Mining large corpora for social information
The case of elderly
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2885002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerlinde Mautner (0000-0002-5529-3184, Vienna University of Economics and Business, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-72 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404507070030 |
| OpenAlex | W2043531381 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 33 |
Using a large, computerized corpus, this study aims to provide lexico-grammatical evidence of stereotypical constructions of age and aging. It focuses on elderly, a word that is pivotal to the domain in question and whose associative meaning is contested. The collocational profile drawn up on the basis of corpus evidence shows that elderly is primarily associated with discourses of care, disability, and vulnerability, emerging less as a marker of chronological age than of perceived social consequences. In addition to making a contribution to discourse-oriented aging research, the article also demonstrates the use of corpus linguistic methods within a sociolinguistic framework.I am grateful to several colleagues for their comments on a draft version, including most notably Susan Hunston, Virpi Ylänne-McEwen, Kieran O'Halloran, Angie Williams, and two anonymous reviewers. Veronika Koller contributed to the initial corpus searches and also provided useful feedback on the first draft. Eva Kerbler's support during the revision phase was invaluable and much appreciated. I am indebted to Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) for financial support while spending a sabbatical at the Centre for Language and Communication Research of Cardiff University. Material from the Bank of English® reproduced with the kind permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
British National Corpus · Corpus linguistics · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing) · Aging and Gerontology Research · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · Psychology
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