刊讯｜SSCI 期刊 《国际语料库语言学杂志》2024年1-2期

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volume 29, Issue 1-2, 2024

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics（SSCI一区， 2023 IF：1.6，排名：68/194）2024年1-2期共发文13篇，其中研究性论文9篇，书评4篇。研究论文涉及颜色词的隐喻多义、语料库搭配抽取、变化点的研究、反向频率效应、语料库变化建模等方面。欢迎转发扩散！

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目录

ARTICLES

Issue1

■ Metaphorical polysemy of the Chinese color term hēi 黑 “black”A corpus-based cognitive semantic analysis with Behavioral Profiles, by Meichun Liu, Jinmeng Dou, Pages 1–33.

■ Concordancing for CADS Practical challenges and theoretical implications, by Mathew Gillings, Pages 34-58.

■ Dynamic Usage-based Principles in the Development of L2 Finnish Evaluative Constructions, by Sirkku Lesonen, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Minna Suni, Marjolijn Verspoor, Pages 442–472.

■Association measures for collocation extraction Automatic evaluation on a large-scale corpus, by Qi Su, Chen Gu,  Pengyuan Liu , Pages 59-86.

■Keywords of the manosphere, by Mark McGlashan,  Alexandra Krendel, Pages 87-115.

■Review of Viana (2022): Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book, by Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Pages116 - 122.

■Review of Dunn (2022): Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics, by Hanna Schmück1, Pages123 - 129.

Issue2

■Pinpointing prescriptive impact Using change point analysis for the study of prescriptivism at the idiolectal level , by Beth Malory, Pages 131-154.

■The inverse frequency effect An exploratory study, by David Temperley, Pages 155-188.

■Political framing of Covid-19 From metaphor to moral panic, by  Ariana N Mohammadi , Pages 189 - 212.

■Advancing Sino-Philippine linguistics and sociolinguistics using the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp)A multilingual, POS-tagged, and audio-textual databank, by Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Pages 213-257.

■Modeling the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese A corpus-based study, by Mengmin Xu, Fuyin Li, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi , Pages 258-285.

■ Review of Flach & Hilpert (2022): Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics: New approaches to variability and change, by   Kristen Fleckenstein, Pages 286-290.

■Review of Durrant (2023): Corpus linguistics for writing development, by Joyce Lim , Pages 291-295.

摘要

Metaphorical polysemy of the Chinese color term hēi 黑 “black”A corpus-based cognitive semantic analysis with Behavioral Profiles

Meichun Liu, Department of City University of Hong Kong.

Jinmeng Dou, Department of City University of Hong Kong。

Abstract This paper reports a corpus-based, cognitive semantic study on profiling the varied uses of the Chinese color term hēi 黑 “black” with regard to its metaphorical polysemy. We hypothesize that the semantic (dis)similarities among the eight metaphorical meanings of hēi “black” can be captured by clustering their contextual features, including collocational patterns, morphosyntactic and semantic properties, and discourse information. The Behavioral Profiles approach is adopted for the analyses with the annotations of 800 instances for 46 contextual features and a hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis conducted on the annotated data. The results show that the eight metaphorical senses of hēi “black” fall into three clusters. This clustering can be explained by the conceptual bases pertaining to color perceptions and color changes, in line with Conceptual Metaphor Theory. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the corpus-based Behavioral Profiles approach in exploring the underlying cognitive mechanisms of metaphorical extensions and meaning differentiations.

Key words basic color terms, Behavioral Profiles, cluster analysis, Mandarin Chinese, metaphorical polysemy

Concordancing for CADS Practical challenges and theoretical implications

Mathew Gillings, Department of Lancaster University

Abstract Concordances are a staple tool in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS), as they are in corpus linguistics generally. Regular readers of this journal are unlikely to need a primer, so we will give only the briefest of recaps. To be able to see hundreds of occurrences of a search word together with their co-text provides a powerful shortcut for identifying patterns of usage. These patterns may be syntactic or semantic – or most likely a combination of both, in cases where certain structures coincide with certain shades of meaning. In conjunction with other tools that corpus linguistic software generally provides, we can use concordances to draw up specific profiles of lexical items and gauge the role that they play in certain discourses.

Association measures for collocation extraction Automatic evaluation on a large-scale corpus

Qi Su,  Department of Peking University.

Chen Gu,  Department of Peking University.

Abstract In this study, we propose a new evaluation scheme to assess the strengths and limitations of collocation extraction measures and explore type-sensitive methods for extracting collocations. We introduced the pooling strategy widely used in Information Retrieval and automated the evaluation process using online dictionaries. Sixteen well-known metrics are evaluated based on their effectiveness and then distributional and linguistic compared. The results show that Group A methods (e.g. z-score, Dice, PMI) are more effective in extracting low-frequency collocations with relatively small extraction scales. In contrast, Group B methods (e.g. t-test, LMI, LLR) perform better at finding high-frequency collocations, most of which outperform Group A methods as the extraction scale increases. Moreover, Group A prefers NN collocations, while Group B identifies collocations with a wide range of syntactic structures. This study provides suggestions for studies to identify hybrid extraction methods as well as for language educators and dictionary compilers.

Key words association measure, collocation extraction, evaluation, pooling, statistical metrics

Keywords of the manosphere

Mark McGlashan, Department of Birmingham City University.

Alexandra Krendel, Department of University of Southampton: Southampton.

Abstract This paper examines language used in five of the largest manosphere communities on Reddit (r/TheRedPill, r/braincels, r/MensRights, r/seduction, and r/MGTOW) to identify idiosyncratic language use within these communities. To do so, a novel methodology which combines key-key-word analysis with notions from set theory was used to identify and compare keywords between corpora and to find keywords that are used uniquely within – and thus are distinctive to – these five separate communities. The paper achieves the following: it (i) presents a novel method for identifying what we term ‘complement keywords’ (keywords that are not shared between multiple different corpora when compared against the same reference corpus), and (ii) explores idiosyncratic language use in five separate manosphere communities. The analysis first examines interdiscursive relationships between communities emerging from the complement keywords identified before discussing community-specific preoccupations emergent in the idiosyncratic language use found in these five communities.

Key words complement keywords, corpus-based discourse analysis, key-key-words, keywords; manosphere

Pinpointing prescriptive impact Using change point analysis for the study of prescriptivism at the idiolectal level  

Beth Malory, Department of Lancaster University.

Abstract This paper presents a single-author case study which demonstrates that the statistical modelling technique change point analysis (CPA) can provide compelling evidence of prescriptive impact at an idiolectal level. It has been hypothesized that Late Modern English review periodicals consistently pushed a prescriptive agenda, and that this impacted language use (McIntosh, 1998; Percy, 2009). A lack of empirical research has, however, left these claims unsubstantiated, partly because evaluating prescriptivist endeavours has proven challenging. Using a purpose-built 3-million-token idiolectal corpus spanning 7 decades, this paper reports that it is possible to discern a striking change in usage. Use of CPA enables this change to be located precisely, and correlated to the author’s exposure to a prescriptive review of her work. In demonstrating how effectively CPA can provide a sophisticated correlation indicative of causality, this paper showcases the suitability of this technique to the study of prescriptivism.

Key words change point analysis, idiolect, Late Modern English, modelling; prescriptivism

The inverse frequency effect An exploratory study

David Temperley, Department of Eastman School of Music.

Abstract Rare syntactic constructions show an especially strong tendency to be repeated, but some rare constructions exhibit this tendency much more strongly than others. The reasons for this variation are not well understood. This exploratory study examines five rare noun-phrase (NP) expansions in English: <the A> (the rich), <a Nprop Nprop> (a Bob Gates), sing Nprop Nprop> (architect Julia Morgan), pl Nsing> (the jobs data), and sing A Nsing> (home electronic equipment). Repetition tendencies are very strong in the first and second of these and somewhat strong in the third; in the fourth and fifth they are much weaker, only slightly higher than those of common NP expansions such as sing> (the black dog). To explain this variation, we suggest that constructions may be associated with different types of discourse: constructions with high repetition tendencies tend to occur in persuasive rather than informative discourse.

Key words coordination, discourse, inverse frequency effect,  parallelism, priming

Political framing of Covid-19 From metaphor to moral panic

Ariana N Mohammadi, Department of Linguistics Consultancy Center of Canada.

Abstract The present study is a corpus-based discourse analysis of the metaphorical framing of Covid-19 in American political discourse. Drawing on data from a corpus of the White House briefings and statements, the study investigates the corpus profile of war and virus and illustrates how the Coronavirus is primarily represented as an enemy to go to war with, rather than a public health crisis to control and mitigate. The study further situates the militaristic framing of Covid-19 within the theoretical framework of moral panic and examines the discursive features that ultimately bridge the metaphorical representation of the pandemic and the construction of moral panic. The study points to nuanced discourse strategies used in the White House press briefings that reconstruct the enemy and regroup the Coronavirus with other so-called enemies of the United States, such as the Communists, as well as the Islamic radicals and the Latin gangs and cartels.

Key words  American political discourse, discourse of legitimization, hegemonic discourse, moral panic, war metaphor

Advancing Sino-Philippine linguistics and sociolinguistics using the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp)A multilingual, POS-tagged, and audio-textual databank

Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Department of Hong Kong  University.

Abstract This paper introduces the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp), a public 375,000-word collection of raw and transcribed recordings of Lannang languages spoken in metropolitan Manila, which have been annotated with part-of-speech tags and linked to 40 types of sociolinguistic metadata. It begins by providing an overview of the LanCorp (e.g. design, formats, accessibility). Then, it goes on to show various examples of how the corpus can be used for variationist sociolinguistic research, using Lánnang-uè data as a case study. The findings from the exploratory studies indicate that Lannang languages are influenced by sociolinguistic factors, demonstrating the intricate nature of the Sino-Philippine sociolinguistic ecology. Due to its large size, sociolinguistic metadata, and various formats, LanCorp can be used to study Lannang languages in general and how they are used by specific social groups. It enables scholars to investigate multilingual interactions in a wide range of sociolinguistic factors, furthering the field of Sino-Philippine (socio)linguistics.

Key words  computational methods for analyzing multilingual phenomena, language documentation through corpora, language variation and change, mixed language and multilingual corpora, Sino-Philippine sociolinguistics

Modeling the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese A corpus-based study

Mengmin Xu, Department of China University of Petroleum

Abstract The current study investigates the probabilistic conditioning of the Mandarin locative alternation. We adopt a corpus-based multivariate approach to analyze 2,836 observations of locative variants from a large Chinese corpus and annotated manually for various language-internal and language-external constraints. Multivariate modeling reveals that the Mandarin locative alternation is not only influenced by semantic predictors like affectedness and telicity, but also by previously unexplored syntactic and language-external constraints, such as complexity and animacy of locatum and location, accessibility of locatum, pronominality, definiteness of location, length ratio and register. Notably, the effects of affectedness, definiteness and pronominality are broadly parallel in both the Mandarin locative alternation and its English counterpart. We thus contribute to theorizing in corpus-based variationist linguistics by uncovering the probabilistic grammar of the locative alternation in Mandarin Chinese, and by identifying the constraints that may be universal across languages.

Key words conditional random forest, corpus-based variationist linguistics, locative alternation, Mandarin Chinese, mixed-effects logistic regression

期刊简介

The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics. The journal has a major reviews section publishing book reviews as well as corpus and software reviews. The language of the journal is English, but contributions are also invited on studies of languages other than English. IJCL occasionally publishes special issues. All contributions are peer-reviewed.

《国际语料库语言学杂志》 (IJCL) 发表原创研究，涵盖语料库语言学各个领域的方法论、应用和理论工作。通过对实证语言研究的关注，IJCL提供了一个呈现语言学各个领域新发现和创新方法的论坛，包括词汇学、语法、话语分析、文体学、社会语言学、形态学、对比语言学，应用语言学（语言教学、司法语言学）以及翻译研究。IJCL立足于语料库方法论，还欢迎语料库和计算语言学之间的接口研究。该期刊亦设评论板块，出版书评以及语料库和软件评论。该期刊主要研究英语，但也欢迎英语以外其他语言的研究。IJCL不定期出版特刊。所有出版文章都经过同行评审。

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