def METHOD_NAME(self, fileids=None):
    """
    :return: the given file(s) as a list of
        sentences or utterances, each encoded as a list of word
        strings.
    :rtype: list(list(str))
    """
    return concat(
        [
            AlignedSentCorpusView(
                fileid,
                enc,
                False,
                True,
                self._word_tokenizer,
                self._sent_tokenizer,
                self._alignedsent_block_reader,
            )
            for (fileid, enc) in self.abspaths(fileids, True)
        ]
    )