Corpora: Pragmatics and discourse : papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008 / edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction; Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse; Part I Pragmatics and discourse; Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts; The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse; A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts; Friends will be "friends"? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters; Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction

Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue?"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; On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text; Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions; Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005; Part II Lexis, grammar and semantics; A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame

Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extractionOn the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC; Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing; May: The social history of an auxiliary; Go to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions; Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study; Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing; A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives

Part III Corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsingCaribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis; Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora; Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions; Index

This 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 co.

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