1st Edition

Modeling Metalinguistic Discourses and Language Ideologies

112 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

112 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of corpus linguistic approaches to the study of metalinguistic discourses and language ideologies. The book traces the historical trajectories of research on language ideology and metalinguistic discourse, respectively, as a foundation for exploring both the opportunities and challenges of classic corpus linguistic approaches as applied to data sets... Read more

1. Introduction

1.1 What is this volume about and who is it for?
1.2 Why this volume?

2. Metalinguistic discourse, language ideology, and the evolution of methodological approaches
2.1 Definitions
2.2 Qualitative research
2.3 Quantitative and mixed-methods research

3. Classic corpus linguistic tools: Case study #1
3.1 Frequency
3.2 Collocation analysis
3.3 Concordance analysis
3.4 Keyword analysis

4. Multivariate corpus linguistic approaches
4.1 Exploratory factor analysis and cluster analysis: Case study #2
4.2 Topic modeling for triangulation: Case study #3
4.3 Topic modeling for exploration
4.3.1 Thematically heterogeneous corpora: Case study #4
4.3.2 Thematically homogeneous subcorpora (immigration): Case study #5
4.3.2 Thematically homogeneous subcorpora (language): Case study #6

5. Challenges and lessons learned
5.1 Theoretical issues
5.2 Methodological challenges

6. Epilogue

Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Index