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Digital Data in English Linguistics: Language in Politics
Course description
The language used in political texts is directed towards a clearer audience than what we find in literary texts and the general attitudes and the current intentions of the author are usually also relatively clear. This makes this text type particularly apt for formal semantic and pragmatic study.
In this course, students will explore central concepts of pragmatics, such as implicatures, presuppositions, and politeness on the basis of real-live texts of political content, including speeches, tweets, blog contributions and others. We will address topics such as gender-inclusive language use, stereotypes, "dog-whistles" and others. The participants will define a research question and pursue it in the form of a small corpus-based project.
This course runs in parallel to a course on "Language and politics" at the University Mainz (lecturer: Ulrike Schneider). The participants of the two courses will present their work in a joint Mainz-Frankfurt Student workshop "Research in English Linguistics" which will take place February 15, 2020. Participation in this workshop is a mandatory course requirement.
Registration:
By e-mail to the lecturer: sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Olat course: to be announced
BYU corpora
BYU corpora: https://corpus.byu.edu
Page to visit for registration: https://corpus.byu.edu/academic_license_password.asp Enter the following information:
- Organization: IEAS
- Password: (same as the olat password for this course)
COCA tutorials
- Mark Davies' youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9ZzUKjxhcaitp4o98PbbA
- Introduction. Searching basics, display basics (20min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCLgRTlxG0Y
- COCA Bites channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy84tTzeJ0s8JLjf_wEiWUQ
- Series of videos by Kylie Moore: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR6W-iIBZmmi1ZObAYQZjZQ/featured
- Series of videos on TheGrammarLab: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL39Kisoscb82UsJPhWS0Yw
- Stevie Daniels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ggTftZFjC8
- BYU tutorial on Bill's English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmRaS7d-SP8
- Spanish screencast on phrasal verbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m49Fzmsl5S8
BNC
BNCWeb: http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk
Freely usable after registration!
Help with the query language: http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/bncwebXML/Simple_query_language.pdf
BNCWeb tutorials
- Search tips for BNCWeb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQJvwQG5kc&list=PLCAyWhRTMOO4rZgbQ6C3veSHRs5GlI0Mv&index=10
- More general searches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNkgm1zo-A&list=PLCAyWhRTMOO4rZgbQ6C3veSHRs5GlI0Mv&index=9
Semantics boot camp
- Read the following sections from Chapter 2 of Levine et al (ms):
- For help and illustration, work through the online material for Chapter 2.
- For practice, work through the online exercises for Chapter 2.