STYLISTICS
Hunston 109-23; 128-34
pp. 109-123
LGBT parents / children:
SLTrib /
DesNews
1. Briefly summarize (1-2
sentences) each of the studies mentioned on page 110.
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Teubert:
Euro-scepticism
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Flowerdew: Hong-Kong English
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Fairclough: New Labour Party
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Morrison-Love: Zimbabwe "people"
2. How do these studies differ
from what we've done to this point?
3. Are they primarily
qualitative or quantitative?
4. What tools could best to
used to carry out such studies?
5. Briefly describe the type
of qualitative studies carried out by Stubbs (pp 117-120)
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Stubbs:
X close factories, etc
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Stubbs:
unemployed / unemployment
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Stubbs:
single parent families /unwed / unmarried mothers
Other searches:
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family: collocates
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intellectual(s)
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man|woman + collocates
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words for women
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words for
African-Americans over time
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words for
"handicapped" (older term) over time
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nationalities
(German, China, French, Canada (??))
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COHA:
language
change and culture
Other possible
topics:
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Recent: Church's
policy on LGBT parents and their children
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(Law) Religion,
Supreme Court, immigration
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COHA: women, religion, food, fast, etc
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Evangelical vs
Catholic vs LDS
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Democratic vs
Republican
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Hansard Corpus
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Google Books
(Standard); Culturomics (readings)
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+/- abortion
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others??
Word clouds:
General Conference (another)
(1970-present)
Reagan vs Trump
Inauguration (another)
Obama:
State of the Union (+ response)
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