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A corpus-based, computational approach to language and emotions in CORIECOR

Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma (Universidad de Extremadura)

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The interface between language and emotion has received considerable research attention in the field of linguistics, as illustrated by the number of works on the subject (cf. e.g. Baider & Cislaru 2014). However, as Bednarek (2008: 6) rightly highlights, “there is, as yet, not unified theory of affect or emotion, and instead we find a range of at times widely differing approaches to the expression of emotion in general”. That is the case of emotion studies in the context of transnational migration, a recent field that has gained popularity among researchers specially interested in exploring “the meaning and functionality of migrant letters as vehicles for nurturing and (re)negotiating family relations and personal networks altered by migration, and for expressing emotions in contexts of migration” (Borges and Cancian, 2016: 282). The aim of this paper, then, is to examine the potential of corpus-based computational linguistics for the study of emotional talk in CORIECOR, the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (McCafferty and Amador-Moreno, in preparation). For this purpose, a methodological procedure based on the identification, compilation and inspection of mental verbs and their corresponding projection structures (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004) is proposed and conducted using the Corpus Query Language (CQL) function on Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al. 2004). The findings obtained from the study show that such a corpus-based computational analysis offers several advantages. Methodologically, the first advantage lies in the possibility of quantifying the occurrence of the emotional terms under examination, that is, comparing the frequency and usage of mental verbs in the Irish emigrants’ letters. The second advantage offered by a corpus-based approach has to do with the horizontal reading of the results. In this sense, the qualitative inspection of the linguistic structures identified will be of paramount importance to understand and explain the spectrum of knowing and unknowing or, as Halliday and Matthiessen (2004: 206) put it, “the representation of the content of consciousness” in the letters under analysis.

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Serie: CILC2021: Lingüística computacional basada en corpus / Corpus-based computational linguistics (+información)