Lingthusiasm
112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)
January 15, 202649 min · 8,737 words
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Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between the raw experience of someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of what they've said, there are certain steps that make it easier for that analysis to happen, or to be understood or reproduced by others later. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about how language becomes linguistic data.
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We don't speak in punctuation. Putting some level of punctuation in, even though it makes it more readable, is still making a level of decision.
“there isn't a clear boundary between data and theory. Writing data down involves making some theoretical decisions, some that the researchers may be aware of and some that they may not even be aware of.”
“They'll sometimes only break down the one word that's of interest and not any of the other words, which means if you want to reuse that data to do a different analysis about a different part of the sentence that the author didn't care that much about, you don't have enough information to do that.”
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