MODERN WOMENS ENGLISH PROSE AS AN OBJECT OF GENDER LINGUISTICS

Hedging as an Index of Gender Realization in Research Articles in Applied Linguistics

Despite the importance of hedging in academic productions, its use in different disciplines and genres has been given little attention (Hyland, 1998; Crystal, 1995). More precisely, the role of different genders as contributors to this social phenomenon (i.e., research articles) has been taken as neutral, as if gender is inconsequential in identity construction. The studies done in English sugg...

Prose Generation from Expert Systems: An Applied Computational Linguistics Approach

refined in an iterative, incremental fashion. Even when a satisfactory draft evolves, an author frequently makes minor changes on each reading of the paper, particularly if the author sets the manuscript aside between readings. Compared to the manual process of writing a paper, the process of creating a computer program to generate prose can be even more frustrating and complex, particularly if...

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

The Time Dimension in Modern English Corpus Linguistics

The corpus-based analysis of modern English tends to focus on language which has been written or spoken at a particular point in time, and a corpus is conventionally set up as synchronic entity. A synchronic study is often entirely appropriate, but language is a changing phenomenon, and linguists are also interested in that dimension: curious to trace an earlier language feature through to the ...

Maximal Lengths of Repeat in English Prose

We investigate the maximal length of repeat as a function of the text length in ten English texts. The maximal length of repeat in the experimental data is greater than a power of the logarithm of the text length where the exponent is close to 2. This result indicates that English prose cannot be modeled by a finite-energy stochastic process, differently than we have previously assumed.