[Corpora-List] Formality of domains in Media English texts

[Georgios Mikros]

Hi Ying,

you may check the paper written by Francis Heylighen & Jean-Marc Dewaele
(1999) (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.30.6280
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.30.6280&rep=rep1&t
ype=pdf> &rep=rep1&type=pdf) which contains a simple formula (based on
frequencies of Part-of-Speech tags) that ranks documents based on their
formality.

Best

George Mikros

 

 

 

 

 

From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
Ying LIU
Sent: Friday, 17 January, 2014 5:21 AM
To: Corpora at uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] Formality of domains in Media English texts

 

Dear all,

 

I am doing a corpus study of English media texts. These texts are
subcategorized into five domains: arts and culture, business, editorial,
newsreport and social life. I want to put these five domains into a
continuum from the least formal to the most formal so that my analysis of
linguistic features can be based on it. It is assumed that the order will be
from social life or arts and culture, via newsreport, to editorial and
business. But it is only an assumption. Is there any way to prove this or
any relevant literature to discuss this? Any suggestions will be welcome.
Many thanks.

 

Best regards,

Ying LIU

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