Modeling Metalinguistic Discourses and Language Ideologies

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of corpus linguistics approaches to the study of metalinguistic discourses and language ideologies.

List of contents

1. Introduction
1.1 What is this volume about and who is it for?
1.2 Why this volume?
2. Metalinguistic discourse, language ideology, and the evolution of methodological approaches
2.1 Definitions
2.2 Qualitative research
2.3 Quantitative and mixed-methods research
3. Classic corpus linguistic tools: Case study #1
3.1 Frequency
3.2 Collocation analysis
3.3 Concordance analysis
3.4 Keyword analysis
4. Multivariate corpus linguistic approaches
4.1 Exploratory factor analysis and cluster analysis: Case study #2
4.2 Topic modeling for triangulation: Case study #3
4.3 Topic modeling for exploration
4.3.1 Thematically heterogeneous corpora: Case study #4
4.3.2 Thematically homogeneous subcorpora (immigration): Case study #5
4.3.2 Thematically homogeneous subcorpora (language): Case study #6
5. Challenges and lessons learned
5.1 Theoretical issues
5.2 Methodological challenges
6. Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Index

About the author

Adnan Ajši¿ is Associate Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.

Product details

• Authors: Adnan Ajsic, Adnan Ajšić
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781041086246
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4108624-6
• No. of pages: 106
• Series: Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics