Corpus and context : investigating pragmatic functions in spoken discourse / Svenja Adolphs.

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Adolphs, Svenja

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TextSeries: Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 30.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 151 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789027290465
9027290466
1282105213
9781282105218

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Corpus and context.DDC classification:

401/.410285 22

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P302.3 .A355 2008eb

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Contents:

Corpus and Context; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables and figures; Introduction; Spoken discourse and corpus analysis; Pragmatic functions, speech act expressions and corpus evidence; Pragmatic functions in context; Exploring pragmatic functions in discourse; Pragmatic functions beyond the text; Concluding remarks; Transcription conventions for the CANCODE data used in this book; References; Index.

Summary: 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, fu.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.

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, fu.

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