3531022 American Literature
| Numbering Code | U-LET19 23531 LJ36 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Intensive, First semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | special lecture | |
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| Language | English | Day/Period | Intensive | |
| Instructor name | IYEIRI YOKO (Graduate School of Letters Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course |
この授業は、客員教授のMarianne Hundt先生（チューリッヒ大学）が担当の予定です。COVID-19の感染状況等により来日ができなくなった場合には、内容や使用言語等が変更になる可能性があります。 While the core grammar of standard and standardising World Englishes (WEs) is shared, it is not a monolithic entity, but one that shows variability. Moreover, language-internal factors of variation interact with factors like text type (news vs. academic writing) or mode (speech vs. writing). From the late 1970s, WEs research has worked towards a systematic description of this diverse range of Englishes and their variable grammars. From around 1995 onwards, with the advent of computer corpora specifically compiled for the purpose of comparing (standard/acrolectal) varieties of English in their spoken and written form and across a common set of text categories, research into WEs has increasingly been corpus-based. Recently, research into WEs has further drawn on insights from construction grammar (CxG) for the study of constructions on a cline from highly idiomatic to more abstract (e.g. Goldberg 1995, 2006; Hoffmann 2021). The seminar will draw on material from the International Corpus of English (ICE, see Greenbaum 1996). The ICE components are standard one-million-word reference corpora of first- and second-language varieties of English sampling both spoken and written material. On the basis of a case study – get-constructions – students will learn how to proceed from a topic via a specific research question to data extraction, annotation and analysis to statistical modelling of the variable grammar(s). Step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions on data retrieval and statistical analysis will be given during the course. |
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| Course Goals | The goal of the course is to provide a hands-on approach to practical research with corpus data from a standard corpus of WEs. Students will learn how to define the variable context (on the basis of theoretical literature), how to operationalise this for the purposes of data retrieval, and how to analyse the data with a view to the research question(s) formulated at the beginning of the seminar. They will learn to interpret the findings against the theoretical model, i.e. CxG, and reflect on variation found across WEs in the constructional network. | |||
| Schedule and Contents |
1. Introduction 2. Background on Construction Grammar 3. Get-constructions in World Englishes 4. From Topic to RQ(s) 5. Defining the linguistic variable(s) 6. Retrieving data on get-constructions from ICE 7. Annotating get-constructions and inter-annotator reliability 8. Descriptive statistics 9. Definition of predictor variables for multi-factorial analysis 10. Annotation of data for predictor variables 11. Background on multifactorial analysis (trees and forests) 12. Hands-on application of RF and tree analyses 13. Model validation and interpretation 14. Models and modelling: integrating theory and quantitative research results 15. Discussion of the results |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
attendance/class contribution 20%, data analyses 30%, report (write-up of findings) 50% |
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| Course Requirements | Active participation in discussions, data retrieval and analysis. | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Data retrieval and analysis. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Course materials (PDFs) will be provided ahead of the seminar. | ||
| References, etc. |
Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure, Adele Goldberg, (Chicago University Press, 1995) Constructions at Work. The Nature of Generalizations in Language, Adele Goldberg, (OUP, 2006) Comparing English Worldwide: The International Corpus of English, Sidney Hoffmann (ed.), (Clarendon Press, 1996) The Cognitive Foundation of Post-colonial Englishes: Construction Grammar as the Cognitive Theory for the Dynamic Model, Thomas Hoffmann, (CUP, 2021) The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics, Douglas Biber and Randi Reppen (eds.), (CUP, 2015) The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes, Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt, Edgar Schneider (eds.), (CUP, 2020) |
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