Taming our Wild Data

Many research questions in the field of applied linguistics are answered by manually analyzing data collections or corpora: collections of spoken, written and/or visual communicative messages. In this kind of quantitative content analysis, the coding of subjective language data often leads to disagr...

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Vydané v:Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics Ročník 13
Hlavní autori: Renske van Enschot, Wilbert Spooren, Antal van den Bosch, Christian Burgers, Liesbeth Degand, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Florian Kunneman, Christine Liebrecht, Yvette Linders, Alfons Maes
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: openjournals.nl 01.03.2024
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complex discourse data
discourse
hands-on procedures
intercoder reliability
quantitative content analysis
ISSN:2211-7253
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Shrnutí:Many research questions in the field of applied linguistics are answered by manually analyzing data collections or corpora: collections of spoken, written and/or visual communicative messages. In this kind of quantitative content analysis, the coding of subjective language data often leads to disagreement among raters. In this paper, we discuss causes of and solutions to disagreement problems in the analysis of discourse. We discuss crucial factors determining the quality and outcome of corpus analyses, and focus on the sometimes tense relation between reliability and validity. We evaluate formal assessments of intercoder reliability. We suggest a number of ways to improve the intercoder reliability, such as the precise specification of the variables and their coding categories and carving up the coding process into smaller substeps. The paper ends with a reflection on challenges for future work in discourse analysis, with special attention to big data and multimodal discourse.
ISSN:2211-7253
DOI:10.51751/dujal16248