Essays about: "corpus-studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word corpus-studies.

  1. 1. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
    Keywords : semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

    Abstract : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. READ MORE

  3. 2. Aviation Discourses in News : The influence of the political climate on climate politics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Jonathan Rahn; [2022]
    Keywords : Climate Change Communication; Critical Discourse Studies; Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis; Diachronic Corpus Studies; Media Studies;

    Abstract : Climate change must be considered one of the most critical issues of the coming decades that poten- tially poses foundational threats to human societies. Aviation has relatively little impact on green- house gas emissions globally, but this picture changes when focusing on emissions of rich industrial states. READ MORE

  4. 3. A Beautiful Wife Makes a Happy Husband : A CADS-based study on collocates to ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ throughout times in both movies and contemporary culture

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Anna Strandberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Collocates; Corpus; Husband; Wife; The Movie Corpus; The Corpus of Historical American English; CADS; kollokationer; korpuslingvistik; make; maka; the Movie Corpus; The Corpus of Historical American English; CADS;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to investigate the differences between what collocations are used for ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ in films and contemporary culture. The comparison spans through different decades and the decades will also be compared and analysed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Grounding of names in directory enquiries dialogue. A corpus study of listener feedback behaviour

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Anastasia Bondarenko; [2019-10-16]
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    Abstract : This paper presents a new corpus of dialogues in the domain of directory enquiries. We describe its collection and annotation process and then analyse feedback strategies employed by the dialogue participants focusing mainly on the grounding instances in the context of transmission of names. READ MORE

  6. 5. What defines a Parent? : A Corpus Study of the Shift in Meaning of the Word Parent in American English during the 19th and 20th Centuries

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Karin Persson; [2019]
    Keywords : Parent; Corpus Linguistics; Corpus Studies; the Corpus of Historical American English; COHA; Semantic Change;

    Abstract : This essay examines how the sense of the word parent has developed and possibly changed during the 19th and 20th centuries. The hypothesis is that father was the most common meaning in the early 1800s and that by the end of the 20th century it had changed into having a more general sense, denoting all caregivers of a child. READ MORE