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On corpus linguistics ways

08/06/2019 by perezparedes

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 … Read more

Sinclair (2004) vs the theoreticians

19/05/2019 by perezparedes

Those who during the last decade tried to barricade the profession against the influence of corpora recycled the critical arguments of the theoreticians thirty years before, and we heard again that no corpus can be a totally accurate sample of a language, that occurrence in a corpus is no guarantee of correctness, that frequency is … Read more

What makes a good research paper?

19/02/201918/02/2019 by perezparedes

“To write a really good paper you need to make a case for its originality, significance, and rigour.” – @AnnaVignoles
— FERSA (@fersacambridge) February 18, 2019

Language is the quintessence of distributed cognition

10/05/202112/02/2019 by perezparedes

Language is the quintessence of distributed cognition. Language and usage are like the shoreline and the sea. Usage affects learning, and it affects languages, too. So, our understanding of language learning requires the detailed investigation of usage, its content, its participants, and its contexts—the micro level of human social action, interaction, and conversation, the meso level of sociocultural and educational … Read more

Brillante Elvis Costello sobre las redes sociales

19/06/2018 by perezparedes

¿Qué piensa de esta locura en torno a las redes sociales que vivimos hoy día? Han convertido el hecho de sentirse ofendido, esa indignación estúpida, en toda una industria. La gente que promueve el uso de opiáceos hasta convertirlos en una epidemia a nivel mundial tiene la misma mentalidad que los que desarrollaron estas … Read more

The act of writing is itself an exercise of thought

03/12/202528/11/2017 by perezparedes

The act of writing is itself an exercise of thought Many writers have said that they do not fully grasp their own meaning until they have carved it like a statue, using words as material. The reason is plain. One starts writing, not with a well-shaped thought, trimmed and polished, but with an intent—perhaps with … Read more