Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics
Title | Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph Rühlemann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2018-10-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0429835604 |
Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of core topics within pragmatics, this book: • covers six key areas of corpus-pragmatic research including speech acts, deixis, pragmatic markers, evaluation, conversational structure, and multimodality; • demonstrates the use of freely-available corpora, corpus interfaces and corpus analysis tools to conduct original pragmatic analyses; • is accompanied by an e-resource which hosts multimodal data sets for additional exercises. Featuring case studies and practical tasks within each chapter, Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in pragmatics.
Corpus Pragmatics
Title | Corpus Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Aijmer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107015049 |
The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Title | Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Irma Taavitsainen |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2014-03-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027270716 |
Diachronic corpus pragmatics extends the pragmatic perspective to developments in the history of various languages and uses corpus-linguistic methods to trace them. The chapters in this volume focus on linguistic elements at several levels, from individual words to phrases, clauses and entire genres and discourse forms. Using the most recent corpus tools, the authors investigate correlations between forms, functions and contexts in diachronic case studies that combine quantitative precision with close qualitative interpretation. The articles deal with different languages including English, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Estonian and Japanese, bringing their research traditions in pragmatics and corpus linguistics in dialogue with each other. This is the first time that such a wide range of languages has been brought together to showcase an exciting new field at the intersection of pragmatics, historical linguistics and corpus methodology.
Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics
Title | Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Jesús Romero-Trillo |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2008-11-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110199025 |
The recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival heralded the application of two paradigms based on distant theoretical principles, they always showed an interest in their mutual advances and their practical reconciliation gave birth to an intellectual synergy that proved very fruitful. The present volume is an homage to the symbiosis of pragmatics and corpus linguistics and gathers the works of some of the scholars that have striven to create the liaison between them for a better understanding of language.
How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data
Title | How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Weisser |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2018-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027264295 |
This book introduces a methodology and research tool (DART) that make it possible to carry out advanced corpus pragmatics research using dialogue corpora enriched with pragmatics-relevant annotations. It first explores the general use of spoken corpora for pragmatics research, as well as issues revolving around their representation and annotation, and then goes on to describe the resources required for such an annotation process. Based on data from three different corpora, ranging from highly constrained, task-oriented, ones (SPAADIA Trainline & Trains 93) to unconstrained dialogues (Switchboard), it next presents an in-depth discussion and illustration of the potential contributions of syntax, semantics, and semantico-pragmatics towards pragmatic force. This is followed by a description of the largely automatic annotation process itself, and finally an analysis of how a set of more than 110 potential speech acts defined in DART contributes towards establishing the specific communicative characteristics of the three corpora.
Corpus Pragmatics
Title | Corpus Pragmatics PDF eBook |
Author | Daniela Landert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2023-03-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1009090224 |
This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and data that provides orientation for methodological decisions. In addition, the Element identifies areas in which new methodological developments are needed in order to make new types of data accessible for pragmatic research. Linguistic corpora are currently undergoing diversification. While one trend is to move towards increasingly large corpora, another trend is to enhance corpora with more specialised and layered annotation. Both these trends offer new challenges and opportunities for the study of pragmatics. This volume provides a practical overview of state-of-the-art corpus-pragmatic methods in relation to different types of corpus data, covering established methods as well as innovative approaches. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Corpus and Context
Title | Corpus and Context PDF eBook |
Author | Svenja Adolphs |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027223043 |
Corpus and Context explores the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics by discussing possible frameworks for analysing utterance function on the basis of spoken corpora. The book articulates the challenges and opportunities associated with a change of focus in corpus research, from lexical to functional units, from concordance lines to extended stretches of discourse, and from the purely textual to multi-modal analysis of spoken corpus data. Drawing on a number of spoken corpora including the five million word Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE, funded by CUP (c)), a specific speech act function is being explored using different approaches and different levels of analysis. This involves a close analysis of contextual variables in relation to lexico-grammatical and discoursal patterns that emerge from the corpus data, as well as a wider discussion of the role of context in spoken corpus research.