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Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope
Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 109] 2023
► pp. 25–40

Introduction and overview to the volume

 | Carnegie Mellon University
 | University of Lethbridge
 | Carnegie Mellon University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Dictionary-based taggers and DocuScope
  • 3.The uses and misuses of dictionaries
  • 4.DocuScope, rhetoric, and composition
  • 5.DocuScope and rhetorical problem-solving
    • 5.1Metacognitive knowledge
    • 5.2Critical discourse knowledge
    • 5.3Discourse community values
    • 5.4Genre knowledge
    • 5.5Substantive knowledge
    • 5.6Communication task processes
  • References
Published online: 29 June 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.109.02bro
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