plots in media data, the use of clusters/n-grams across sentence breaks in conversational data, and the repurposing of parallel concordances for analysing Twitter posts and responses to them.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	2515-0251
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 June 2024
Date of Acceptance:	16 January 2024
Last Modified:	26 Jul 2024 09:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169644

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