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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 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.
Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This
book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus
of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its
study. Christoph Ruhlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific
annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the
retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale
quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients
collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using
R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing
and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base,
Ruhlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of
turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation
of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech
reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance
level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential
context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.
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.
Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This
book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus
of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its
study. Christoph Ruhlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific
annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the
retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale
quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients
collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using
R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing
and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base,
Ruhlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of
turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation
of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech
reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance
level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential
context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.
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.
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