Palayon, Raymund

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Palayon, Raymund

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Palayon, Raymund T.

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KMITL Prince of Chumphon Campus

raymund.pa@kmitl.ac.th

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Integrating Corpus-based Methods to Determine Grammatical Topics for Teaching English Writing in the Thai Context
(2025-06-01)
Palayon, Raymund T.
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Chongchit, Yenying
Grammatical knowledge for effective English writing remains a significant need among Thai university students, while identifying the relevant grammatical topics to address this need continues to be a challenge in teaching writing courses. Previous papers on writing in Thai universities have mainly focused on writing performance issues, rather than proposing methods to address these issues, particularly in grammar. This quantitative case study employed corpus analyses to determine the relevant grammatical topics that address the grammatical needs of a specific group of Thai university students in English writing. ChatGPT was utilized to improve the essays of the target students, resulting in two datasets (namely, students’ essays and refined essays). Keyword analysis was employed to illustrate their grammatical characteristics. Biber’s (1988; 1989) multidimensional analysis and key part-of-speech analysis were applied to verify the keyword findings and determine the target grammatical topics for teaching writing. The analyses revealed 12 significant grammatical features that address the grammatical needs of the target students in English writing (namely, nominalizations, determiners, present participial clauses, prepositional phrases, attributive adjectives, conjuncts, independent clause coordination, phrasal coordination, past participial clauses, that relative clauses in the subject position, adverbial subordinators, and sentence relatives). These features can make the students’ writing compositions informational, narrative, and formal, reflecting the characteristics of academic language. This paper provides procedures for identifying grammatical topics that are aligned with the current grammatical needs of students in writing.
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Determining the stage of development of a suspicious religious group through corpus analyses
(2025-01-01)
Palayon, Raymund T.
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Todd, Richard Watson
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Vungthong, Sompatu
Religious groups differ in the types of impact they have on society with most groups being beneficial, but some having detrimental effects, most noticeably destructive cults such as Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. Social concerns about cults make it important to identify the stage of development of a suspicious religious group on a continuum from mainstream religion through sect and cult to destructive cult. In this paper, we applied the methods and findings of Palayon et al. (2021, 2022a) from a corpus linguistics perspective to the sermons of Apollo Quiboloy, the leader of the Kingdom Jesus Christ, as a suspicious religious group to identify its stage of religious development. From the findings, Apollo Quiboloy’s sermons display a philosophy and discourse characteristics being elaborative and persuasive associated with sects and some communication styles possibly associated with cults. This study may allow the stages of development of suspicious religious groups to be determined.
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The Language of Praise and Worship: A Corpus Analysis of Register Variation in Christian Songs
(2025-01-01)
Palayon, Raymund T.
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Dalona, Irish Mae F.
Songs play a central role in Christianity, not only as musical expressions of faith but also as powerful tools for influencing beliefs and behavior. Some churches utilize hymns, while others prefer contemporary Christian songs. Despite their significance in shaping religious views and practices, the language of Christian songs remains underexamined in linguistic research. Previous studies have analyzed only a small number of texts and focused on limited linguistic features, providing a limited understanding of their stylistic functions. This paper examined the key linguistic features in the two sets of Christian songs—church hymns and contemporary Christian songs—to illustrate their register variation, using multidimensional analysis, key semantic tag analysis, and key part-of-speech analysis. From the analyses, the church hymns display features associated with scriptural texts (e.g., God, salvation, Jesus), adoration (e.g., glory, bless, rejoice), and appreciation (e.g., gracious, thankful, grateful), illustrating the informational and context-independent characteristics in these songs. The contemporary Christian songs display features associated with life-related situations (e.g., breakdown, failure, loss), spiritual relationships (e.g., me, you), and an engaging style of communication (e.g., I, we, your), illustrating the context-dependent and persuasive characteristics in these songs. This study provides a framework for characterizing the linguistic features of worship songs from non-Christian contexts, enabling future research to compare religious music across different traditions.
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Multifaceted approach of corpus analysis for characterizing Christian religious groups
(2025-08-01)
Palayon, Raymund T.
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Watson Todd, Richard
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Vungthong, Sompatu
The use of a range of corpus-based methods to systematically examine religious groups from a language perspective remains relatively unexplored. This paper highlights the procedures and contributions of five corpus analyses used to examine various Christian religious groups. The target groups were categorized into mainstream religion, sect, cult, and destructive cult based on their social characteristics and the linguistic features in the sermons of the leaders were analyzed. The linguistic patterns reveal the similarities and differences between mainstream religious groups and sects, differentiate the characteristics of sects from cults, and highlight the potential progression of cults into destructive cults. All groups are elaborative and persuasive in discourse; however, cults and destructive cults are more elaborative and persuasive than mainstream religious groups and sects. This paper allows us to see the significance of language and various corpus-based methods for identifying the stage of development of a potentially harmful religious group.
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LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS ILLUSTRATING MASS SUICIDE IN THE DESTRUCTIVE CULT SERMONS
(2024-09-01)
Palayon, Raymund T.
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Todd, Richard Watson
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Vungthong, Sompatu
Destructive cults remain a significant focus in religious research due to their extreme behaviours and tragic outcomes. Among the most notorious were Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones and Heaven’s Gate led by Marshall Applewhite. They shocked the world by committing mass suicide. Previous studies have mainly focused on the psychological and behavioural aspects of these groups, particularly in the context of these tragic events. This paper examined the meaningful linguistic features in Jim Jones’ sermons and Marshall Applewhite’s sermons in the period leading up to the mass suicide. By comparing them to the mainstream sermons and sect sermons using keyword and collocation analysis, distinct patterns emerged. Jim Jones’ sermons contain words associated with negative sociopolitical views (such as socialism, communism, war, violence, and killed), which allowed Peoples Temple to express mass suicide literally. In contrast, Marshall Applewhite’s sermons contain implicative words associated with distance and movements (such as heavenly, planet, vehicle, overcoming, and separate), enabling Heaven’s Gate to express mass suicide in a figurative manner. Both sermons apply communication styles where three styles: othering (we, they), intensification (very, really), and negation (can’t) are common in the two datasets, allowing each leader to convey mass suicide. The findings guide us to characterize the behavioural effects of mass suicide and these provide communication signs to identify the dangerous characteristics of suspicious religious groups before their destructive activities happen.

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