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  • 3 - Comparing Approaches to (Sub-)Register Variation

  • from Part II - Selection, Calibration and Preparation of Corpus Data
  • Edited by Ole Schützler, Universität Leipzig, Julia Schlüter
  • Book:
    Data and Methods in Corpus Linguistics
    Published online:
    06 May 2022
    Print publication:
    26 May 2022, pp 75-100

  • Summary

    Two methods are applied to detect differences between corpus (sub )registers, exemplified by the press editorials sections in the British, Canadian and Jamaican components of the International Corpus of English. By design, these methods are apt to target differences between varieties that are represented by putatively comparable corpus material, but it turns out that many of the observed differences can in fact be laid at the door of different sampling strategies applied by corpus compilers. In the example at hand, contrasts can be traced back to the division into institutional and personal editorials. This finding gives rise to a call for a higher granularity of sampling schemes, richer metadata (e.g. on the situational characteristics of the language samples included), and better documentation. As for the methods chosen, the author demonstrates that corpus-driven profiling based either on POS monograms or on higher-level multi-dimensional analysis performs reasonably well, with smaller differences in robustness and computational expense.