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Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discoursesEdited by Ute Römer and Rainer Schulze
[International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:3] 2008
► pp. 322–350
The ‘terroridiom’ principle between spoken and written discourse
Denise Milizia | University of Bari
Cinzia Spinzi | University of Naples
This paper focuses on phraseology used within the domain of politics, both in written and spoken discourse. We concentrate on the
lemma TERROR and on the recurrent sequences in which it is embedded, reflecting how native speakers, both American and British,
tend to use it in preferred environments making routinized blocks of language. The data come from two corpora: the spoken corpus
includes speeches of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and the written corpus is made up of articles from The Wall Street
Journal and The Economist. Since text is nothing but phraseology of one kind or another (Sinclair
2008), our attempt here is to uncover which of the two varieties lends itself more willingly to creating phrases that are handled
like single units. The two pieces of software used to retrieve such units (n-grams and concgrams) are WordSmith Tools (Scott
2004), and ConcGram (Greaves 2005).
Keywords: concgram, origin, clusters, canonical, proto-typical
Published online: 17 September 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.13.3.05mil
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.13.3.05mil
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