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Book SynopsisThis volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing.
Trade Review”This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in how corpus-based research can contribute to the study of higher-level linguistic phenomena. The breadth of the collected papers is impressive, both in terms of their linguistic objects of study, which vary from high-level categories, such as exhortations, to specific constructions and words, as well as in the range of methodological approaches that are adopted by the authors of the studies. … a remarkable volume, presenting studies that should appeal to newcomers to corpus-based research in pragmatics and discourse as well as those who have already conducted this kind of research and want to stay informed of current approaches.” in: The Linguist List 21.2695
Table of ContentsIntroduction Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt: Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse Pragmatics and discourse Thomas Kohnen: Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts Irma Taavitsainen: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse Tanja Rütten: A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts Minna Nevala: Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters Minna Palander-Collin: Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction Anita Fetzer: Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue? Karin Aijmer: “So er I just sort I dunno I think it’s just because...”: A corpus study of I don’t know and dunno in learners’ spoken English Magnus Levin and Hans Lindquist: On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text Karin Axelsson: Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions Anna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor: Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005 Lexis, grammar and semantics Stephen Coffey: A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame Magali Paquot and Yves Bestgen: Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extraction Naixing Wei: On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC Jukka Tyrkkö and Turo Hiltunen: Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing Arja Nurmi: May: The social history of an auxiliary Sara Gesuato: GO to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions Carolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study Ingvilt Marcoe: Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing Daniël Van Olmen: A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives Corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing Dagmar Deuber: Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis Alpo Honkapohja, Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila: Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions Index
