Hic sunt dracones
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Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Abstract
While the field of learner corpus research has made a great deal of progress since its advent some thirty years ago, there are still areas that remain to be explored. In this chapter, two such areas, related to temporal evolution, are demarcated. The first one is diachronic learner corpus research, which considers the possible evolution of learner language through time, as a result of changes in the typical acquisitional context or in the norms that learners depend on, for example. The second one is process learner corpus research, which uses screencasting and keyboard logging to examine the evolution of learner texts during the writing process and to gain insights into learners’ competence on that basis. These areas require new types of learner corpora, some of which are introduced and tested through small case studies. Preliminary results confirm the relevance of diachronic learner corpus research and process learner corpus research and thus underline the dynamic nature of learner language, which changes and evolves in many different ways and at many different levels.
Abstract
While the field of learner corpus research has made a great deal of progress since its advent some thirty years ago, there are still areas that remain to be explored. In this chapter, two such areas, related to temporal evolution, are demarcated. The first one is diachronic learner corpus research, which considers the possible evolution of learner language through time, as a result of changes in the typical acquisitional context or in the norms that learners depend on, for example. The second one is process learner corpus research, which uses screencasting and keyboard logging to examine the evolution of learner texts during the writing process and to gain insights into learners’ competence on that basis. These areas require new types of learner corpora, some of which are introduced and tested through small case studies. Preliminary results confirm the relevance of diachronic learner corpus research and process learner corpus research and thus underline the dynamic nature of learner language, which changes and evolves in many different ways and at many different levels.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
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I Meaning in time and space
- Digital discourse and its discontents 9
- Text, intertext and meaning 37
- Hic sunt dracones 65
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II Variation in time
- Presenting knowledge of the world 89
- Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing 113
- A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19th-century British grammars 133
- Construing justice 173
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III Variation in space
- Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether 203
- Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change 231
- There’s different types 257
- Academic prose across countries 283
- A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States 321
- Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars 351
- The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus 377
- Index 403
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Introduction 1
-
I Meaning in time and space
- Digital discourse and its discontents 9
- Text, intertext and meaning 37
- Hic sunt dracones 65
-
II Variation in time
- Presenting knowledge of the world 89
- Interpreting the world of late modern English medical writing 113
- A corpus-based analysis of grammarians’ references in 19th-century British grammars 133
- Construing justice 173
-
III Variation in space
- Variation in the complementiser choice between if and whether 203
- Using intensifier-adjective collocations to investigate mechanisms of change 231
- There’s different types 257
- Academic prose across countries 283
- A corpus-based study of metadiscoursal boosters in applied linguistics dissertations written in Thailand and in the United States 321
- Patterns and meanings of hedging verbs in English-medium research articles by Chinese and Western scholars 351
- The EMI campus as site and source for a multimodal corpus 377
- Index 403
