Representations of near-death experiences
a Corpus Linguistics and Multidimensional Analysis approach
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Near death experiences, Corpus Linguistics, Multidimensional AnalysisAbstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the variation of dimensions of Near Death Experiences (NDE) reports. In recent decades, several fields of knowledge have investigated the phenomenon since the release of Moody's book (1975), including linguistics. To date, no study has investigated its variation of dimensions in the English language, through Corpus Linguistics (CL) (BERBER SARDINHA, 2004) and Multidimensional Analysis (MDA) (BIBER, 1988). As the main method of the study, additive MDA (BIBER; CONRAD, 2001) and complete MDA were carried out (BIBER, 1988), in order to map 1223 reports in the dimensions of variation of english and unveil its own dimensions. Regarding the additive MDA, the study corpus presented a positive score in dimensions one, two and five and negative score in dimensions three and four. As for the MDA, three functional dimensions were identified and interpreted as (1) Reported speech discourse vs. Elaborate description, (2) Deontic Discourse and (3) Discourse focused on stance.
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