23.585, Qs: Applying Corpus Models to Presidential Debate

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Subject: 23.585, Qs: Applying Corpus Models to Presidential Debate

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Date: 02-Feb-2012
From: Enas Qazan [enasqaysabid at yahoo.com]
Subject: Applying Corpus Models to Presidential Debate


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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:26:37
From: Enas Qazan [enasqaysabid at yahoo.com]
Subject: Applying Corpus Models to Presidential Debate

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-585.html&submissionid=4540029&topicid=8&msgnumber=1
 I'm a Masters student analyzing the discourse of the 2008 presidential 
debates. My thesis is ''Textual and contextual analysis of presidential 
debates.'' I plan to apply four models on  my corpus (those by Halliday 
and Hasan, Dresseler and  de Beaugrande, and Sinclair and 
Coulthard, for analysing textuality and Van Dijk for analysing 
contextuality). The model adopted is to be eclectic. It is heavily based 
on Sinclair and Coulthard 1975 but there is an interdisciplinary relation 
among the three. Sinclair and Coulthard will be adapted and modified 
to be applicable for analysing such kind of discourse. I am curious to 
know if there is anything I should be aware of before applying the 
models, or if you have any suggestions on how to proceed.

Thank you. 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


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