Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean by Eleonora Esposito & Carolina Pérez-Arredondo & José Manuel Ferreiro

Author:Eleonora Esposito & Carolina Pérez-Arredondo & José Manuel Ferreiro
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319936239
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

3 Data and Methodology

3.1 Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS)

CADS is used to investigate “the form and/or function of language as communicative discourse which incorporate the use of computerised corpora in their analyses” (Partington, Duguid, & Taylor, 2013, p. 10). This methodology takes into account the context in which the language was produced rather than considering it in isolation, relying on background information and close reading as much as the data (Partington et al., 2013, p. 10). Influenced by Stubbs’ seminal work on corpus linguistics (1996, 2001), CADS aims at identifying patterns of meaning characteristic of one type of discourse which are difficult to recognise via close reading alone (Partington et al., 2013, pp. 10–11). It is assumed that meaning is created by language use. Therefore, a repeated linguistic pattern associated with one word within a specific discourse can change the meaning of this word within the context of that discourse. Hoey (2005), for instance, argues that “[a]s a word is acquired through encounters with it in speech and writing, it becomes cumulatively loaded with the contexts and co-texts in which it is encountered” (p. 8).

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