Colloquium: Douglas Biber
Douglas Biber is Regents’ Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University. The title of his talk is "Merging Corpus Linguistic and Discourse Analytic Research Goals: Discourse Units in Biology Research Articles."
| What | Colloquium |
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| When |
2008-02-01 03:10 PM
2008-02-01 04:30 PM
February 01, 2008 from 03:10 pm to 04:30 pm |
| Where | 53A Olson Hall |
| Contact Name | Tammy Gales |
| Contact Email | tgales@ucdavis.edu |
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The present study addresses the following general question: Can the goals and methods of discourse analysis be reconciled with the goals and methods of large-scale corpus-based analysis? That is, is it possible to uncover generalizable patterns of discourse organization, based on detailed analysis of individual texts but at the same time based on analysis of all texts in a corpus? The talk first briefly introduces two general approaches to this research problem: top-down and bottom-up analysis. Then, a particular framework for bottom-up corpus/discourse analysis is described, illustrated through an investigation of the patterns of discourse organization in a corpus of biology research articles.
Workshop: Feb. 1, 9-10:30 AM, "The Methods and Applications of Corpus Linguistic Research Methods"
Robert Bayley: SLA Designated Emphasis Chair