Using a corpus to test a model of speech and thought presentation (2023)

The notion of faithfulness to an original text is one of the most important aspects in presenting others’ discourse especially in the form of direct speech (DS) and direct writing (DW). Although it is often assumed that exact words and expressions of the original discourse are used in direct discourse by non-linguists, recent studies on DS oppose the faithfulness assumptions and provide counter-examples of the word-by-word reproduction of the anterior discourse. This study, taking the notion of faithfulness and the extended faithfulness claims of direct discourse into account, shows that quoting exact words and phrases of the original does not necessarily reproduce a similar meaning. Quotations from literary reviews, which appear on covers of paperbacks, will be compared with their originals, and how speech acts and propositional contents of the original are reserved or altered in the quotations will be examined. The examples show that almost all the quotations use exact words and expressions of the original reviews. However, some quotations alter the speech-act value which the reviewer intended to convey in the original and generate different implicatures which were not found in the original. By analysing such cases in which faithfulness to the original discourse is not necessarily observed, this paper tries to elaborate upon the faithfulness claims of direct writing.

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 319-331

This primarily methodological article makes a proposition for linguistic exploration of textual resources available through the Google Scholar search engine. These resources (Google Scholar virtual corpus) are significantly larger than any existing corpus of academic writing. Google Scholar, however, was not designed for linguistic searches and special attention therefore needs to be paid to maximising its effectiveness in corpus linguistics research. The article discusses the search capacity of Google Scholar and compares the Google Scholar virtual corpus with the largest traditional corpus of written academic English, COCA – academic. Finally, the article offers a case study on the as-author-reporting verb structure (and its modifications). The study demonstrates that Google Scholar can be employed effectively in EAP research offering us new insights into reporting practices in two disciplines, Applied Linguistics and Physics, which were chosen for comparison. The benefits of using Google Scholar virtual corpus are the following: 1) wide representativeness of written academic language, 2) possibility of capturing subtle variation in academic patterns, and 3) possibility of comparing linguistic patterns across different academic fields.

Discourse, Context & Media, Volume 13, Part B, 2016, pp. 73-81

This paper reports on the discursive construction of immigrants in newspaper articles published during 2007 and 2008 in a prominent daily newspaper in Auckland, New Zealand׳s most migrant populated city. The study adopts a corpus-assisted approach to the study of discourse (Baker et al., 2008; Hardt-Mautner, 1995; Partington, 2004) and is informed by the notion of collocation analysis. Concordances containing the collocation of one of the terms migrant(s), immigrant(s), and Asians and a liquid metaphor were examined. A focus on liquid metaphors allows comparison with previous work on the use of liquid metaphors in the representation of immigrants. The analysis shows that liquid metaphors are used to construct mass immigration not only in negative ways as suggested in previous research, but that they can also be used to reflect the positive economic impact of mass immigration on New Zealand. The paper concludes by critically discussing the various factors influencing the representation of immigrants in the New Zealand context.

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, Volume 45, Issue 6, 2012, pp. 1258-1263

The rise of new service-oriented technologies drives new ways to perform interoperability between companies, even in areas not directly connected to the enterprise core business. This paper proposes a framework to model and support sustainable interoperability of parallel and concurrent negotiations among organisations acting in the same industrial market, using a service-oriented platform. The underlying complexity is to model the dynamic environment where multi-attribute and multi-participant negotiations are racing over a set of heterogeneous resources. The metaphor Interaction Abstract Machines (IAMs) is used to model the parallelism and the non-deterministic aspects of the negotiation process, and a model-driven, cloud-based, service-oriented platform is proposed to manage a sustainable interoperability of the operating environment.

Optical Materials, Volume 35, Issue 12, 2013, pp. 2389-2393

English for Specific Purposes, Volume 38, 2015, pp. 1-10

Epistemic modality is a critical yet intricate linguistic device in academic writing. In this study, we investigated the use of epistemic modality in 25 English-medium medical research articles (RAs) from a systemic functional perspective. We focused on the distribution of the value and the orientation of epistemic modality and their functions in medical RAs. The results showed that medical RA writers mostly rely on low and median values, and implicitly subjective, implicitly objective and explicitly objective orientations of epistemic modality. These findings indicate that medical RA writers tend to make claims mainly in a tentative, reserved and objective way. The findings of the study may help non-native medical RA writers to produce more acceptable medical RAs.

Procedia Computer Science, Volume 96, 2016, pp. 1647-1656

In the context of sports, coaches often have difficulty verbally explaining their advice about motor skills because they are tacit knowledge. To verbalize motor skills, coaches must understand “which part in the body” and “how” athletes must move their bodies. The objective of this study is to support coaches to notice “which part of the body” and “how” by operating the skeleton models of other athletes. We introduce our developed system that obtains the skeletons of athletes and provides an interface that coaches can manipulate. Then we experimentally evaluated its effectiveness.