Abstract
This chapter provides a general overview of research methods used in the analysis of both spoken and written discourse. In addition, it provides a specific overview of how natural language processing (NLP) tools that measure lexical, syntactic, rhetorical, and cohesion features of text can be used to examine spoken and written discourse. The chapter provides an overview of how NLP tools have been used in previous studies of discourse, an introduction to freely available tools, an overview of the output produced by these tools, and statistical methods used to analyze and interpret the output produced from these tools.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Linguistics Research Methodology |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 567-594 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781137599001 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781137598998 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 Jan 1 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Social Sciences(all)