complexico / anger-mad-coca

A repository for R codes and data for a paper titled "Exploring grammatical and semantic profiles of ANGRY and MAD: A corpus-based study". The paper uses data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) as part of the undergraduate thesis project by Ida Ayu Saskara Tranggana Suari, supervised by Prof. I N. Sudipa and Gede Rajeg, PhD.

Supplementary materials for “Exploring Grammatical and Semantic Profiles of ANGRY and MAD: A Corpus-based Study”

Ida Ayu Saskara Tranggana Suari, Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg , and I Nengah Sudipa

Overview

The paper (preprint) mentioned as part of this repository is the output of the undergraduate thesis by Ida Ayu Saskara Tranggana Suari (first author; Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg [second author, associate supervisor]; I Nengah Sudipa [third author, main supervisor]). Tranggana Suari’s work explored grammatical/morphological and semantic profiles of ANGRY/ANGER and MAD(DEN) based on data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).

Suari, Ida Ayu Saskara Tranggana, Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg & I Nengah Sudipa. to appear. Exploring Grammatical and Semantic Profiles of ANGRY and MAD: A Corpus-based Study. EJI (English Journal of Indragiri): Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics. 8(2). https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25749681

The thesis is one of the outcome from a number of current and past students taking the English Lexicology and Lexicography course taught by Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg, who also introduced COCA to the students.

Contribution

• Ida Ayu Saskara Tranggana Suari

  • conceptualise, design, and conduct the study and analyses

  • retrieve and organise the relevant data from COCA

  • perform semantic annotation on the collocate data

  • write the full-draft of the manuscript

• Gede Primahadi W. Rajeg

  • conceptualise the study

  • created the visualisations in R (code file)

  • check the semantic annotation on the data

  • edit the manuscript

• I Nengah Sudipa

  • edit the manuscript

Related undergraduate student projects

The other and currently related undergraduate-student thesis-and-article project is by I Gede Semara Dharma Putra (paper repository; thesis dataset), who combined corpus-based data from COCA and preliminary experimental data to explore divergence/convergence in the verb-noun association (supervised by Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg [main] and Ketut Santi Indriani [associate]).

Previous corpus-based works by undergraduate students supervised by Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg include:

• Ariestiawati et al. (2023) (data; paper)

• Harta et al. (2023) (paper)

• Christina (2021) (thesis; data)

The works of these students represent the pedagogical pre-cursors for the CompLexico (Computer-assisted Lexicology and Lexicography) research group, led by Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg. CompLexico is part of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHSS) at the Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University.