From Language to Multimodality - New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning - Carys Jones
3 A survey of process type classification over difficult cases
From Language to Multimodality - New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning - Carys Jones
Michael James O'Donnell [+]
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Michele Zappavigna [+]
University of New South Wales
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Michele Zappavigna is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. As a linguist, her primary focus is on exploring the language of microblogging and social media. Her research in this area investigates discursive patterns in social media texts and corpora.
Casey Whitelaw
Google Inc.
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The aim of this chapter is to explore how ‘standard’ is the application of process type analysis: to what degree does the community of practitioners concur in their application of the theory. To this end, the authors prepared 32 clauses, ranging from those reasonably clear as to process type to those which are very difficult to code. These examples were placed on a web-page, which allowed a coder to assign a process type to each clause, and invited the coder to comment on their reasoning. Then, the authors solicited readers of Sysfling and Sys-func to complete the coding. Seventy-five people responded.