Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Research Methods and Current Issues -

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Auteur(s) : Collectif

Editeur : Bloomsbury 3pl

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/08/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 278

Expédition : 395

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5

ISBN : 9781350190405

Résumé :

Multi-Dimensional Analysis: Research Methods and Current Issues provides a comprehensive guide both to the statistical methods in Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) and its key elements, such as corpus building, tagging, and tools. The major goal is to explain the steps involved in the method so that readers may better understand this complex research framework and conduct MD research on their own.

Multi-Dimensional Analysis is a method that allows the researcher to describe different registers (textual varieties defined by their social use) such as academic settings, regional discourse, social media, movies, and pop songs. Through multivariate statistical techniques, MDA identifies complementary correlation groupings of dozens of variables, including variables which belong both to the grammatical and semantic domains. Such groupings are then associated with situational variables of texts like information density, orality, and narrativity to determine linguistic constructs known as dimensions of variation, which provide a scale for the comparison of a large number of texts and registers.

This book is a comprehensive research guide to MDA.

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Biographie:

Tony Berber Sardinha is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University in S?o Paulo, Brazil.
Marcia Veirano Pinto is Adjunct Professor of English at the Federal University in S?o Paulo, Brazil.

Sommaire:

Preface
Introduction, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto (S?o Paulo Catholic University, Brazil)

Part I: Understanding the principles: origins of the method, corpus design and annotation
1. Multi-dimensional analysis: a historical synopsis, Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University, USA)
2. Corpus design and representativeness, Jesse Egbert (Brigham Young University, USA)
3. Tagging and counting linguistic features for multi-dimensional analysis, Bethany Gray (Iowa State University, USA)
4. The Multi-dimensional Analysis Tagger, Andrea Nini (Aston University, UK)

Part II: Conducting an MD analysis: Quantitative and qualitative analysis
5. Multivariate statistics commonly used in multi-dimensional analysis, Pascual Cantos Gomez (University of Murcia, Spain)
6. Doing multi-dimensional analysis in SPSS, SAS and R, Jesse Egbert (Northern Arizona University, USA) and Shelley Staples (Purdue University, USA)
7. From factors to dimensions: interpreting linguistic co-ocurrence patterns, Eric Friginal (Georgia State University, USA) and Jack Hardy (Emory College of Arts and Science, USA)
8. Adding registers to a previous multi-dimensional analysis, Tony Berber Sardinha, Marcia Veirano Pinto, Carlos Kauffmann, Carolina Zuppardi and Cristina Mayer Acunzo (S?o Paulo Catholic University, Brazil)

Part III. Exploring the method
9. Examining lexical and cohesion differences in discipline specific writing using MDA, Scott A. Crossley, Kristopher Kyle and Ute R?mer (Georgia State University, USA)
10. Using Discriminate Function Analysis in multi-dimensional analysis, Marcia Veirano Pinto (S?o Paulo Catholic University, Brazil)
11. Using multidimensional analysis to detect representations of national identity, Tony Berber Sardinha (S?o Paulo Catholic University, Brazil)

Bibliography
Index