Based on Hank´s Corpus Pattern Analysis (CPA)
Acced the data here.
Category: corpus linguistics
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)
Sinclair (2004) vs the theoreticians
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 not a sound guide to importance, that there are inexplicable gaps in the coverage of any corpus, however large, etc.
That flurry of resistance is now largely behind us, and it is timely to consider the issue posed as the title of this book, how to use corpora in language teaching, since corpora are now part of the resources that more and more teachers expect to have access to.
Sinclair (2004: 2)
Sinclair, J. (2004). How to use corpora in language teaching. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.