At war: Widdowson, Stubbs, Beaugrande and you

[xiaoz]

At war...

Widdowson: Corpus linguistics and CDA are linguistics misapplied
http://www.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005060405544367.pdf

Stubbs: Widdowson's criticism 'is flawed by its misinterpretation of the data, methods and central concepts of corpus linguistics.'
http://www.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005060406005696.pdf

Beaugrande: I use your text as a corpus to undertake a CDA.
http://www.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005060406015439.pdf

and now it's your turn...

 

[Haiyang Ai]

Let me read first.

 

[xujiajin]

this has been an interesting arugment.

 

[xiaoz]

Widdowson and Sinclair/Stubbs/Beaugrande characterize well the so-called strong and weak cases for the use of corpus data. Between these two poles are many milder (positive or negative) reactions to corpus data.

Mike Nelson's (2000) thesis (section 5.3.3) provides an overview of these reactions.

http://www.kielikanava.com/thesis.html

Here is an excerpt from his thesis (I also recommend this thesis to those who study collocation/colligation and semantic prosody/preference, and those who study business English using a corpus-based approach):

http://www.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005062017311812.doc

 

[patricx]

can Dr.Xiao provide the complete thesis written by Mike Nelson?
thank u very much!!!

 

[oscar3]

Thank you,Richard. I only got Dtubbs' response before you pasted them here.

 

[xiaoz]

回复：At war: Widdowson, Stubbs, Beaugrande and you

以下是引用 patricx 在 2005-7-24 19:13:19 的发言：
can Dr.Xiao provide the complete thesis written by Mike Nelson?
thank u very much!!!

Go to the link given in No 4, and click on a chapter number on the right site, you will be able to download that chapter.

 

[xujiajin]

回复: At war: Widdowson, Stubbs, Beaugrande and you

links updated.