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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US">you are cordially invited to a guest lecture by the
<b>Dr. Axel Bohmann</b>, <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">socio-linguist at the </span>University
of Freiburg (English Seminar), on "<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;">Adventures in Multi-dimensional
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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US">It will take place on Wednesday, <b>16.11.2022, 11:30-13:00, BIG Hörsaal
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"Quantitative Methoden in den Digital Humanities"</a>. The abstract can be found below. </span></p>
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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US">Andreas Baumann</span></p>
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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Adventures in Multi-dimensional Analysis<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Linguistic variation and change do not occur in a vacuum, but are always embedded in specific (written or oral) texts. Such texts contain a wide range of linguistic features, which themselves are
related to each other in non-random, functionally interpretable ways. Based on these two observations, the method of multi-dimensional analysis (MDA; Biber 1988) proposes to analyze textual relations through consideration of the covariance of many individual
linguistic features. The fact, for instance, that the passive voice tends to occur at relatively higher frequencies in texts which also contain high frequencies of nominalizations but comparatively low frequencies of personal pronouns, marks all three features
as related to each other in a specific way. MDA employs exploratory factor analysis (Gorsuch 2015) to describe such relations among features in interpretable ways, allowing description of different feature combinations as functionally motivated dimensions
of variation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The present talk gives a non-technical introduction to MDA and highlights its potential through a number of case studies. First, an MDA of ten corpora in the International Corpus of English (ICE; Greenbaum & Nelson 1996)
suite is used to establish dimensions of variation in English worldwide and test the importance of genre and geography in structuring this variation. Next, the predictive power of the established dimensions of variation for analyses of further features is
demonstrated on the basis of variable verb complementation with gerunds versus </span>
<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">-infinitives. Finally, the MDA method is applied to a large corpus of relatively unstructured data, the Corpus of Global Web-based English
</span><a name="ZOTERO_ITEM_CSL_CITATION_{"citationID":""><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(GloWbE; Davies & Fuchs 2015)</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, in order to better understand genre variation in the absence of detailed text category labeling.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>References:</i></span></p>
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<p class="Bibliography1"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Biber, Douglas. 1988. </span>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Variation across Speech and Writing</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Bibliography1"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Davies, Mark & Robert Fuchs. 2015. Expanding horizons in the study of World Englishes with the 1.9 billion word Global Web-based English Corpus (GloWbE).
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">English World-Wide</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> 36(1). 1–28.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Bibliography1"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gorsuch, Richard L. 2015.
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Factor analysis</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Classic edition. New York; London: Routledge.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="Bibliography1"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Greenbaum, Sidney & Gerald Nelson. 1996. The International Corpus of English (ICE) project.
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">World Englishes</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> 15(1). 3–15.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:8pt"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Baumann, A.; Mühlenbernd, R. 2022. Less of the same: modeling horror aequi and extravagance as mechanisms of negative frequency dependence in linguistic diversification.
<i>Proc. Joint Conference on Language Evolution</i>. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1590491</span><br>
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<div><span style="font-size:8pt"><span><span><span><span><span>Kolb, T. E.; Sekanina, K.; Kern, B. M.; Neidhardt, J.; Wissik, T.; Baumann, A. 2022. The ALPIN Sentiment Dictionary: Austrian Language Polarity in Newspapers. <span><i>Proc. 13th Conference on Language
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<div><span style="font-size:8pt"><span><span><span><span>Kern, B.; Baumann, A.; Kolb, T.; Sekanina, K.; Neidhardt, J. 2021. A review and cluster analysis of German polarity resources for sentiment analysis.
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