CATMA (Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis) is a practical and intuitive tool for text researchers. In CATMA users can combine the hermeneutic, ‘undogmatic’ and the digital, taxonomy based approach to text and corpora—as a single researcher, or in real-time collaboration with other team members.
Category: corpus linguistics
Improving Writing Through Corpora
Online Data-Driven Learning SPOC “Improving Writing Through Corpora” is now live at the following address:
https://edge.edx.org/courses/course-v1:UQx+SLATx+2019/about
Improvements in Version 2 include:
A) All course images and functionality have been updated for the ‘new’ Sketch Engine interface.
B) New functions specific to the ‘new’ Sketch Engine interface are now included in the course (e.g. Good Dictionary EXamples (GDEX))
C) Course is now completely self-contained – no need for external assessments. Certificates of completion generated automatically upon completion of online activities.
D) Improved reflective component and opportunities for peer discussion.
The course is primarily pitched at L2 graduate writing students, but anyone is eligible, whether a student, lecturer, or anyone with an interest in language and technology.
To enrol, follow the instructions at the link provided. Please contact the course creator Dr. Peter Crosthwaite at p.cros@uq.edu.au with any questions or technical problems.
Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs
Si solo fuera pan y circo: la construcción de la realidad en los medios
La influencia que los medios de comunicación ejercen sobre nuestros hábitos, creencias y opiniones es, desgraciadamente, enorme. Aceptar que lo que se nos muestra ES la realidad supone menoscabar nuestra propia capacidad crítica y regalar a estos medios, y a sus intereses económicos y agendas, la forma en la que como individuos aceptamos y entendemos nuestra vida y en el entorno en el que se desarrolla.
Uno intuye el nivel de degradación ética que esconden estos medios y que intentan enterrar con políticas de supuesta responsabilidad social etc.
El artículo de Carla Wright demuestra claramente cómo los medios no informan sobre la realidad, sino que la construyen. Y lo hacen subiéndose en las espaldas de los que más sufren y menos capacidad tienen para cuestionar las prácticas de estos medios.
Es difícil mantener la integridad en un entorno corrupto donde el silencio sanciona la hez en la que chapotean medios de comunicación, tradicionales y nuevos.
Lourdes Ortega: ethics, politics & research
Malta, Doctoral Summer School 14 June, 2019
What is a bilingual individual?
Knowledge worth knowing to whom, for what purposes, in whose interest? (Ortega, 2019)
QUAN research can also adopt an ethical stand.
Train yourself in statistics that allow you to bypass fixed idea of native/non-nativeness.
Research design can be ethical and political.
Use research discourse for affirmation not for failure.
On corpus linguistics ways
Q: How much should a discourse analyst know before he or she engages in corpus work?
A: I don’t agree with the presupposition. No discourse analyst needs to know anything doing Corpus Linguistics. What they need (for either) is an open mind, a willingness to learn, to take risks, to make mistakes, to ask for help or find it for themselves. There is not just one way of slicing bread, and the CL ways of slicing it are not necessarily superior to non-CL ways.
Mike Scott, Viana, Zyngier & Barnbrook (2011: 218)