https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485 University of Suffolk, Ipswich, Sat Nov 26 en-us 2016-11-26 10:57:03 UTC 2026-02-09 07:31:17 UTC hello@padlet.com johnxwilliams1 https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139961655 The corpus consists of the officially disclosed emails. 7570 docs sent by HRC, but also messages sent to her. Can be found on Dept of State FOI site. Also a more sophisticated interface on WikiLeaks. WSJ has the pdfs. 

Emails are mostly very boring & routine. A lot of redacted material, sometimes the whole message. Can cause problems for pdf conversion. Also other clean-up issues, repetition in email chains etc. Issues over different designations for same person. 

Potential research areas:
- Gender
- Seniority/Position
- Inner & Outer Circles

Timestamp info can be significant for analysing power relations.

]]> 2016-11-26 11:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139961655 johnxwilliams1 https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139963210 Comes from a background in US then UK journalism.

Involved in projects concerned with:
- migrant voice in UK: Lexis/Nexis corpus of 3000+ articles, focus on 'quotes' from various participants
- obesity metaphors in personal narratives

Methodology called Critical Assessment Analysis (involves voice, stance, framing, positioning, participant roles...)

Migrant quotes may be 'neutral' in themselves but framed in a non-neutral way: "Migrants were served a three-course dinner, chickpeas in a lamb jus". Journalists in direct contact with migrants tended to be more sympathetic.
 
Obesity metaphors: seen as military opponent, crime, journey....

Nice aphorism about journalistic practice: "If it bleeds, it leads".]]> 2016-11-26 11:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139963210 johnxwilliams1 https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139964539 Adverbs are a relative Cinderella in CL.

PPP used LINDSEI corpus of NNS interviews + LOCNEC comparison corpus (extended version) of NS interviews

Interviews consist of several different tasks. Different LINDSEI tasks show different frequencies of adverb use for NNS (more so than for NS?). In general NS use more adverbs. 

Discussion focused mainly on 'describing a picture' task, and on adverbs expressing certainty. 

In picture task, interviewer share of interview was greater for NS. 

Certainty adverbs: 'obviously' is most frequent for NS, 'really' for NNS. (Low frequency of 'obviously' is striking.) Different pragmatic/semantic uses of all adverbs are differently distributed.

Significant national differences on Biber's interactivity rating. Spanish most interactive





]]> 2016-11-26 12:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139964539 johnxwilliams1 https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139968681 'Qualitative framing analysis' - type of DA about how an issue is problematized and implications for policy. Usually restricted to small samples.

UK newspaper corpus of 1412 articles (485,186 words), both local and national press.

Notion of 'keywords' common to CL and QFA. QFA 'frame matrix' was applied to concordances of top 100 keywords.

The main frames were recovery, stigma, economy (eg. working days lost). The 'recovery' frame was more salient in local press, where the press may be closer to people involved in MH and patients.]]> 2016-11-26 14:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139968681 johnxwilliams1 https://padlet.com/johnxwilliams1/1dfjhe7hk485/wish/139970458 Twitter Essay: Series of connected tweets by the same user, often chained to each other in a visible way.
Corpus of 6000+ tweets mentioning 'Twitter essay'
Seems to be a mainly US genre by well-known authors & journalists.
People often apologize for using the genre, as if violating some communicative maxim.
Essays can have a dogmatic or 'manifesto' tone, partly due to the constraints on the genre.
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