Corpus genre categories
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Daniel Ocic Ihrmark
Abstract
This chapter highlights genre categorizations as a pitfall at the intersection of corpus linguistics and literature and problematizes the use of the genre category from the perspectives afforded by both fields. The intention is for the paper to argue for a more explicit communication of our genre categorization practices, and by doing so suggest ways of avoiding miscommunication and confusion due to the genre term being understood differently within different disciplines and backgrounds. The conclusion is that the wider categorizations used, such as novel or short story, are likely to be the most practical, and that studies wanting to sub-categorize further using the genre term should instead apply it according to their specific needs accompanied by explicit discussion of the implementation.
Abstract
This chapter highlights genre categorizations as a pitfall at the intersection of corpus linguistics and literature and problematizes the use of the genre category from the perspectives afforded by both fields. The intention is for the paper to argue for a more explicit communication of our genre categorization practices, and by doing so suggest ways of avoiding miscommunication and confusion due to the genre term being understood differently within different disciplines and backgrounds. The conclusion is that the wider categorizations used, such as novel or short story, are likely to be the most practical, and that studies wanting to sub-categorize further using the genre term should instead apply it according to their specific needs accompanied by explicit discussion of the implementation.
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- From fallacies and pitfalls to solutions and future directions 1
- Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical corpus linguistics 9
- Named entities as potentially problematic items in corpora 35
- Challenges in the compilation, annotation, and analysis of learner corpus data 55
- Early newspapers as data for corpus linguistics (and Digital Humanities) 68
- Open Corpus Linguistics – or How to overcome common problems in dealing with corpus data by adopting open research practices 89
- Text length and short texts 106
- Corpus genre categories 126
- Modeling fine-grained sociolinguistic variation 142
- Subject index 171
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- From fallacies and pitfalls to solutions and future directions 1
- Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical corpus linguistics 9
- Named entities as potentially problematic items in corpora 35
- Challenges in the compilation, annotation, and analysis of learner corpus data 55
- Early newspapers as data for corpus linguistics (and Digital Humanities) 68
- Open Corpus Linguistics – or How to overcome common problems in dealing with corpus data by adopting open research practices 89
- Text length and short texts 106
- Corpus genre categories 126
- Modeling fine-grained sociolinguistic variation 142
- Subject index 171
