Corpora and rhetorically informed text analysis the diverse applications of DocuScope / [edited by] David West Brown & Danielle Zawodny Wetzel, Carnegie Mellon University.

Other author Brown, David West.
Other author Zawodny Wetzel, Danielle.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
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SeriesStudies in corpus linguistics (SCL), 1388-0373 ; volume 109
Abstract "Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with corpus techniques in order to enrich our understanding of language use, variation, and history. The studies included in this volume shed light on areas as diverse as student academic writing, political discourse, and the digital humanities. These studies all make use of a dictionary-based tagger called DocuScope, which recognizes tens-of-millions of words and phrases and slots them into categories based on their rhetorical functions. While DocuScope provides a through-line that both links the studies' various analytical procedures and primes their rhetorical insights, the volume is about more than the explanatory power of a single tool. It demonstrates how rhetorically informed approaches can complement more established corpus methodologies, underscoring their combined potential"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Corpora and rhetorically informed text analysis Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023] 9789027213815
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