Towards a Corpus-Attested Definition of Creativity as Accessed through a Subtextual Analysis of Student Writing

Milojkovic, Marija; Louw, Bill

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“…The very first line will be particularly significant, because, according to Louw, first lines reveal prospection (Louw and Milojkovic, 2015; see also Milojkovic and Louw, 2016 for a study of prospection in English non-native academic essays). Prospection is the quality of subtext (it is, as explained above, the most frequent lexical variables of a grammar string, recoverable in the reference corpus) to point at later developments in texts.…”

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“…Unlike the discipline of stylistics, which has accepted Louw's innovations (Simpson, 2014), corpus linguistics has so far produced only very flawed and bafflingly incompetent descriptions of semantic prosody alone. Leaving aside the still uncorrected view presented by McEnery and Hardie (2012), Dominic Stewart's book (2010) is a good illustration of how a linguist, without proper awareness of the importance of context, handles the 'concept' of semantic prosody. Corpus linguists may have been misunderstanding the scope and impact of semantic prosody (SP) due to the fact that they are not, broadly speaking, stylisticians: they are unused to the detailed study of a particular text.…”

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A Corpus-Attested View of Business English Metaphors

Milojkovic¹

EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics

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Louw's (2009) idea to create a corpus-attested dictionary of literary terms may initially involve analysing uncontested examples of irony, antithesis and the like, in corpus terms. The paper analyses non-literal expressions in a Guardian business text against the background of the corpus-attested definition of metaphor, arrived at through the detailed analysis of two metaphors in Yeats's 'The Circus Animals' Desertion' by means of Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory (CPT) . Given that the delexical expressions in the Guardian text are not meant to convey any meanings other than explicit, and that their relexicalisation may be achieved only through other delexical expressions, the paper suggests that they be called delexical rather than metaphorical. PreambleLouw (2009) calls for a corpus-attested glossary of literary terms. While the realisation of this idea is certainly overdue at a time when reference corpora may be held to achieve the proper degree of balance and representativeness, certain issues need clarifying before actual research is presented and defended by argumentation.Contextual Prosodic Theory, developed by Louw, is a rounded theory that takes into account both lexis and grammar. While its beginnings go back to Sinclair's work in Cobuild, and he was the first to notice both the phenomena of delexicalisation and semantic prosody, Louw's efforts have always been aimed at interpreting a particular stretch of text against the backdrop of reference corpora, and in this way have brought about the beginning of corpus stylistics as a discipline. This approach demands great sensitivity as it deals with contextual nuances on a scale that does not seem achievable in the fields of corpus linguistics and computational linguistics generally. The large scale of the big data cannot be analysed without perpetual contact with the small, and sometimes minute, scale of contexts, both inside the studied text and in the reference corpus, where each instantiation of a pattern will have its contextual justification. The work is so delicate that perfection does not seem achievable; yet, the

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