I’m having a spring clear out: a corpus-based analysis of e-transactional discourse

Knight, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4745-6502, Walsh, Steve and Papagiannidis, Savvas 2017. I’m having a spring clear out: a corpus-based analysis of e-transactional discourse. Applied Linguistics 38 (2) , pp. 234-257. 10.1093/applin/amv019

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Abstract

The focus of this paper is on characterizing patterns of language use in online auction sites (the ‘e-marketplace’), with a specific focus on the language used in product descriptions listed on eBay. Through a corpus-based based analysis of a sub-corpus of a 6.3-million-word corpus of eBay data, the authors aim to gain a better understanding of variance in descriptions, depending on two key factors: seller experience and item condition (a high number of ‘new’ listings for a particular seller is likely to be a sign of a more experienced seller). This paper describes the methods and approaches used to construct the eBay corpus and provides a detailed analysis of a sub-corpus of data as a means of identifying some of the key transactional and interactional features found in this genre of discourse.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Publisher:	Oxford University Press (OUP)
ISSN:	0142-6001
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2024 16:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73638

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