{"id":6423,"date":"2005-10-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/banal-features-1\/"},"modified":"2005-10-01T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T14:30:00","slug":"banal-features-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/01\/banal-features-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Banal Features Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

Alt. title: "Dull Feature Analysis."  Today I’m working on a small-time
\napplication of discourse analysis for Method~ologies.  We’re looking at a
\ncorpus of eight student essays.  Initially, I considered how I would graph
\nBazerman’s concept of "intertextual reach," which he defines as "how far a text
\ntravels for its intertextual relations" (89).  How far is that?  How
\ndo we account for the span of these traces–meters, leagues, years, decibels,
\nlumens?  Maybe referential density could draw on network studies. 
\nHow?  We could establish a near<\/i> intertextual reach as
\nreference-gestures that share another source.  This would involve a
\ntriangulation of citations: Bazerman–let’s say–cites Porter and Prior. 
\nBut Porter also cites Prior.  Porter is intertextually nearer than Prior
\n(who does not cite any other source in common with Bazerman).  I’m making
\nthis up.  The far<\/i> reach would describe the solitary reference–the
\nsingular text-trace that is not shared by any other source cited in the primary
\ntext (the text whose traces and reaches we are surveying).  But I wanted to
\nthink about intertextual reach as a quality that could be determined by
\ntriangulating citations.  Applied to a batch of student essays where
\nworks-to-cite are predefined, intertextual reach seems wobbly–a stretch<\/i>,
\nas in…look at how they reach alike.<\/p>\n

I’ll need something else.  <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\n\"Banal<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

And so I got out all of my fingers and toes
\nand went about counting commonplace features–dull features.  In her work
\non awk<\/i> sentences and evidentials, Barton applies a method of linguistic
\nanalysis she refers to as rich feature analysis.  Rich feature analysis can
\nlead to inductive (data-first) or deductive (theory-first) claim-making.<\/p>\n

\n Rich features have both linguistic integrity<\/b> (i.e., they are
\n structural features of language, so they can be defined in linguistic terms
\n and then categorized, coded, counted, and otherwise analyzed empirically) and
\n contextual value<\/b> (i.e., they can be conventionally connected to matters
\n of function, meaning, interpretation, and significance).  The connection
\n between a feature and its contextual value is a convention of language use. 
\n In this method, then, the connection between structure and function is the
\n primary focus of analysis. (66)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s where I’m at for now–thinking through this stuff.  I’m tempted
\nto complement the terms Barton emphasizes, but I’m just as inclined to make the
\ncase that dull features also have linguistic integrity and contextual value. 
\nOne distinction, perhaps, is that banal\/dull features don’t connect to "matters
\nof function, meaning, interpretation and significance" in quite the same way as
\nrich features.  Banal features are, perhaps, second-class features, in this
\nsense; in conventionalized reading-for-meaning, they are there and yet not
\nthere–these features.  Yes, of course…I’m going to need a truckload of
\ncaveats to clear this up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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