Concordancing oneself: constructing individual textual profiles
Concordancing oneself: constructing individual textual profiles
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自我协调:构建个人文本配置文件
DOI:
10.1075/ijcl.9.2.06con
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发表时间:
2004
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1
通讯作者:
David Coniam
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作者:
David Coniam
This paper discusses the construction and analysis of a corpus of an individual's own academic writing. Following an examination of the area of academic writing and the position of academic writing corpora within it, the paper discusses how a "personal corpus" might be put together, along with issues of the necessary quality and quantity of "text", and problems which may arise in the construction of a personal corpus. The paper also proposes a background, general "reference" corpus against which features of academic writing may be measured, whilst admitting that accessibility to, or production of, such a potentially large corpus will generally be beyond the means of many researchers interested in small-scale analyses. Using concordancers, some limited analyses of lexical, syntactic and discourse features are then presented to show how a potential personal profile might emerge. The paper concludes with a discussion of the limitations facing the analysis of one's own writing, but suggests that, despite limitations, worthwhile insights can be gained in respect of one's personal language awareness.