Friedemann Vogel

Korpuspragmatik. Paradigma zwischen Handlung, Gesellschaft und Kognition

MARCUS MÜLLER Wort zur Gesellschaft: Kontexte in Korpora. Ein Beitrag zur Methodologie der Korpuspragmatik 33 GERLINDE MAUTNER Die kritische Masse. Korpuslinguistik und kritische Diskursanalyse 83 EKKEHARD FELDER Pragma-semiotische Textarbeit und der Nutzen von Korpusanalysen für die linguistische THOMAS Corpora and Performativity 175 JOACHIM SCHARLOTH NOAH BUBENHOFER Datengeleitete Korpuspragmatik. Korpusvergleich als Methode der Stilanalyse 195 WOLFGANG TEUBERT Von der Korpuslinguistik zur Analyse thematischer Diskurse

‚Patientenautonomie‘ und ‚Lebensschutz‘

Abstract On the basis of a law text corpus which consists of judicial decisions and jurisprudential papers on so-called assisted suicide from 1977 to 2011, agonal centres are determined within the paradigm of corpus-based pragma-semiotic text analysis. Agonal centres are defined as action-guiding concepts that are in conflict with each other concerning the general acceptance of event interpretations, options for actions, claims of validity, contextual knowledge and values. These action-guiding concepts are derived with the help of quantitative and qualitative methods. Discourse linguistic interpretations are thus rendered more objective with the help of semi-automatic methods; furthermore, specific discourse features of the discourse and approaches to interpretation can be derived from (un)expected linguistic significances of occurrence, distribution, frequency etc. at the linguistic surface. Finally, these agonal centres specific to the language of law are compared to agonal centres which are determined on the basis of a media corpus on the same issue. This provides a comparative insight into the constitution of a seemingly identical fact in everyday and special language, which demonstrates the sociopolitical relevance of analysing the constitution of reality as instructed by language.

Das LDA-Toolkit Korpuslinguistisches Analyseinstrument für kontrastive Diskurs- und Imageanalysen in Forschung und Lehre

This contribution discusses the function and use of a new corpus linguistic freeware (under Creative Commons Licence), called „LDA-Toolkit“. After a brief introduction, the tools and their functionality are presented, followed by two examples of analyses. The LDA-Toolkit has been especially developed for linguistic discourse and image analysis for use in research and teaching. The handling is easy (GUI) and does not require any programming skills. Its tools contain a token list, a concordance tool, keyword analysis, contrastive key-cluster, key-ngram and key-pos-gram analysis, contrastive co-occurrence analysis and easy auxiliary devices to visualize results as word nets or word clouds. All tools as well as all results of the analyses are concentrated and recorded in a virtual working platform called „LDA tree“ or „LDA explorer“, because the results are visualized in a hierarchic tree model of co(n)texts. Furhtermore, the records of this main tool can easily be saved as status of work and reloaded for later analysis. The functionality of the LDA-toolkit is exemplified by two examples: the first example illustrates a corpus-driven method of linguistic discourse study using keyword and contrastive ngram analysis. It focuses on the legal debate about euthanasia and advanced health care directives in Germany. The second example outlines a corpus-assisted approach to analyzing public media images and stereotypes. It examines the German pirate party’s image („Piratenpartei“) in German newspapers.