Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Corpus Analysis of the Grammatical Categories’ Constituents in Fiction Texts Considering the Linguo-Regional Component

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Corpus Analysis of the Grammatical Categories’ Constituents in Fiction Texts Considering the Linguo-Regional Component

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2020 13 (12)
Authors: Gorozhanov, Alexey I.; Guseynova, Innara A.
Contact information: Gorozhanov, Alexey I.: Moscow State Linguistic University Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0003-2280-1282; Guseynova, Innara A.: Moscow State Linguistic University Moscow, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-6544-699X
Keywords: corpus analysis; grammatical categories; special software; linguo-regional component; cross-cultural communication; digitalization; German language; Kafka; regular expressions
Abstract: The problem of insufficient development of professional digital tools in the humanities, including linguistics, is posed. The results of a long-term study on the development of specialized software for corpus analysis of a foreign language text, in which the regional component plays an important role, are described. On the example of Franz Kafka’s novel “Das Schloss” the work of three computer programs is demonstrated, including primary text processing, automatized markup of a small special (grammatical) corpus, a combined search for selected constituents of the grammatical categories of certainty / uncertainty, modality, as well as individual grammatical phenomena by markers of the marked up corpus and by regular expressions in case of the not marked up text, considering the regional characteristics of spelling. It is concluded that the maximum effectiveness of research of this kind can be achieved with the active work of an expert with a specially developed software product. Moreover, the expert’s task includes not only professional software management, but also active participation directly in its development. The described analysis model can be used to analyze the categorical spectrum of a foreign language text, as well as to compile didactic materials for teaching foreign languages and translation.
Pages: 2035–2048
DOI: 10.17516/1997-1370-0702
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/137867

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