Martin Warren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Warren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Warren |
| SIGNATURE | WARREN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6363-6936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Researcher commentary on Warren (2013): The prevalence and forms of intertextuality
Indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness made clearer
The ability to do indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness is a key component in the repertoire of all competent discoursers and these are commonplace phenomena in written and spoken discourses, particularly in conversations. The study reported in the paper seeks to delineate and exemplify these three terms which are used frequently in the literature, but which are potentially confusing as they are not always unambiguously defined and consisten…
Do collocational frameworks have local grammars
This study extends the theory of local grammars by making the case that local grammars can also be employed to better and more fully describe the patterns of co-selection found in collocational frameworks (Renouf & Sinclair 1991). The term collocational framework was originally used to describe the co-selection of two grammatical words which frame an intervening lexical word. In the present study a more inclusive definition is adopted and the num…
Collocation
Evidence from corpus linguistics studies shows that single words do not create meaning. Meaning comes from the co‐selections of words. The field of corpus linguistics has contributed significantly to our understanding of the extensive patterning to be found in language, by which is meant the variety of ways in which speakers and writers co‐select words which combine to make meanings. One of the patterns of co‐selection is collocation and, in term…
Corpora: Specialized
In corpus linguistics, there is a distinction made between general corpora and specialized corpora.
Uncovering the Extent of the Phraseological Tendency: Towards a Systematic Analysis of Concgrams
This paper offers an analytical procedure for identifying phraseological variation within ‘concgrams’ (Cheng et al. 2006), which are sets of words that co-occur regardless of constituency variation (e.g. AB and A * B), positional variation (e.g. AB and BA), or both. It argues that examining concgrams takes us closer to more fully appreciating and understanding the idiom principle (Sinclair 1987) which underpins the claim that phraseology is at th…
Checking Understandings: Comparing Textbooks and a Corpus of Spoken English in Hong Kong
Two interactional strategies explicitly taught to learners of English in Hong Kong are how to check that the hearer understands what you are saying as you communicate and, conversely, how to check that you have understood another speaker's message. The forms of these strategies that are taught in Hong Kong schools are fairly limited. This study seeks, through examining authentic spoken discourse in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE), …
You need to be Ruthless: Entertaining Cross-cultural Differences
This paper presents an analysis of the potential problems of importing media communication in the form of a television programme from another culture. In Hong Kong, as elsewhere in the world, the local television companies frequently buy successful television programmes from, for example, the USA or Britain with the expectation that they will be similarly successful in Hong Kong. One such example in Hong Kong was a quiz show that was bought from …
From n-gram to skipgram to concgram
Uncovering the extent of word associations and how they are manifested has been an important area of study in corpus linguistics since the 1960s (Sinclair et al. 1970). This paper defines and describes a new way of categorising word association, the concgram , which constitutes all of the permutations of constituency and positional variation generated by the association of two or more words. Concgrams are identified without prior input from the u…
Because of the Role of Er Front Office Um in Hotel: Lexical cohesion and discourse intonation
This paper describes lexical cohesion across participants in a discourse, and across discourse events, and the additional contribution made by speakers’ choices of prominence in the cohesive chains. The choice of prominence is made to communicate what is perceived to be situationally informative in the local context of interaction (Brazil 1985 and 1997). This study describes a connection between a speaker’s choice of a lexical or non-lexical word…
Peer assessment of language proficiency
This article describes part of an investigation into the reliability and potential benefits of incorporating peer assessment into English language programmes. Undergraduate Engineering students attending a university in Hong Kong were asked to assess the English language proficiency of their peers among other assessment criteria, such as preparation, content, organisation and delivery as exhibited in the seminar, oral presentation and written rep…
CAN i help you: The use of rise and rise-fall tones in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English
This paper examines the use of two tones by speakers across a variety of discourse types in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE). Specifically, it focuses on the use of the rise and rise-fall tones by speakers to assert dominance and control in different discourse types. Brazil (1997) argues that the use of the rise and the rise-fall tones is a means of exerting dominance and control at certain points in the discourse and that while con…
The language learner as language researcher: Putting corpus linguistics on the timetable
The Functions of Actually in a Corpus of Intercultural Conversations
Using a corpus of naturally occurring conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong, we examine the use of actually in intercultural conversations. The frequencies with which the two groups of speakers use actually and the functions it performs are compared and contrasted. Our findings suggest that Hong Kong Chinese speakers of English use actually far more frequently than native speakers of English. The patterns of…
The use of vague language in intercultural conversations in Hong Kong
This paper presents the findings of a study of vague language use based on a corpus of naturally-occurring conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong. The specific concern of the paper is to describe the use of vague language by the two sets of speakers. The forms of vague language present in our data are defined and exemplified. Both the native English and the non-native speakers use vague language extensively i…
She kows more about Hong Kong than you do isn't it: Tags in Hong Kong conversational English
Peer and Teacher Assessment of the Oral and Written Tasks of a Group Project
Undergraduate students, and their class teachers, assessed the performance of their peers in three oral and written tasks as part of a group project. The two sets of marks awarded by peers and teachers were subsequently compared to find out whether the students were competent to assess their peers alongside their class teachers and whether this competence, or lack of it, was partly determined by the nature of the task being assessed. A number of …
Having second thoughts: Student perceptions before and after a peer assessment exercise
attempt was made to gauge the students ' attitudes towards peer assessment This was a tw%ld process. the students ' attitudes were canvassed both prior to the peer assessment exercise and at the end of it 771is paper focuses on those students who had second thoughts abollt peer assessment and the reasons given for these shifis in attitude The implications of the findings (or implementing peer assessment on undergraduate courses are then discussed
From n-gram to skipgram to concgram
Uncovering the extent of word associations and how they are manifested has been an important area of study in corpus linguistics since the 1960s (Sinclair et al. 1970). This paper defines and describes a new way of categorising word association, the concgram , which constitutes all of the permutations of constituency and positional variation generated by the association of two or more words. Concgrams are identified without prior input from the u…
The language learner as language researcher: Putting corpus linguistics on the timetable
CAN i help you: The use of rise and rise-fall tones in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English
This paper examines the use of two tones by speakers across a variety of discourse types in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE). Specifically, it focuses on the use of the rise and rise-fall tones by speakers to assert dominance and control in different discourse types. Brazil (1997) argues that the use of the rise and the rise-fall tones is a means of exerting dominance and control at certain points in the discourse and that while con…
She kows more about Hong Kong than you do isn't it: Tags in Hong Kong conversational English
The Functions of Actually in a Corpus of Intercultural Conversations
Using a corpus of naturally occurring conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong, we examine the use of actually in intercultural conversations. The frequencies with which the two groups of speakers use actually and the functions it performs are compared and contrasted. Our findings suggest that Hong Kong Chinese speakers of English use actually far more frequently than native speakers of English. The patterns of…
The use of vague language in intercultural conversations in Hong Kong
This paper presents the findings of a study of vague language use based on a corpus of naturally-occurring conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong. The specific concern of the paper is to describe the use of vague language by the two sets of speakers. The forms of vague language present in our data are defined and exemplified. Both the native English and the non-native speakers use vague language extensively i…
Do collocational frameworks have local grammars
This study extends the theory of local grammars by making the case that local grammars can also be employed to better and more fully describe the patterns of co-selection found in collocational frameworks (Renouf & Sinclair 1991). The term collocational framework was originally used to describe the co-selection of two grammatical words which frame an intervening lexical word. In the present study a more inclusive definition is adopted and the num…
Because of the Role of Er Front Office Um in Hotel: Lexical cohesion and discourse intonation
This paper describes lexical cohesion across participants in a discourse, and across discourse events, and the additional contribution made by speakers’ choices of prominence in the cohesive chains. The choice of prominence is made to communicate what is perceived to be situationally informative in the local context of interaction (Brazil 1985 and 1997). This study describes a connection between a speaker’s choice of a lexical or non-lexical word…
Having second thoughts: Student perceptions before and after a peer assessment exercise
attempt was made to gauge the students ' attitudes towards peer assessment This was a tw%ld process. the students ' attitudes were canvassed both prior to the peer assessment exercise and at the end of it 771is paper focuses on those students who had second thoughts abollt peer assessment and the reasons given for these shifis in attitude The implications of the findings (or implementing peer assessment on undergraduate courses are then discussed
Peer and Teacher Assessment of the Oral and Written Tasks of a Group Project
Undergraduate students, and their class teachers, assessed the performance of their peers in three oral and written tasks as part of a group project. The two sets of marks awarded by peers and teachers were subsequently compared to find out whether the students were competent to assess their peers alongside their class teachers and whether this competence, or lack of it, was partly determined by the nature of the task being assessed. A number of …
The Functions of Actually in a Corpus of Intercultural Conversations
Using a corpus of naturally occurring conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong, we examine the use of actually in intercultural conversations. The frequencies with which the two groups of speakers use actually and the functions it performs are compared and contrasted. Our findings suggest that Hong Kong Chinese speakers of English use actually far more frequently than native speakers of English. The patterns of…
The use of vague language in intercultural conversations in Hong Kong
This paper presents the findings of a study of vague language use based on a corpus of naturally-occurring conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong. The specific concern of the paper is to describe the use of vague language by the two sets of speakers. The forms of vague language present in our data are defined and exemplified. Both the native English and the non-native speakers use vague language extensively i…
She kows more about Hong Kong than you do isn't it: Tags in Hong Kong conversational English
The language learner as language researcher: Putting corpus linguistics on the timetable
Peer assessment of language proficiency
This article describes part of an investigation into the reliability and potential benefits of incorporating peer assessment into English language programmes. Undergraduate Engineering students attending a university in Hong Kong were asked to assess the English language proficiency of their peers among other assessment criteria, such as preparation, content, organisation and delivery as exhibited in the seminar, oral presentation and written rep…
CAN i help you: The use of rise and rise-fall tones in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English
This paper examines the use of two tones by speakers across a variety of discourse types in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE). Specifically, it focuses on the use of the rise and rise-fall tones by speakers to assert dominance and control in different discourse types. Brazil (1997) argues that the use of the rise and the rise-fall tones is a means of exerting dominance and control at certain points in the discourse and that while con…
You need to be Ruthless: Entertaining Cross-cultural Differences
This paper presents an analysis of the potential problems of importing media communication in the form of a television programme from another culture. In Hong Kong, as elsewhere in the world, the local television companies frequently buy successful television programmes from, for example, the USA or Britain with the expectation that they will be similarly successful in Hong Kong. One such example in Hong Kong was a quiz show that was bought from …
From n-gram to skipgram to concgram
Uncovering the extent of word associations and how they are manifested has been an important area of study in corpus linguistics since the 1960s (Sinclair et al. 1970). This paper defines and describes a new way of categorising word association, the concgram , which constitutes all of the permutations of constituency and positional variation generated by the association of two or more words. Concgrams are identified without prior input from the u…
Because of the Role of Er Front Office Um in Hotel: Lexical cohesion and discourse intonation
This paper describes lexical cohesion across participants in a discourse, and across discourse events, and the additional contribution made by speakers’ choices of prominence in the cohesive chains. The choice of prominence is made to communicate what is perceived to be situationally informative in the local context of interaction (Brazil 1985 and 1997). This study describes a connection between a speaker’s choice of a lexical or non-lexical word…
Checking Understandings: Comparing Textbooks and a Corpus of Spoken English in Hong Kong
Two interactional strategies explicitly taught to learners of English in Hong Kong are how to check that the hearer understands what you are saying as you communicate and, conversely, how to check that you have understood another speaker's message. The forms of these strategies that are taught in Hong Kong schools are fairly limited. This study seeks, through examining authentic spoken discourse in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE), …
Uncovering the Extent of the Phraseological Tendency: Towards a Systematic Analysis of Concgrams
This paper offers an analytical procedure for identifying phraseological variation within ‘concgrams’ (Cheng et al. 2006), which are sets of words that co-occur regardless of constituency variation (e.g. AB and A * B), positional variation (e.g. AB and BA), or both. It argues that examining concgrams takes us closer to more fully appreciating and understanding the idiom principle (Sinclair 1987) which underpins the claim that phraseology is at th…
Corpora: Specialized
In corpus linguistics, there is a distinction made between general corpora and specialized corpora.
Collocation
Evidence from corpus linguistics studies shows that single words do not create meaning. Meaning comes from the co‐selections of words. The field of corpus linguistics has contributed significantly to our understanding of the extensive patterning to be found in language, by which is meant the variety of ways in which speakers and writers co‐select words which combine to make meanings. One of the patterns of co‐selection is collocation and, in term…
Do collocational frameworks have local grammars
This study extends the theory of local grammars by making the case that local grammars can also be employed to better and more fully describe the patterns of co-selection found in collocational frameworks (Renouf & Sinclair 1991). The term collocational framework was originally used to describe the co-selection of two grammatical words which frame an intervening lexical word. In the present study a more inclusive definition is adopted and the num…
Indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness made clearer
The ability to do indirectness, inexplicitness and vagueness is a key component in the repertoire of all competent discoursers and these are commonplace phenomena in written and spoken discourses, particularly in conversations. The study reported in the paper seeks to delineate and exemplify these three terms which are used frequently in the literature, but which are potentially confusing as they are not always unambiguously defined and consisten…
Researcher commentary on Warren (2013): The prevalence and forms of intertextuality
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