Taming the Corpus

Bridges the gap between the qualitative and quantitative text analyses by using grammar found in the Czech language as a crucial source of investigation

Demonstrates ways in which grammatical markers besides lexis play a crucial role in discourse

Provides quantitative studies of texts in a diverse area of the Czech culture

Autorentext

Masako Fidler received her PhD in Slavic Linguistics at UCLA. She is currently a Professor of Slavic Slavic Studies at Brown University. Fidler's research areas are comparative linguistics, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics. Her most current research involves corpus-assisted text analysis of Czech using statistical applications developed at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus at Charles University in Prague. This is a collaborative project with Václav Cvrek at the Institute of the Czech National Corpus at Charles University in Prague.

Václav Cvrek received his PhD in Mathematical and Corpus Linguistics at Charles University. He is currently the Deputy Chair of the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and Associate Professor at Charles University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, quantitative linguistics, and corpus-assisted discourse studies.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Do users' reading skills and difficulty ratings for texts affect choices and evaluations?- Chapter 3. Vowel Disharmony in Czech Words and Stems.- Chapter 4. Morphological Richness of Text.- Chapter 5. Collocation-driven method of discerning rhymes (in Czech, English, and French poetry).- Chapter 6. Prominent POS-grams and n-grams in translated Czech in the mirror of the English source texts.- Chapter 7. Revolution with a Human Face: A Corpus Approach to the Semantics of Czech lidskost.- Chapter 8. Keeping and bearing arms in Czech.- Chapter 9. Image of politicians and gender in Czech daily newspapers.- Chapter 10. Going beyond aboutness: A quantitative analysis of Sputnik Czech Republic