Corpora and Discourse

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The challenges of different settings

Annelie Ädel Randi Reppen(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 26. Juni 2008

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Corpora and Discourse
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
The challenges of different settings
Corpus-linguistic studies of discourse
Finding discourse-relevant data
Overview of the chapters
References
Exploring discourse in academic settings
`...post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth'
1. Introduction: Vague categories
2. Previous research into vague categories
3. Classroom modes
4. Data and methodology
5. Analysis
5.1. Managerial mode
5.2. Materials mode
5.3. Skills and systems mode
5.4. Classroom context mode
6. Conclusions
References
Appendix Transcription conventions
Emphatics in academic discourse
1. Introduction
2. Methods and material
2.1. Methodological preliminaries
2.2. Material
3. Results and discussion
3.1. Comparing frequencies: Keywords of economics and history
3.2. Ambiguity of functions: Focus on syntactic role/scope
3.3. Collocation and ``semantic preference''
3.4. Pragmatic and textual functions: Focus on significantly, invariably and undoubtedly
4. Conclusion
References
Interaction, identity and culture in academic writing
1. Introduction
2. Methodological approach
2.1. The SCEGAD corpus
2.2. Phenomena examined and statistical methods
3. Results
3.1. Person reference across languages and cultures
3.2. Person reference across disciplines
3.3. Person reference across genders and academic status levels
4. Person reference and discourse strategies
4.1. Managing complex persona with person reference
5. Conclusion
References
Exploring discourse in workplace settings
``Got a date or something?''
1. Introduction
2. Humour and the workplace setting
3. Data and methodology
3.1. Transcription issues
4. Discussion and results
4.1. Subversive humour
4.2. Reinforcing humour
5. Conclusion
References
Determining discourse-based moves in professional reports
1. Introduction
2. Corpus and coding
2.1. Description of corpus
2.2. Rationale and description of coding system
3. Analysis of selected items for the problem element within discourse-based moves
3.1. Analysis of `problem'/`problems'
3.2. Analysis of `impact'/`impacts'
4. Conclusion
References
Appendix 1: Coding scheme for professional reports
//-& ONE country two SYStems //
1. Introduction
2. Word associations
3. Discourse intonation and word associations
4. Tone unit and prominence
5. Data of the study
6. Discussion of lexically-rich word associations
7. Discussion of distribution of prominence
8. Discussion of grammatically-rich word associations
9. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Exploring discourse in news and entertainment
Who's speaking?
Introduction
Bias and newspaper reporting
Evidentiality in language
Research questions
Methods
Data collection
Samples of the data
Automated and manual data analysis
Results and discussion
Direct vs. indirect reported speech
Sources cited in the corpus
Sources cited in Sample B
The use of nested evidentiality
The use of unnamed sources
Reporting words used to report speech events
Conclusion
References
Television dialogue and natural conversation
1. Introduction
1.1. Television as a source of spoken data
2. Methodology
2.1. The Friends corpus: Settings and interactions
2.2. The conversation corpus: Settings and interactions
2.3. Data coding
3. Results
3.1. Multidimensional analysis: Similarities
3.2. Functional analysis of Friends
4. Conclusion
References
Appendix
A corpus approach to discursive constructions of a hip-hop identity
1. Introduction
1.1. Hip-hop identity in message board discourse
2. Methodology
3. Openings and closings
3.1. Yo
3.2. Peace
4. Slang and taboo terms
4.1. Slang
4.2. Taboo terms
5. Verbal art
5.1. Non-standard orthography
5.2. Use of numbers
5.3. Word-final `a'
5.4. Word-final `z'
5.5. Use of special characters
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix A
Exploring discourse through specific linguistic features
The use of the it-cleft construction in 19th-century English
1. Introduction
2. It-clefts in Present-day English: Theory and frequency
3. Brief historical background on it-clefts
4. It-clefts in 19th-century English
5. It-clefts in 19th-century Trials
5.1. Structures of it-cleft constructions in 19th-century Trials
5.2. Extensions of the it-cleft pattern
5.3. Informational aspects of it-clefts in Trials
6. Conclusion
References
Place and time adverbials in native and non-native English student writing
1. Introduction
2. Previous work
3. Adverb selection, corpora and methodology
3.1. Functions of here
3.2. Functions of there
3.3. Functions of now
3.4. Functions of then
4. Results and discussion
4.1. The place adverb here
4.2. The place adverb there
4.3. Time adverb now
4.4. Time adverb then
5. Conclusion
References
Author index
Corpus and tools index
Subject index
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