Taming the corpus : from inflection and lexis to interpretation /: from inflection and lexis to interpretation. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Masako Fidler, Václav Cvrček, editors.
• Other Names: Fidler, Masako; Cvrček, Václav
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; A Quantitative-Qualitative Dichotomy; Why the Use of Corpus and Quantitative Methods?; Taming the Corpus; References; Part I: Words, Rhymes, and Grammatical Forms; Chapter 2: Do Users' Reading Skills and Difficulty Ratings for Texts Affect Choices and Evaluations?; Introduction; Background; Corpus Data; The Czech National Corpus; Using Corpus Data in Surveys; Methodology; Results; Between-Subjects Variables; Results of Production Task; Results of Evaluation Task; Masculine Genitive Singular {a} vs. {u}; Masculine Locative Singular {ě/e} vs. {u} Feminine Genitive Singular {i} vs. {ě/e}Significant Factors in Common; Discussion; Avoiding Type I Errors; Explaining Variations in Ratings; Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: Vowel Disharmony in Czech Words and Stems; Introduction: Vowel Harmony and Disharmony; Data; Method; Description; Example: Hungarian; Results; Words; Stems; Variability Across Datasets; Explanation; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Morphological Richness of Text; Introduction; Methodology; Corpus; Text Length; Results; Genres; Authorship Analysis; Conclusion; Appendix; List of Texts Used for the Genre Analysis List of Texts Used for the Authorship AnalysisReferences; Chapter 5: A Collocation-Driven Method of Discovering Rhymes (in Czech, English, and French Poetry); Introduction; Related Work; Data; Method; Training Set; Learning; Results; Conclusions and Future Work; References; Part II: Not Only "Lost" in Translation; Chapter 6: Prominent POS-Grams and n-Grams in Translated Czech in the Mirror of the English Source Texts; Introduction; Translations into Czech; Why and How to Study Translated Czech; Corpus-Based Approach to Translations; The Birth of Corpus-Based Translation Studies Language of Translation and Translation UniversalsTwo Main Perspectives on the Features of Translated Language; Previous Research on Translated Czech; Methodology and Data; Multi-Word Combinations and POS-Grams in Cross-Linguistic Studies; Data; Analysis of Prominent POS-Grams in Translated Czech; Conjunction-Verb-Pronoun-Verb (J-V-P-V); Pronoun-Preposition-Pronoun-Verb (P-R-P-V); Conjunction-Verb-Pronoun-Noun (J-V-P-N); Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Revolution with a "Human" Face: A Corpus Approach to the Semantics of Czech Lidskost; Introduction Prague Spring (1968) and the Velvet Revolution (1989)The Semantic Field of Lidskost; English Translations; A Corpus Approach to Investigating the Semantics of Lidskost and Related Words; The Semantics of Lidstvo, Lidství, and Lidskost; Lidstvo; Lidství; Lidskost; Historical Data for Lidskost; Treq and KonText Data for Lidskost; SYN2015 Collocational Data for Lidskost; The Adjective lidský and the Adverb lidsky; The Antonym Nelidskost; Summary; Václav Havel's "Politics and Conscience"; KWords Analysis of the Czech Text; Comparison of the Czech and English Versions of the Text
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 410.188; Statistics; Linguistics; Corpora (Linguistics); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Foreign Language Study -- Slavic Languages (Other); Linguistics; Corpora (Linguistics); Slavic languages; Social Science -- Statistics; Social research & statistics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319980171; 3319980173
• Related ISBNs: 9783319980164; 3319980165
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 14, 2018).
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