Antoinette Renouf
List of John Benjamins publications for which Antoinette Renouf plays a role.
Articles
A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, Flach, Susanne and Martin Hilpert (eds.), pp. 284–317
2022 This paper conducts a diachronic study of language change in a corpus covering almost 30 years of mainstream UK news text. In our previous studies, several databases were compiled from the corpus, including diachronic records of word frequency, collocation and morphological analysis. Upon user… read more | Chapter
Semantic neology: Challenges in matching corpus-based semantic change to real-world change Corpora and the Changing Society: Studies in the evolution of English, Rautionaho, Paula, Arja Nurmi and Juhani Klemola (eds.), pp. 79–112
2020 This study deals with contemporary real-world social change and its linguistic expression by means of neosemes, with the help of the WebCorpLSE automated collocation analysis software. The study briefly outlines the history and pattern of diffusion of each of the five user-defined neosemes, noting… read more | Chapter
A finer definition of neology in English: The life-cycle of a word Corpus Perspectives on Patterns of Lexis, Hasselgård, Hilde, Jarle Ebeling and Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (eds.), pp. 177–208
2013 Neology can be identified in a text corpus at surface level by automatic means (Renouf 1993a). In a diachronic corpus of journalism a lexical neologism can be found by comparing each word in a stream of data with a baseline index. A semantic neologism is identifiable through the change in the… read more | Article
Filling the gaps: Using the WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine to supplement existing text resources International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 18:2, pp. 167–198
2013 The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the functionality of the WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine (WebCorpLSE) by comparing it with two other freely-available online data resources: Google and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). In particular, the paper looks at how WebCorpLSE can… read more | Article
The phenomenon of lexical repulsion in text 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 213–225
2008 The advances in computing technology which made possible the study of electronic text in large quantities opened the door to the study of lexis, and crucially of significant word collocation. The type and strength of preference or ‘attraction’ which obtains between two or more words has been the… read more | Article
Tracing lexical productivity and creativity in the British media: The Chavs and the Chav-Nots Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, Munat, Judith (ed.), pp. 61–89
2007 Article
Lexical repulsion between sense-related pairs International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:3, pp. 415–444
2007 This paper builds on the groundwork and setting up of methods for an innovative approach to analysing text. We have proposed that there is a hitherto unexplored textual feature, which we call ‘repulsion’, which operates on the construction of meaning in an opposing way to that of word collocation.… read more | Article
Shall we hors d’œuvres? The Assimilation of Gallicisms into English Lexique, Syntaxe et Lexique-Grammaire / Syntax, Lexis & Lexicon-Grammar: Papers in honour of Maurice Gross, Leclère, Christian, Éric Laporte, Mireille Piot and Max Silberztein (eds.), pp. 527–545
2004 The dialects of the region now known as France have been contributing words and idioms to the English language for the last millennium. These Gallicisms serve a number of purposes, from filling lacunae, to associating the writer with French sophistication and style, to creating particular stylistic… read more | Article
Lexical signals of word relations Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey, Scott, Mike and Geoff Thompson † (eds.), pp. 35–54
2001 Editors’ introduction Renouf’s contribution, like those of Scott and Berber Sardinha, uses Corpus Linguistics (CL) techniques, analysing large amounts of text by computer. The focus in her paper is on the identification of signals of semantic relations. Thus the frame “or, more exactly” might… read more | Article
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This article presents the first results of a research project to develop an automated system for identifying thesaural items in electronic text (the ACRONYM Project). The main objective is the identification and use of nyms (words or groups of words occurring in similar collocational environments… read more | Article