719026668 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SCL 105 Hb 15 9789027212665 06 10.1075/scl.105 13 2022034734 00 BB 08 735 gr 10 01 JB code SCL 02 1388-0373 02 105.00 01 02 Studies in Corpus Linguistics Studies in Corpus Linguistics 01 01 Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics New approaches to variability and change Broadening the Spectrum of Corpus Linguistics: New approaches to variability and change 1 B01 01 JB code 100389266 Susanne Flach Flach, Susanne Susanne Flach Universität Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/100389266 2 B01 01 JB code 233389267 Martin Hilpert Hilpert, Martin Martin Hilpert Université de Neuchâtel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/233389267 01 eng 11 327 03 03 vi 03 00 321 03 10 LAN009000 12 CF 24 JB code LIN.CORP Corpus linguistics 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. 03 00 This volume presents a snapshot of the current state of the art of research in English corpus linguistics. It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis, and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/scl.105.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027212665.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027212665.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/scl.105.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/scl.105.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/scl.105.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/scl.105.hb.png 01 01 JB code scl.105.int 06 10.1075/scl.105.int 1 5 5 Chapter 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 312445758 Susanne Flach Flach, Susanne Susanne Flach Universität Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/312445758 2 A01 01 JB code 736445759 Martin Hilpert Hilpert, Martin Martin Hilpert Université de Neuchâtel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/736445759 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.p1 06 10.1075/scl.105.p1 7 Section header 2 01 04 New perspectives New perspectives 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.01mik 06 10.1075/scl.105.01mik 8 39 32 Chapter 3 01 04 Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle 01 04 A contrastive outlook A contrastive outlook 1 A01 01 JB code 312445760 Olaf Mikkelsen Mikkelsen, Olaf Olaf Mikkelsen Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/312445760 2 A01 01 JB code 547445761 Stefan Hartmann Hartmann, Stefan Stefan Hartmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/547445761 01 eng 30 00 This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. We replicate this result for English on the basis of data from the Spoken BNC 2014. In addition, we address the question of whether this account can be generalized to another language that shows a very similar alternation, namely Norwegian (skal/vil vs. kommer til å). We use data from the Norwegian Speech Corpus (NoTa) and the BigBrother corpus, showing that syntactic complexity correlates with the shorter form skal here. We take this as an indication that the observed syntactic distribution is actually a side-effect of semantic differences and suggest possible explanations for this. 01 01 JB code scl.105.02gil 06 10.1075/scl.105.02gil 40 67 28 Chapter 4 01 04 Diachronic learner corpus research Diachronic learner corpus research 01 04 Examining learner language through the lens of time Examining learner language through the lens of time 1 A01 01 JB code 883445798 Gaëtanelle Gilquin Gilquin, Gaëtanelle Gaëtanelle Gilquin Université catholique de Louvain 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/883445798 01 eng 30 00 This paper argues for a diachronic approach to the study of learner language and provides a first exploration of the evolution of English as a foreign language over the last twenty-five years, relying on a corpus resource specifically designed for the short-term diachronic analysis of learner English. The paper describes some of the challenges involved in creating such a resource and shows how these challenges have been responded to. It then investigates a number of linguistic features, some of them taken from short-term diachronic research on native English, and highlights certain changes, underlining that these may be the consequence of natural linguistic evolution, but also of other factors characterizing the acquisition of a foreign language. 01 01 JB code scl.105.03sch 06 10.1075/scl.105.03sch 68 89 22 Chapter 5 01 04 Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English 01 04 An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database 1 A01 01 JB code 574445799 Marco Schilk Schilk, Marco Marco Schilk University of Hildesheim 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/574445799 2 A01 01 JB code 802445800 Lena Pickert Pickert, Lena Lena Pickert University of Hildesheim 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/802445800 01 eng 30 00 Though generally considered a non-rhotic variety, New Zealand English (NZE) shows some variation in terms of rhotic vowel colouring, mainly observed in southern New Zealand speakers. The current study uses an acoustic approach to a new audio-visual database, the UC Canterbury QuakeBox (Walsh et al. 2013) to account for variation in the degree of rhotic vowel colouring in southern NZE speakers. Identifying all nurse vowels in the data of eight representative speakers with interview transcripts, auditory perception, and a Praat-based acoustic analysis, rhotic vowel colouring is subsequently rated based on third formant (F3) realization. Results show that southern speakers display rhotic vowel colouring to varying degrees. A mixed-effects model and qualitative interpretation of key speakers further suggest an age-based cline of rhoticity with younger speakers converging on the non-rhotic standard, indicating that this rhotic vowel colouring in Southern speakers may be due to resistance to dialect levelling rather than ongoing differentiation. 01 01 JB code scl.105.p2 06 10.1075/scl.105.p2 91 Section header 6 01 04 Revisiting old debates Revisiting old debates 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.04lef 06 10.1075/scl.105.04lef 92 131 40 Chapter 7 01 04 "I'm putting some salt in my sandwich". “I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”. 01 04 The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation 1 A01 01 JB code 783445801 Elen Le Foll Le Foll, Elen Elen Le Foll Osnabrück University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/783445801 01 eng 30 00 Previous studies have claimed that the progressive is frequently over- and misrepresented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks (e.g. Römer 2005). This paper compares the representation of progressives in the dialogues of nine series of secondary school EFL textbooks (43 volumes) to the Spoken BNC2014. The frequencies, morphosyntactic and functional aspects of progressive constructions, such as contraction, negation, framing and time reference, are investigated. Collostructional analysis is used to explore the lexical associations of the progressive. A number of idiosyncratic uses of the progressive in textbook conversation are highlighted and pedagogical implications discussed. In particular, key conversational discourse-structuring phrasemes in the progressive are found to be critically underrepresented. 01 01 JB code scl.105.05per 06 10.1075/scl.105.05per 132 171 40 Chapter 8 01 04 Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English 1 A01 01 JB code 522445802 Javier Pérez-Guerra Pérez-Guerra, Javier Javier Pérez-Guerra Universidade de Vigo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/522445802 01 eng 30 00 While Verb-Object (VO) is the basic unmarked constituent order of predicates in Present-Day English, in older stages Object-Verb (OV) was the preferred option at least in certain syntactic contexts. This corpus-based study investigates OV linearisation after the loss of verb-second and focuses on morphosyntactic, processing, semantic and textual determinants of the VO/OV variation in the transition from Late Middle to Early Modern English. The findings reveal a shift from OV word order, ruled by systematic predictors in Late Middle English, to an essentially stylistic alternative in Early Modern English, when VO succeeded as the syntacticised organisation in English predicates. Also, in the later period, the postverbal slot was adapted to host constituents functioning as objects, which constitutes an illustration of exaptation. 01 01 JB code scl.105.06sch 06 10.1075/scl.105.06sch 172 195 24 Chapter 9 01 04 Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions 1 A01 01 JB code 610445803 Gerold Schneider Schneider, Gerold Gerold Schneider University of Zurich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/610445803 01 eng 30 00 Starting from a data-driven approach, the current paper compares the BNC1994 spoken to the BNC2014. We first narrow down possible research questions due to differences in the compilation and transcription of the two BNC generations. Then we investigate three robustly detectable changes at the level of lexis and morphosyntax: (1) gender and class differences, (2) the increase of be- and get-passive constructions and -ing forms from the verbal domain, and (3) the increase of noun compounds from the nominal domain. We also focus on the social context in which linguistic changes are embedded: which noun compounds particularly increase; which words are overused by which gender or social class? Technology seems to be a driver in the further advance of the construction of noun compounds, and strong swearing seems to have decreased between 1994 and 2014. 01 01 JB code scl.105.07bou 06 10.1075/scl.105.07bou 196 225 30 Chapter 10 01 04 "Oh yeah, one more thing: It's gonna be huge." “Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.” 01 04 On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing 1 A01 01 JB code 303445804 Samuel Bourgeois Bourgeois, Samuel Samuel Bourgeois Université de Neuchâtel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/303445804 01 eng 30 00 This paper investigates the use of oh yeah in written prose found in American journalistic articles using corpus data. It demonstrates that such uses are a recent phenomenon that have risen in frequency starting at end of the 20th century. These new written functions are adapted to the written medium, but still resemble how oh yeah is used in speech. These developments contribute further insights to the changes occurring in journalistic writing. Furthermore, this paper concentrates on how oh yeah is adapted into journalistic writing to inject an interpersonal flair into the articles in which it is used. The timing of these developments also indicates a later wave of change to journalism that has been until now under-discussed. 01 01 JB code scl.105.p3 06 10.1075/scl.105.p3 227 Section header 11 01 04 Refinements & innovations Refinements & innovations 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.08dyk 06 10.1075/scl.105.08dyk 228 255 28 Chapter 12 01 04 Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis 1 A01 01 JB code 554445769 Nathan Dykes Dykes, Nathan Nathan Dykes Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/554445769 2 A01 01 JB code 806445770 Philipp Heinrich Heinrich, Philipp Philipp Heinrich Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/806445770 3 A01 01 JB code 195445771 Stephanie Evert Evert, Stephanie Stephanie Evert Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/195445771 01 eng 30 00 We propose a corpus linguistic approach for retrieving argumentation from tweets about Brexit. We analyse two corpora, one from before the referendum in 2016 and one from early 2019. Our approach is based on the manual development of morphosyntactic corpus queries (in CQP syntax) that target specific argumentation patterns. For the present corpora we have developed 130 queries targeting 34 logical formulae. The paper showcases the query development and presents quantitative and qualitative results on how Brexit-related arguments have changed on Twitter from 2016 to 2019. 01 01 JB code scl.105.09gri 06 10.1075/scl.105.09gri 256 283 28 Chapter 13 01 04 MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies 01 04 Two (more) suggestions for improvement Two (more) suggestions for improvement 1 A01 01 JB code 86445772 Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th. Stefan Th. Gries University of California/Justus Liebig University Giessen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/86445772 01 eng 30 00 Corpus-based studies of learner language and (especially) English varieties have become more quantitative in nature and increasingly use regression-based methods and classifiers such as classification trees, random forests, etc. One recent development that is becoming more widely used is the MuPDAR (Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis using Regressions) approach of Gries and Deshors (2014) and Gries and Adelman (2014). This approach attempts to improve on traditional regression- or tree-based approaches by, firstly, training a model/classifier on the reference speakers (often native speakers in learner corpus studies or British English speakers in variety studies), then, secondly, using this model/classifier to predict what such a reference speaker would produce in the situation the target speaker is in (often non-native speakers or indigenized-variety speakers). The third step then consists of determining whether the target speakers made a canonical choice or not and explore that variability with a second regression model or classifier. The present paper is a follow-up to Gries and Deshors’s (2020) and offers additional answers to a variety of questions that readers and audiences to MuPDAR presentations have been raising for a few years. First, I show how MuPDAR can be extended straightforwardly to alternations that involve more than the typically used binary choices; I do so in a way that also addresses another potential challenge and exemplify this with a case study from varieties research. Second, I outline a casewise-similarity approach towards predicting what reference speakers would do that avoids frequent regression modeling problems and exemplify, as well as compare, it to competing alternatives with a case study from learner corpus research. 01 01 JB code scl.105.10keh 06 10.1075/scl.105.10keh 284 317 34 Chapter 14 01 04 A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis 1 A01 01 JB code 9445805 Andrew Kehoe Kehoe, Andrew Andrew Kehoe Birmingham City University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/9445805 2 A01 01 JB code 269445806 Matt Gee Gee, Matt Matt Gee Birmingham City University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/269445806 3 A01 01 JB code 549445807 Antoinette Renouf Renouf, Antoinette Antoinette Renouf Birmingham City University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/549445807 01 eng 30 00 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 enquiry, our WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine produced tailored output from these resources. The system was therefore passive, requiring a word or phrase to be specified before querying the databases. The aim now is to extend the data-driven functionality to track the frequency of words in the corpus across time automatically and alert users to statistically significant change patterns. 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It contains selected papers from the 40th ICAME conference in 2019 and features contributions from experts in synchronic, diachronic, and contrastive linguistics, as well as in sociolinguistics, phonetics, discourse analysis, and learner language. The volume showcases the particular strengths of research in the ICAME tradition. The papers in this volume offer new insights from the reanalysis of new data types, methodological refinements and advancements of quantitative analysis, and from taking new perspectives on ongoing debates in their respective fields. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/scl.105.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027212665.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027212665.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/scl.105.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/scl.105.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/scl.105.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/scl.105.hb.png 01 01 JB code scl.105.int 06 10.1075/scl.105.int 1 5 5 Chapter 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 312445758 Susanne Flach Flach, Susanne Susanne Flach Universität Zürich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/312445758 2 A01 01 JB code 736445759 Martin Hilpert Hilpert, Martin Martin Hilpert Université de Neuchâtel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/736445759 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.p1 06 10.1075/scl.105.p1 7 Section header 2 01 04 New perspectives New perspectives 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.01mik 06 10.1075/scl.105.01mik 8 39 32 Chapter 3 01 04 Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle Competing future constructions and the Complexity Principle 01 04 A contrastive outlook A contrastive outlook 1 A01 01 JB code 312445760 Olaf Mikkelsen Mikkelsen, Olaf Olaf Mikkelsen Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/312445760 2 A01 01 JB code 547445761 Stefan Hartmann Hartmann, Stefan Stefan Hartmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/547445761 01 eng 30 00 This paper presents a contrastive study on the role of syntactic complexity in the choice between different future constructions in English and Norwegian. Previous work on the English future alternation (BE going to vs. will) has shown that going to is preferred in syntactically complex contexts. We replicate this result for English on the basis of data from the Spoken BNC 2014. In addition, we address the question of whether this account can be generalized to another language that shows a very similar alternation, namely Norwegian (skal/vil vs. kommer til å). We use data from the Norwegian Speech Corpus (NoTa) and the BigBrother corpus, showing that syntactic complexity correlates with the shorter form skal here. We take this as an indication that the observed syntactic distribution is actually a side-effect of semantic differences and suggest possible explanations for this. 01 01 JB code scl.105.02gil 06 10.1075/scl.105.02gil 40 67 28 Chapter 4 01 04 Diachronic learner corpus research Diachronic learner corpus research 01 04 Examining learner language through the lens of time Examining learner language through the lens of time 1 A01 01 JB code 883445798 Gaëtanelle Gilquin Gilquin, Gaëtanelle Gaëtanelle Gilquin Université catholique de Louvain 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/883445798 01 eng 30 00 This paper argues for a diachronic approach to the study of learner language and provides a first exploration of the evolution of English as a foreign language over the last twenty-five years, relying on a corpus resource specifically designed for the short-term diachronic analysis of learner English. The paper describes some of the challenges involved in creating such a resource and shows how these challenges have been responded to. It then investigates a number of linguistic features, some of them taken from short-term diachronic research on native English, and highlights certain changes, underlining that these may be the consequence of natural linguistic evolution, but also of other factors characterizing the acquisition of a foreign language. 01 01 JB code scl.105.03sch 06 10.1075/scl.105.03sch 68 89 22 Chapter 5 01 04 Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English Rhoticity in Southern New Zealand English 01 04 An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database An acoustic analysis of the QuakeBox database 1 A01 01 JB code 574445799 Marco Schilk Schilk, Marco Marco Schilk University of Hildesheim 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/574445799 2 A01 01 JB code 802445800 Lena Pickert Pickert, Lena Lena Pickert University of Hildesheim 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/802445800 01 eng 30 00 Though generally considered a non-rhotic variety, New Zealand English (NZE) shows some variation in terms of rhotic vowel colouring, mainly observed in southern New Zealand speakers. The current study uses an acoustic approach to a new audio-visual database, the UC Canterbury QuakeBox (Walsh et al. 2013) to account for variation in the degree of rhotic vowel colouring in southern NZE speakers. Identifying all nurse vowels in the data of eight representative speakers with interview transcripts, auditory perception, and a Praat-based acoustic analysis, rhotic vowel colouring is subsequently rated based on third formant (F3) realization. Results show that southern speakers display rhotic vowel colouring to varying degrees. A mixed-effects model and qualitative interpretation of key speakers further suggest an age-based cline of rhoticity with younger speakers converging on the non-rhotic standard, indicating that this rhotic vowel colouring in Southern speakers may be due to resistance to dialect levelling rather than ongoing differentiation. 01 01 JB code scl.105.p2 06 10.1075/scl.105.p2 91 Section header 6 01 04 Revisiting old debates Revisiting old debates 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.04lef 06 10.1075/scl.105.04lef 92 131 40 Chapter 7 01 04 "I'm putting some salt in my sandwich". “I’m putting some salt in my sandwich”. 01 04 The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation The use of the progressive in EFL textbook conversation 1 A01 01 JB code 783445801 Elen Le Foll Le Foll, Elen Elen Le Foll Osnabrück University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/783445801 01 eng 30 00 Previous studies have claimed that the progressive is frequently over- and misrepresented in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbooks (e.g. Römer 2005). This paper compares the representation of progressives in the dialogues of nine series of secondary school EFL textbooks (43 volumes) to the Spoken BNC2014. The frequencies, morphosyntactic and functional aspects of progressive constructions, such as contraction, negation, framing and time reference, are investigated. Collostructional analysis is used to explore the lexical associations of the progressive. A number of idiosyncratic uses of the progressive in textbook conversation are highlighted and pedagogical implications discussed. In particular, key conversational discourse-structuring phrasemes in the progressive are found to be critically underrepresented. 01 01 JB code scl.105.05per 06 10.1075/scl.105.05per 132 171 40 Chapter 8 01 04 Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English Determinants of exaptation in Verb-Object predicates in the transition from Late Middle English to Early Modern English 1 A01 01 JB code 522445802 Javier Pérez-Guerra Pérez-Guerra, Javier Javier Pérez-Guerra Universidade de Vigo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/522445802 01 eng 30 00 While Verb-Object (VO) is the basic unmarked constituent order of predicates in Present-Day English, in older stages Object-Verb (OV) was the preferred option at least in certain syntactic contexts. This corpus-based study investigates OV linearisation after the loss of verb-second and focuses on morphosyntactic, processing, semantic and textual determinants of the VO/OV variation in the transition from Late Middle to Early Modern English. The findings reveal a shift from OV word order, ruled by systematic predictors in Late Middle English, to an essentially stylistic alternative in Early Modern English, when VO succeeded as the syntacticised organisation in English predicates. Also, in the later period, the postverbal slot was adapted to host constituents functioning as objects, which constitutes an illustration of exaptation. 01 01 JB code scl.105.06sch 06 10.1075/scl.105.06sch 172 195 24 Chapter 9 01 04 Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions Recent changes in spoken British English in verbal and nominal constructions 1 A01 01 JB code 610445803 Gerold Schneider Schneider, Gerold Gerold Schneider University of Zurich 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/610445803 01 eng 30 00 Starting from a data-driven approach, the current paper compares the BNC1994 spoken to the BNC2014. We first narrow down possible research questions due to differences in the compilation and transcription of the two BNC generations. Then we investigate three robustly detectable changes at the level of lexis and morphosyntax: (1) gender and class differences, (2) the increase of be- and get-passive constructions and -ing forms from the verbal domain, and (3) the increase of noun compounds from the nominal domain. We also focus on the social context in which linguistic changes are embedded: which noun compounds particularly increase; which words are overused by which gender or social class? Technology seems to be a driver in the further advance of the construction of noun compounds, and strong swearing seems to have decreased between 1994 and 2014. 01 01 JB code scl.105.07bou 06 10.1075/scl.105.07bou 196 225 30 Chapter 10 01 04 "Oh yeah, one more thing: It's gonna be huge." “Oh yeah, one more thing: It’s gonna be huge.” 01 04 On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing On the use of oh yeah in journalistic writing 1 A01 01 JB code 303445804 Samuel Bourgeois Bourgeois, Samuel Samuel Bourgeois Université de Neuchâtel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/303445804 01 eng 30 00 This paper investigates the use of oh yeah in written prose found in American journalistic articles using corpus data. It demonstrates that such uses are a recent phenomenon that have risen in frequency starting at end of the 20th century. These new written functions are adapted to the written medium, but still resemble how oh yeah is used in speech. These developments contribute further insights to the changes occurring in journalistic writing. Furthermore, this paper concentrates on how oh yeah is adapted into journalistic writing to inject an interpersonal flair into the articles in which it is used. The timing of these developments also indicates a later wave of change to journalism that has been until now under-discussed. 01 01 JB code scl.105.p3 06 10.1075/scl.105.p3 227 Section header 11 01 04 Refinements & innovations Refinements & innovations 01 eng 01 01 JB code scl.105.08dyk 06 10.1075/scl.105.08dyk 228 255 28 Chapter 12 01 04 Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis Retrieving Twitter argumentation with corpus queries and discourse analysis 1 A01 01 JB code 554445769 Nathan Dykes Dykes, Nathan Nathan Dykes Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/554445769 2 A01 01 JB code 806445770 Philipp Heinrich Heinrich, Philipp Philipp Heinrich Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/806445770 3 A01 01 JB code 195445771 Stephanie Evert Evert, Stephanie Stephanie Evert Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/195445771 01 eng 30 00 We propose a corpus linguistic approach for retrieving argumentation from tweets about Brexit. We analyse two corpora, one from before the referendum in 2016 and one from early 2019. Our approach is based on the manual development of morphosyntactic corpus queries (in CQP syntax) that target specific argumentation patterns. For the present corpora we have developed 130 queries targeting 34 logical formulae. The paper showcases the query development and presents quantitative and qualitative results on how Brexit-related arguments have changed on Twitter from 2016 to 2019. 01 01 JB code scl.105.09gri 06 10.1075/scl.105.09gri 256 283 28 Chapter 13 01 04 MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies MuPDAR for corpus-based learner and variety studies 01 04 Two (more) suggestions for improvement Two (more) suggestions for improvement 1 A01 01 JB code 86445772 Stefan Th. Gries Gries, Stefan Th. Stefan Th. Gries University of California/Justus Liebig University Giessen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/86445772 01 eng 30 00 Corpus-based studies of learner language and (especially) English varieties have become more quantitative in nature and increasingly use regression-based methods and classifiers such as classification trees, random forests, etc. One recent development that is becoming more widely used is the MuPDAR (Multifactorial Prediction and Deviation Analysis using Regressions) approach of Gries and Deshors (2014) and Gries and Adelman (2014). This approach attempts to improve on traditional regression- or tree-based approaches by, firstly, training a model/classifier on the reference speakers (often native speakers in learner corpus studies or British English speakers in variety studies), then, secondly, using this model/classifier to predict what such a reference speaker would produce in the situation the target speaker is in (often non-native speakers or indigenized-variety speakers). The third step then consists of determining whether the target speakers made a canonical choice or not and explore that variability with a second regression model or classifier. The present paper is a follow-up to Gries and Deshors’s (2020) and offers additional answers to a variety of questions that readers and audiences to MuPDAR presentations have been raising for a few years. First, I show how MuPDAR can be extended straightforwardly to alternations that involve more than the typically used binary choices; I do so in a way that also addresses another potential challenge and exemplify this with a case study from varieties research. Second, I outline a casewise-similarity approach towards predicting what reference speakers would do that avoids frequent regression modeling problems and exemplify, as well as compare, it to competing alternatives with a case study from learner corpus research. 01 01 JB code scl.105.10keh 06 10.1075/scl.105.10keh 284 317 34 Chapter 14 01 04 A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis 1 A01 01 JB code 9445805 Andrew Kehoe Kehoe, Andrew Andrew Kehoe Birmingham City University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/9445805 2 A01 01 JB code 269445806 Matt Gee Gee, Matt Matt Gee Birmingham City University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/269445806 3 A01 01 JB code 549445807 Antoinette Renouf Renouf, Antoinette Antoinette Renouf Birmingham City University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/549445807 01 eng 30 00 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 enquiry, our WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine produced tailored output from these resources. The system was therefore passive, requiring a word or phrase to be specified before querying the databases. The aim now is to extend the data-driven functionality to track the frequency of words in the corpus across time automatically and alert users to statistically significant change patterns. Three tests are employed to find upward and downward trends, sudden jumps in frequency, and seasonal variation. 01 01 JB code scl.105.ind 06 10.1075/scl.105.ind 318 320 3 Miscellaneous 15 01 04 Index Index 01 eng 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.105 Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20221110 C 2022 John Benjamins D 2022 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027212665 WORLD 09 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 https://jbe-platform.com 29 https://jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027256980 21 01 00 Unqualified price 02 99.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 02 83.00 GBP GB 01 00 Unqualified price 02 149.00 USD