Digital ethnography: Principles and practice
Digital ethnography: Principles and practice
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数字民族志:原理与实践
作者:
D. Alinejad
scholars who do not wish to compromise on theoretical features and analytical tools. Menzel presents a very careful and thoughtful comparison of ellipsis in cohesive ties in an English-German corpus. She notes the difficulty in finding comparable text types and results and notes the need to manually transcribe spoken data. Shagalov and Fine work through clinical interviews of speakers with schizophrenia and mania, annotate and analyze the corpus using the UAM CorpusTool, and develop 46 linguistic variables to determine the “best subset” of combinations of variables which can more accurately classify the language of speakers with schizophrenia or mania. The importance of this kind of work for clinical diagnosis is made clear. Perhaps due to the large number of chapters (21 including the introduction) and likely constraints on space, some chapters lacked detailed analyses and discussions. Nevertheless, as a whole, the volume will appeal to a wide range of researchers in discourse analysis due to the variety in content, computational methodologies, and corpus tools. There is also a fairly broad spectrum of SFL concepts and analytical levels and frameworks covered, including lexicogrammar, register, method of development, multimodality, genre, appraisal, and cohesion. One area of work that might have been included, however, is O’Halloran’s (2015) work on “multimodal digital humanities.” For those new to SFL theory, most chapters do not require too much background in the theory. A theme particularly evident in the latter part of the volume is that there remain challenges in developing and adapting computational linguistic tools to text analysis from an SFL perspective because of the multifunctional nature of the lexicogrammar and the meaning-based focus of the theory.