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Class: Friday 15h00, Chemicum 213
Office hours: 10h00-15h00 Monday and Thursday 10-18h00, via zoom
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NEW - the results of your discourse analysis are below. I can't login to USOS to get your emails to let you know. I am trying to find solution to that.
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Introduction
How do we understand each other? How do we know what words mean? How do we shape the experienced world? Meaning, or the symbolic representation of thought, is arguably fundamental not only to language but to all human society and civilization. Semantics is the scientific study of the structure of meaning in language. Discourse is the pragmatic use of how we express that meaning. This course examines the different ways that linguists try to answer fundamental questions about meaning structure and construction. Rather than focusing on the theories, the course seeks to encourage the students to ask questions themselves about how meaning is structured and how that structure is employed. To these ends, the course largely practical and asks the students to perform their own analyses and collect their own data.
Objectives
a. Understand the principle theories of how meaning is structured and expressed.
b. Propose hypotheses that explain how meaning is structured and expressed.
c. Collect data and perform a design an experiment to test those hypotheses.
d. Interpret results of the experiment and report them in a scientific manner.
Slides
Semantics Report 1 - 2024-2025: Tough vs hard
Report Instructions - step by step guide to what is expected
Stylesheet - please use this style sheet, it is based on the most widely used style sheet for linguistics i
R-commands for Chi2 - just download and you can run the r commands step by step, super easy
R-commands for MCA - of you wnat to play with something more interesting than a Chi2
Video 1 - Xtab - How to make cross tabulation (copy the URL to download)
Video 2 - Chi2 - How to do Chi2 and interpret results (copy the URL to download)
Discourse Report 2 - 2024-2025
Results of analysis / annotation - NEW !!!!!
Attitude Coding Schema summary
Reading - Semantics
For grammatical semantics - Bresenan et al 2005 - Example of BPA for syntax
For lexical semantics - Glynn 2016 - Example of BPA to polysemy
For lexical semantics – Kilgariff 1997 - NLP and Polysemy
OLD FROM PREVIOUS YEARS
Extracting data - Here is a video showing you how to extract the data :
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/Data_Extraction_Explanation_UAM.mov
Concordance and KWIC software - Here is the link for AntConc
LiveJournal Corpora
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/LJ_US_2012.zip (Kyryl, Piotr)
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/LJ_US_2006.zip (Olivia, Julia)
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/LJ_UK_2012.zip (Franek, Pawel)
http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/LJ_UK_2006.zip (Hanifi)
From last Year
Attitude_Schema from Martin and White
Analysis Instructions - step by step guide to the analysis
Report Instructions - step by step guide to what is expected
Stylesheet - please use this style sheet, it is based on the most widely used style sheet for linguistics
R-commands for Chi2 - just download and you can run the r commands step by step, super easy
R-commands for MCA - of you wnat to play with something more interesting than a Chi2
Video 1 - Xtab - How to make cross tabulation (copy the URL to download)
Video 2 - Chi2 - How to do Chi2 and interpret results (copy the URL to download)
Data for Discourse: Women's Magazines
Reading - Discourse
For discourse - Read & Carroll 2010 - Annotating Appraisal
From Previous Years - for reference only
Spreadsheet for analysis and examples 2021-2022
Data 2022-2023
Coding shema 2022-2023
OLD Lexical Semantics UAM
Data Semantics 2023-2024 - coding / analysis
Annotation results 2023-2024 - Here are the results of your hard work concatenated
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