Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse

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Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Julia Bamford Silvia Cavalieri Giuliana Diani(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 31. Oktober 2013

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Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Overview of the chapters
Part I. Corpus analysis of spoken dialogue
Section I. Variation and academic dialogue
1. Speaking professionally in an L2 - Issues of corpus methodology
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. The ELFA corpus
3.1 Setting-related choices
3.2 Speaker-related choices
4. Using corpora of professional speaking
4.1 Starting by brainstorming
4.2 Starting by listing
4.3 Starting by reading transcripts
5. Issues of comparability
5.1 External comparability
5.2 Internal comparability
6. Conclusion
Notes
References
Corpora referred to
2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns
1. Introduction
2. Corpus
3. Findings
3.1 Comparing frequency of the use of "I", "we" and "you" and their possessive and object forms
3.2 Collocates of "we", "I" and "you"
4. Discussion and conclusions
Notes
References
Section II. Dialogue in spoken and written business discourse
3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication
1. Introduction
2. Business data
3. Method
4. The analysis
4.1 Nominalization in the power point corpus
4.2 Text structure and organization in the oral presentation
4.3 Visual and spatial imagery: A feature of spontaneous speech in multimodal discourse
4.4 The "conversationalization" of written communication
5. Corporate messaging networks: Identity and image in "employer branding"
6. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
4. Using grammatical tagging to explore spoken/written variation in small specialized corpora
1. Introduction
2. Financial disclosure
3. Materials and methods
3.1 The corpora
3.2 Methodology
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Lexical density
4.2 Evaluative adjectives
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
Section III. Dialogic variation and language varieties
5. Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation: A corpus-based study
1. Introduction
2. Materials and method
2.1 Corpus
2.2 Pragmatic analysis of yes-no questions
2.3 Intonation analysis
3. Results
3.1 Yes-no question intonation in the Northern Italian varieties
3.2 Yes-no question intonation in the Central Italian varieties
3.3 Yes-no question intonation in the Southern Italian varieties
3.4 Discussion
4. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
References
6. Estonian emotional speech corpus: Content and options
1. Introduction
2. Emotion recognition from voice
3. Creation of the Estonian emotional speech corpus
4. Materials and methods
5. Listening and reading results
6. Corpus data
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English
1. Introduction
2. Framework and methodology
3. Multi-dimensional analysis
4. A teaching experiment with movies
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
8. "But that's dialect, isn't it?" Exploring geographical variation in the SCOTS corpus
1. Introduction
2. The SCOTS corpus
3. Quantitative approaches
4. Qualitative approaches
5. Conclusion
Notes
References
Web resources
Part II. Using corpora to analyse written discourse: A diachronic perspective
Section I. Diachronic approaches to historical corpora
9. Variation in the language of London newspapers: January 1701
1. Introduction
1.1 Newspaper texts in Modern English corpora
1.2 Newspaper texts in historical corpora
2. The ZEN corpus
2.1 The ZEN corpus 2006
2.2 Expanding the ZEN corpus
3. Aspects of early newspaper language
3.1 Text classes
3.2 Quality vs. popular papers
4. Newspapers in 1701
4.1 Establishing a corpus of foreign news
4.2 Newspaper profiles for 1701
5. Variation in newspapers of January 1701
5.1 Variation in morphology
5.2 Variation in text-linguistic features
6. Conclusions
References
List of corpora and collections of early English newspaper texts
10. From letters to guidebooks: Ruskin's Mornings in Florence
1. Introduction
2. Methodological approach
3. Data and content
4. Procedure and findings
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. Analysis
4. Observations
5. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
12. Analysing discourse in research genre: The case of biostatistics
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Language policy in the development of experimental reports
3.1 John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations made upon the Bills of Mortality
4. The evolution of modern and contemporary scientific prose
4.1 Analysing language and discourse in Fisher's prose
4.2 Language and discourse in a contemporary specialised text
5. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Section ii. Diachronic methodologies and language change
13.A diachronic corpus-based study of the demonstrative 'this' in tourism research article abstracts
1. Introduction
2. Variation in academic genres
3. Tourism studies
4. Materials and methods
5. Results
6. Discussion and conclusions
References
14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language: A diachronic, corpus-based study
1. Introduction
2. Non-homogeneity of newspaper language
3. The search for "animation"
4. Materials and methods
5. Findings
5.1 Dislocations
5.2 Sentence-initial connectives
5.3 Measures of structural complexity
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
15. A corpus-based analysis of some time-related aspects of contemporary Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Corpora and method
2.1 Corpora
2.2 Method
3. Diachronic changes of the grammar of contemporary Japanese
3.1 The morphology of the verb suru
3.2 The selection of the adjectivalizing suffixes -na and -no
3.3 The permissive construction V sasete itadaku
4. Seasonal changes in the use frequency of vocabulary items
4.1 Terms for referring to {last/this/next} year
4.2 Terms denoting the four seasons
4.3 Adjectives of temperature
5. Conclusions
Notes
References
It's always the same old news! A diachronic analysis of shifting newspaper language style, 1993-2005
1. Introduction
2. Research questions
3. Methodology
4. Corpora
5. Analysis
5.1 Honorifics
5.2 'Taboo' language
5.3 Pronouns
5.4 Contracted forms
5.5 Quoted utterances
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
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Subject index

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