Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
7 Investigating thematic choices in two newspaper genres: A methodological proposal
Choice in Language - Applications in Text Analysis - Gerard O'Grady
Julia Lavid [+]
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Julia Lavid is full profesor of English Language and Linguistics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research interests cover a wide range of topics related to the functional analysis of English (often in comparison with Spanish and other European languages), using computational and corpus-based methodologies. She has published extensively on these topics, being the author of the book Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías: nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI (Madrid, Cátedra, 2005), and coauthor of the research monograph Systemic-Functional Grammar of Spanish: a Contrastive Account with English (London: Continuum, 2010). In her lecture she discusses theoretical and methodological issues related to her most recent research on contrastive corpus annotation methodologies.
Jorge Arús Hita [+]
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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Jorge Arús Hita is senior lecturer in English language and linguistics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Lara Moratón
Description
This chapter investigates the linguistic phenomenon of thematization in two newspaper genres using an empirical methodology which combines a preliminary corpus analysis with a number of corpus annotation tasks, as proposed and developed within the CONTRANOT project.