Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish
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René Venegas
Abstract
Recent studies on Spanish oriented to describe specialised and multi-register corpora have been carried out using diverse corpus methodologies, such as multi-dimensional analysis. This chapter presents two studies based on the written academic PUCV-2006 Corpus of Spanish. Both employ the five dimensions (i.e. Contextual and Interactive Focus, Narrative Focus, Commitment Focus, Modalising Focus, and Informational Focus) identified by Parodi (2005a). Each of these dimensions emerged out of the functional interpretation of co-ocurrent lexicogrammatical features identified through a multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis. In the first study, we calculate linguistic density across the five dimensions that provide a lexicogrammatical description of the nine academic genres that compose the corpora. In the second study, we compare the PUCV-2006 Corpus with four corpora from other different registers. The findings confirm the specialised nature of the genres in the PUCV-2006 Corpus, where both a strong lexicogrammatical compactness of meanings and a regulation emphasis of the degree to which certainty is manifested are strongly expressed.
Abstract
Recent studies on Spanish oriented to describe specialised and multi-register corpora have been carried out using diverse corpus methodologies, such as multi-dimensional analysis. This chapter presents two studies based on the written academic PUCV-2006 Corpus of Spanish. Both employ the five dimensions (i.e. Contextual and Interactive Focus, Narrative Focus, Commitment Focus, Modalising Focus, and Informational Focus) identified by Parodi (2005a). Each of these dimensions emerged out of the functional interpretation of co-ocurrent lexicogrammatical features identified through a multi-dimensional and multi-register analysis. In the first study, we calculate linguistic density across the five dimensions that provide a lexicogrammatical description of the nine academic genres that compose the corpora. In the second study, we compare the PUCV-2006 Corpus with four corpora from other different registers. The findings confirm the specialised nature of the genres in the PUCV-2006 Corpus, where both a strong lexicogrammatical compactness of meanings and a regulation emphasis of the degree to which certainty is manifested are strongly expressed.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- About the authors xi
- Introduction 1
- Acknowledgments 5
- Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
- Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
- Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
- Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
- Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
- Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
- Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
- Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
- Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
- Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
- Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
- Chapter 12. Corollary 233
- References 239
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- About the authors xi
- Introduction 1
- Acknowledgments 5
- Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
- Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
- Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
- Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
- Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
- Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
- Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
- Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
- Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
- Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
- Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
- Chapter 12. Corollary 233
- References 239
- Index 253
