Author’s name:
Nadezhda A. Shamova
Abstract:
A broad scope of application of corpus technologies indicates their importance in applied lin-guistics. Employing the comparative-contrastive method and the method of computer analy-sis, the author seeks to compare and contrast the main corpus tools of the programs Sketch Engine, AntConc, and WordSmith Tools, focusing on texts from specialized periodicals about cinematography ‘To l F lm’ and ‘Am r c n C n m o raph r’ for 2019–2020. The primary goal of this comparison is to provide recommendations for optimal choice of tools and pro-grams for obtaining certain types of information. The author processed the total volume of texts that contained over 900,000 words, using the functions “concordance”, “word list”, “col-locations” + “word s etch”, “N-grams”, “ eywords” in Sketch Engine and AntConc (Word-Smith Tools has only “concordance”, “wordlist,” and “ eywords”). Information about specif-ic tools available in various corpora is collected and presented in a specially developed table. Different software programs described in the article have functions that perform the same tasks, but there are some differences in how data is presented. Among the software programs featured in this case study, the Sketch Engine platform gives the most options for choosing personal settings. The “concordance” function shows the word in context, “Wordlist” shows all the words on a given list with a record of their frequency in the corpus. The “collocation” function (or “word s etch”) recognizes fixed expressions, “N-grams” finds phrases that com-prise a certain number of elements, while the “ eywords” function allows users to identify words that are specific to a particular subject area. Information thus obtained from the corpora may be helpful in updating English LSP dictionaries and glossaries of cinematography. The theoretical significance of the present study lies in systematizing the material about exist-ing corpus tools, while its practical value is in using the tools of three corpus programs for the study of cinematic discourse, understood here as language used by the community of movie goers and filmmakers in their discussions of cinematography in specialized periodicals ‘To l Film’ and ‘Am r c n C n m ogr ph r’.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2021-53-1-82-95 |
| Downloads | 456 |
| Key words | corpus linguistics; specialized corpus; computer analysis; corpus tools; cinema discourse. |
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