This is the first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics. It covers corpus-pragmatic research carried out in key areas such as speech acts, reference and...
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This is the first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics. It covers corpus-pragmatic research carried out in key areas such as speech acts, reference and conversational organisation. Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction Corpus pragmatics: laying the foundations -- Part I Corpora and speech acts -- 1 Speech acts: a synchronic perspective -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Corpus-based investigations into speech acts -- 1.3 Case study: directives in academic contexts -- 1.4 Methodology -- 1.4.1 Speech act definitions -- 1.4.2 Contextual and linguistic variables -- 1.4.3 The corpus -- 1.5 Results -- 1.6 Analysis -- 1.6.1 Service encounters -- 1.6.2 Office hours -- 1.6.3 Study groups -- 1.7 Discussion -- 1.8 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Speech acts: a diachronic perspective -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Methodological questions -- 2.3 Overview of research -- 2.3.1 Illustrative eclecticism -- 2.3.2 Structural eclecticism -- 2.3.3 Beyond eclecticism -- 2.4 Opening up a broader perspective: English performatives from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century -- 2.4.1 Commissives -- 2.4.2 Representatives -- 2.4.3 Directives -- 2.4.4 Expressives -- 2.4.5 Declarations and rogatives -- 2.4.6 Conclusion -- 2.5 Final remarks -- References -- Appendix 2A -- Corpora and databases -- 3 Speech act annotation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Basic representation of dialogues -- 3.2.1 Basic markup format -- 3.2.2 Identifying and segmenting pragmatic units for analysis -- 3.2.3 Existing annotation schemes -- 3.3 A comparison of three main schemes (DAMSL, SWBD DAMSL, and DART) -- 3.3.1 Communicative status and basic annotation formats -- 3.3.2 Information level and status categories -- 3.3.3 'Initiation-indicating' categories -- 3.3.4 'Response-indicating' categories -- 3.4 Other schemes -- 3.5 Using the DART annotation scheme: a brief case study -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 3A -- Part II Corpora and pragmatic principles.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Introduction Corpus pragmatics: laying the foundations; Part I Corpora and speech acts; 1 Speech acts: a synchronic perspective; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Corpus-based investigations into speech acts; 1.3 Case study: directives in academic contexts; 1.4 Methodology; 1.4.1 Speech act definitions; 1.4.2 Contextual and linguistic variables; 1.4.3 The corpus; 1.5 Results; 1.6 Analysis; 1.6.1 Service encounters; 1.6.2 Office hours; 1.6.3 Study groups; 1.7 Discussion
1.8 ConclusionReferences; 2 Speech acts: a diachronic perspective; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Methodological questions; 2.3 Overview of research; 2.3.1 Illustrative eclecticism; 2.3.2 Structural eclecticism; 2.3.3 Beyond eclecticism; 2.4 Opening up a broader perspective: English performatives from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century; 2.4.1 Commissives; 2.4.2 Representatives; 2.4.3 Directives; 2.4.4 Expressives; 2.4.5 Declarations and rogatives; 2.4.6 Conclusion; 2.5 Final remarks; References; Appendix 2A; Corpora and databases; 3 Speech act annotation; 3.1 Introduction
3.2 Basic representation of dialogues3.2.1 Basic markup format; 3.2.2 Identifying and segmenting pragmatic units for analysis; 3.2.3 Existing annotation schemes; 3.3 A comparison of three main schemes (DAMSL, SWBD DAMSL, and DART); 3.3.1 Communicative status and basic annotation formats; 3.3.2 Information level and status categories; 3.3.3 'Initiation-indicating' categories; 3.3.4 'Response-indicating' categories; 3.4 Other schemes; 3.5 Using the DART annotation scheme: a brief case study; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Appendix 3A; Part II Corpora and pragmatic principles; 4 Processibility
4.1 Introduction4.2 Information packaging: an overview; 4.2.1 Information status: given and new; 4.2.2 End-focus principle; 4.2.3 End-weight principle; 4.3 Information structure and grammaticalization; 4.4 Presentational matrix clauses; 4.4.1 Matrix clause introducing an object clause: I think, I´m thinking, I just think; 4.4.2 Matrix clause of an extraposed subject: it may be, it turns out, it seems; 4.4.3 Matrix clause of a copular sentence: The thing is; 4.4.4 Inferential matrix clause: It's (just) (that/like); 4.5 Conclusion; References; 5 Relevance; 5.1 Introduction
5.2 Basic concepts in relevance theory5.2.1 Relevance theory and the contribution of discourse markers to utterance comprehension; 5.2.2 Relevance theory and empirical linguistics; 5.2.3 Emerging discourse markers and their relevance; 5.3 Two case studies; 5.3.1 Introduction: the contrastive approach to discourse markers; 5.3.2 Material and method; 5.3.3 As if as a marker of emphatic rejection; 5.3.4 The new interjection duh; 5.4 Concluding remarks; References; Appendix 5A:; 6 Politeness; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The present study
6.3 Academic criticism and politeness strategies: a review of the literature
"Corpus linguistics is a long-established method which uses authentic language data, stored in extensive computer corpora, as the basis for linguistic research. Moving away from the traditional intuitive approach to linguistics, which used made-up...
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"Corpus linguistics is a long-established method which uses authentic language data, stored in extensive computer corpora, as the basis for linguistic research. Moving away from the traditional intuitive approach to linguistics, which used made-up examples, corpus linguistics has made a significant contribution to all areas of the field. Until very recently, corpus linguistics has focused almost exclusively on syntax and the lexicon; however corpus-based approaches to the other subfields of linguistics are now rapidly emerging, and this is the first handbook on corpus pragmatics as a field. Bringing together a team of leading scholars from around the world, this handbook looks at how the use of corpus data has informed research into different key aspects of pragmatics, including pragmatic principles, pragmatic markers, evaluation, reference, speech acts, and conversational organisation"--
Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Corpus pragmatics: laying the foundations Christoph Rühlemann and Karin Aijmer; Part I. Corpora and Speech Acts: 1. Speech acts: a synchronic perspective Paula Garcia McAllister; 2. Speech acts: a diachronic perspective Thomas Kohnen; 3. Speech act annotation Martin Weisser; Part II. Corpora and Pragmatic Principles: 4. Processibility Gunther Kaltenack; 5. Relevance Gisle Andersen; 6. Politeness Giuliana Diani; Part III. Corpora and Pragmatic Markers: 7. Pragmatic markers Karin Aijmer; 8. Stance markers Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber; 9. Interjections Neal Norrick; Part IV. Corpora and Evaluation: 10. Evaluative prosody Alan Partington; 11. Tails Ivor Timmis; Part V. Corpora and Reference: 12. Deixis Christoph Rühlemann and Matthew Brook O'Donnell; 13. Vagueness Winnie Cheng and Anne O'Keeffe; Part VI. Corpora and Turntaking: 14. Turn management and pauses Gunnel Tottie; 15. Turn management and backchannels Pam Peters and Deanna Wong; 16. Co-constructed turntaking Brian Clancy and Michael McCarthy.
