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Author Adolphs, Svenja.

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

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 151 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 30
Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 30. 1388-0373
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index.
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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Subject Discourse analysis -- Data processing.
Discourse analysis -- Data processing.
Corpora (Linguistics)
Corpora (Linguistics)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Pragmatics.
Pragmatics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Adolphs, Svenja. Corpus and context. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 9789027223043 9027223041 (DLC) 2007045722 (OCoLC)180907990
ISBN 9789027290465 (electronic book)
9027290466 (electronic book)
1282105213
9781282105218
9789027223043
9027223041