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- PublicationA Corpus-Assisted Critical Metaphor Analysis of General Prayuth Chan-o-cha’s English Subtitled Weekly Addresses on Politics and Democracy-Related Issues in Times of Political TurmoilChaiyasat, Chatchawan; Sudajit-apa, Melada; Osatananda, Varisa (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University (Rangsit Campus), 2017)In recent years, metaphorical linguistic expression has been shown to play a significant role in representing a thought-provoking and novel way of viewing the world and assisting individuals in understanding more about the meaning of linguistic realization. As a result metaphorical analysis has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention in various fields over a wide range of textual typologies. This study aims at examining the types of conceptual metaphor used in the English subtitles of General Prayut Chan-o-cha’s weekly addresses during times of political crisis in order to reveal the underlying political ideologies in relation to the politics and democracy-related issues. The present study also applied a corpus-assisted approach and the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) to identify the conceptual metaphors. The finding reveals seven categories of conceptual metaphor are used, including MACHINE AND TOOLS, JOURNEY, BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION, HUMAN, WAR, ANIMAL (BIRD), and OBJECT. Data analysis indicated that the conceptual metaphor of MACHINE AND TOOLS appeared to be the most frequently used comparing to other types. The study also suggests that Thai military government, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, has exploited metaphorical expressions in order to shed light on the hope of seeing the democratic-building processes becoming accepted by both the Thai populace and the international community.
- PublicationA Corpus-Based Collocation Study and Move Patterns in Online Smartphone Press ReleasesWei, Jiang; Gampper, Chanika; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn (Language Institute, Thammasat University, 2014)This study is an investigation of fixed expressions or prefabricated adjective and verb collocations that occur in online smartphone press releases (OSPR). OSPR is a sub-genre of the press release. Previous studies reveal that different genres favor different linguistic structures and elements. Collocations of high frequency words in specific genres have indicated a prototypical phraseology. First, this study looked into the corpus-based collocation of adjective+ noun and verb+ noun in 230 OSPRs. Second, the sequences of moves of selected five OSPR were determined. Finally, the purpose(s) of each move was/were identified through adjectives used in each sentence. The findings reveal that while ostensibly informative, press releases also carry an implicitly self-promotional purpose. It is suggested that, for foreign language learners, focusing on collocation patterns within genre may provide a more productive way to study vocabulary. The move patterns found in this study enable learners to be aware of the move sequences in press release writing. Also, recommendations are made on how to use the research findings to improve English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching.
- PublicationA Corpus-informed Study of Move Structures and Linguistic Features of Press Release and Corresponding News Reports of Products and Services in the Thai Business ContextChavanachid, Pititul; Sripicharn, Passapong (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University (Rangsit Campus), 2019)This study adopted the corpus-based, move analysis approach to explore differences in move structure and linguistic feature between press release and corresponding news reports. The corpus comprised of 60 press releases (approximately 50,000 words) of products and services written by Thailand-based companies and 60 corresponding news articles (approximately 40,000 words) collected from local English-language newspapers-namely, The Nation and Bangkok Post. A framework adopted from Catenaccio’s (2008) move analysis of business press release was used to identify and compare move structures between the two sets of data. The findings suggested that, although the news reports follow almost all the same rhetorical structures as those found in the releases, the corpus analysis of linguistic features revealed some significant differences between lexical choices and grammatical patterns that showed some subtly manipulation on the part of the news writers. Research and pedagogical implications of the study were also discussed.
- PublicationCognitive Corpus Studies: A New Qualitative & Quantitative Agenda for Contrasting LanguagesLewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara (Research Administration Division, Mae Fah Luang University Research and Innovation Institute, 2012)The huge economic disparities within the GMS countries will cause labor migration to Thailand to be increased rapidly over the next decade. This paper focuses on the impact of the migration policy toward human rights situation of migrant labors in particular from Myanmar, as these migrants are the largest cheap-labor supply in Thailand. They have the highest potential to be adversely affected by the latest approach of labor migration in the restrictive from. The cause found as influential factors are push and pull factors: push factors are related with economic, social, and political situation in Myanmar while pull factors are the growth of Thailand’s economy, and the labor shortage in low-skilled sector in Thailand. The results show that Thailand’s labor migration policy should aim to obtain maximum benefits for both registered and non-registered migrant workers by enforcing coherent migration policy which meets the need of current situation and dynamics of labor migration.
- PublicationExploring Discourse Marker Use in Thai University Students’ ConversationsArya, Tanyaporn (Language Institute, Thammasat University, 2020)Using a specialized corpus of English conversations between Thai university students and non-Thai speakers of English, this study examines the distribution of discourse markers employed and how they function in context. Analysis of transcriptions from a conversational perspective, reference to audio recordings and frequency counts revealed thirty-four different discourse markers used, making up 5.6% of the total corpus. The most frequent were and, OK, but and so respectively. Results indicate that, for engagement in conversations, discourse markers were employed by participants most commonly for referential purposes, lacking in extensive discourse marker use for interpersonal communication (e.g. marking and confirming shared knowledge, hedging) and cognitive functions (e.g. reformulating, repair). For the management of conversations, structural discourse markers emerged from the data to function mainly as topic shifters and mostly to give turns. The deficiency in overall discourse marker use found in Thai EFL student conversations points to a pedagogical urgency to create learner awareness of how applying these small words can significantly impact the quality of a conversation and the relationship between interlocutors.
- PublicationGender and Lexical Representation in Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five: A Corpus-based StudyVathanalaoha, Kriangkrai; Jeeradhanawin, Dhanakorn (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University (Rangsit Campus), 2015)Corpus stylistics is deemed promising in literary school as it fosters cautious optimism in using empirical evidence to support individualistic interpretations. Also, it is established that we are living in a digital era where texts are produced more in form of electronic text. This study aims to use corpus-based analyses to offer empirical data that reveals about language behavior of what literary critics have been studied in The Famous Five, one of the most popular series of children’s literature in the world, with respect to literary themes and gender representation. The study uses two corpus analysis tools, Wmatrix and AntConc, to generate information such as key semantic fields (thematic categorizations), collocations and concordances. Using the corpus-based information, this paper concludes that The Famous Five comprises the essence of adventures and mysteries and that the story contains conventional stereotypes of male and female protagonists. Amongst the entire group, George, or Georgina, is the most intriguing character because she has been represented as an impatient and outspoken character, characterized by the lexical choices that the author has made.
- PublicationPosterior Elements of an English Intransitive Verb: A Study of the Verb LIVEKijparnich, Nabhidh; Chitrakara, Nirada; Phoocharoensil, Supakorn (Language Institute, Thammasat University, 2015)This study intends to delineate the types of posterior elements of the intransitive, specifically unergative, verb live and examine the respective functions of each type. The research data was elicited from the free online, searchable Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and there were 1,200 sentence instances containing four equally apportioned inflected forms of the lemma live (live, lives, lived, and living). All posterior elements of the unergative live are of two broad types: live with posterior elements and with zero posterior elements. Results of the study have shown that live comes in company substantially more with posterior elements than without ones (98.25% and 1.75%, respectively), and adverbials are the most frequently found types of all postverbal elements found (95.08%). This study found that the co-occurring patterns of the intransitive live and its posterior elements can be justified on semantic as well as pragmatic grounds.