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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
wiley   +1 more source

The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-127, February 2024.
This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post‐Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post‐c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan)
Benjamin Savill
wiley   +1 more source

Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Recent years have seen an increase in data and method reflection in corpus-based discourse analysis. In this article, we first take stock of some of the issues arising from such reflection (covering concepts such as triangulation, objectivity ...
Monika Bednarek, M. Schweinberger, Kelvin K. H. Lee   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gunmen, Bandits and Ransom Demanders: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study of the Construction of Abduction in the Nigerian Press

Corpus-based Studies across Humanities
Abduction has recently become a security threat bedevilling Nigeria. This corpus-assisted critical discourse study examines news reports published by selected English-medium Nigerian newspapers from 2020 to 2022 on abduction, to understand how abduction ...
Ayo Osisanwo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recent trends in corpus design and reporting: A methodological synthesis

Research in Corpus Linguistics
Methodological design is a central issue for researchers in corpus linguistics. To understand trends in the reporting of important aspects of corpus design and the type of corpora being used in corpus linguistics research articles better, this study ...
Brett Hashimoto, Kyra Nelson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Corpus linguistics meets historical linguistics and construction grammar: how far have we come, and where do we go from here?

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
This paper aims to give an overview of corpus-based research that investigates processes of language change from the theoretical perspective of Construction Grammar.
Martin Hilpert
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A corpus-assisted approach to discursive news values analysis

Research in Corpus Linguistics
The main aim of this paper is the elaboration of an analytical tool for comparative studies. For this purpose, I used a combination of Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) and Corpus Linguistics (CL) to analyse a corpus of British Broadsheets’ news ...
Arash Javadinejad
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Detecting emerging vocabulary in a large corpus of Italian tweets

Research in Corpus Linguistics
This exploratory study investigates lexical change and innovation in contemporary Italian micro-blogging using a corpus of 5.32 million timestamped and geotagged tweets sampled from the 2022 Italian Twitter timeline.
Stefania Spina, Paolo Brasolin, Greta H. Franzini   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Constructions and representations of Chinese identity through England’s curatorial imagination: A corpus-assisted analysis

Research in Corpus Linguistics
This article explores the linguistic representation of Chinese identity in art exhibitions across England in the period immediately following the Umbrella Revolution.
JJ Chan, Mathew Gillings
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Wikidata and the bibliography of life. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Page RDM.
europepmc   +1 more source