A corpus-based exploration of Australian Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in John Bodey’s The Blood Berry Vine.

Siew Imm Tan

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-4696-9_3

A corpus-based exploration of Australian Aboriginal cultural conceptualisations in John Bodey’s The Blood Berry Vine.

Siew Imm Tan

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John Bodey is an award-winning Aboriginal Australian writer. This paper reports a corpus-based study of Aboriginal Australian cultural conceptualisations as represented in his short story, The Blood Berry Vine. The story is set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and comprises 8,787 words in running text. A comparison of The Blood Berry Vine and ACE-Lit, a 147,163-word reference corpus of general Australian English literature, found keywords and distinctive transitivity patterns associated with the expression of Aboriginal cultural categories and cultural schemas. The study contributes to our understanding of aspects of Aboriginal worldviews and demonstrates the feasibility of combining a corpus-based approach with transitivity analysis in analysing and identifying variation in cultural conceptualisations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes
Editors	Marzieh Sadeghpour, Farzad Sharifian
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	3
Pages	37-63
Number of pages	27
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811546969
ISBN (Print)	9789811546952
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4696-9_3
Publication status	Published - 2021

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