Short-term diachronic and variety-internal approaches to textual functionality in South Asian Englishes: Evidence from newspaper language

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Abstract

This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation, how tolerant English language teachers are about language variation, or how natural language can be translated into corpus query language. The thematic scope encompasses four types of ‘boundary crossings’. These include the incorporation of innovative scientific methods, specifically new statistical techniques, acoustic analysis and stylistic investigations. Additionally, temporal boundaries are crossed through the use of new methods and corpora to study diachronic data. New methodologies are also explored through the analysis of prosody, variety-specific approaches, and teacher attitudes. Finally, corpus users can cross boundaries by employing a more user-friendly corpus query language.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCrossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics
EditorsSarah Buschfeld, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff, Lisa Westermayer
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
Chapter8
Pages192-216
Number of pages25
ISBN (electronic)9789027246486
ISBN (print)9789027215949
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesStudies in Corpus Linguistics
Volume119
ISSN1388-0373

External IDs

Scopus 85206682780

Keywords

Keywords

  • Corpus Linguistics, Indian Englishes, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Indian Englishes, Sociolinguistics