Applying corpus methods to written academic texts: Explorations of MICUSP

被引:27
作者
Roemer, Ute [1 ]
Wulff, Stefanie [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 USA
[2] Univ North Texas, Denton, TX 76203 USA
关键词
MICUSP; student academiic writing; corpus analysis; attended/unattended this; disciplinary variation;
D O I
10.17239/jowr-2010.02.02.2
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Based on explorations of the Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP), the present paper provides an introduction to the central techniques in corpus analysis, including the creation and examination of word lists, keyword lists, concordances, and cluster Mists. It also presents a MICUSP-based case study of the demonstrative pronoun this and the distrilbution and use of its attended and unattended forms in different disciplinary subsets of the corpus. The paper aims to demonstrate how corpus linguistiics and corpus methods can contribute to writing research and provide fruitful insights into student academic writing.
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页数:29
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