[Corpora-List] looking for spacial metaphors

Fri May 6 00:09:02 UTC 2011

>>From Google Books (American books dataset; 155 **billion** words):

285,342 tokens, 33 types for "preposition + Internet" (top results = of 102468, for 39495, in 34214, on 22085)
772,579 tokens, 45 types for "preposition + the + Internet" (top results = on 329826, of 172917, from 43319, via 36636, through 25682, in 24057)

(Note: the 155 billion words Google Books corpus will be released next week, using more or less the same interface as the other corpora from http://corpus.byu.edu)

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>>From COCA (http://corpus.byu.edu/coca); 425 million words, 1990-2011:

2995 tokens, 34 types for "preposition + Internet": http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=10133470
12,859 tokens, 42 types for "preposition + the + Internet": http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/?c=coca&q=10133477

Best,

Mark Davies

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From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Eric Atwell [csc6ea at leeds.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 4:27 PM
To: Ilze Black
Cc: corpora at uib.no
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] looking for spacial metaphors

Ilze,

a starting point could be to collect corpus evidence of the prepositions
used with "internet" (and similar terms) in a range of languages. For
this, you could use Serge Sharoff's Querying Internet Corpora website
http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/internet.html

  - you can query large web-corpora of 13 languages, looking for
    collocates with a given PoS-tag. For example, prepositions
with "internet" for English:

Collocation     Joint   Freq1   Freq2   LL score        Concordance
via internet    10      16738           8.77    Examples
with internet   84      1004574                 8.74    Examples
for internet    104     1597989                 4.97    Examples
about internet  30      350787          3.28    Examples
on internet     68      1109319                 2.51    Examples
of internet     222     4658360                 1.34    Examples
against internet        5       67629           0.37    Examples
through internet        8       130426          0.29    Examples
over internet   9       157134          0.23    Examples
without internet        4       80007           0.04    Examples

compared to, for example, Italian:

su internet     947     207279          1776.05         Examples
via internet    240     83931           387.79  Examples
attraverso internet     126     43705           203.57  Examples
ad internet     206     309169          187.39  Examples
tramite internet        85      11838           175.70  Examples
in internet     383     1834798                 154.12  Examples
da internet     183     803566          79.17   Examples
di internet     388     4773196                 33.50   Examples
a internet      115     1856391                 3.46    Examples
contro internet         10      85763           1.83    Examples
con internet    53      890519          1.27    Examples
per internet    78      1533484                 0.53    Examples

It's up to you to identify the interesting conclusions!

good luck,

Eric Atwell, Leeds University

On Thu, 5 May 2011, Ilze Black wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I am a PhD student and quite new to this list but I hope you dont mind
> me asking for help here. I have just started my research on spacial
> perception of the Internet. In my initial phase I am trying to establish
> if there are any relevant study been done on a similar questions and in
> particular on any spacial metaphors. In English we often say 'on' the
> Internet, while in Latvia, for example, they say 'in' the Internet. What
> drives these linguistic metaphors? May be someone has some suggestion on
> previous ethnographic studies, method I am thinking to use. Or other
> methodology or models I should look at? Does anyone has any thoughts on
> this? I am also looking to collect spacial metaphors used of the
> Internet space in different languages. Would love to hear your thoughts,
> suggestions and metaphors.
> Thank you in advance and looking forward to hear.
>
> Ilze Black
> black at eecs.qmul.ac.uk
>
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