Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics

Name: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
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Irma Taavitsainen Andreas H. Jucker Jukka Tuominen(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 11. März 2014

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Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Diachronic corpus pragmatics
1. The components of diachronic corpus pragmatics
2. Intersections with focus on diachrony
3. Intersections with focus on corpus studies
4. Intersections with focus on pragmatics
5. Elaboration of context
6. Searching for pragmatic entities
7. The double binds of historical corpora
7.1 Large generalizations versus rich contextualizations
7.2 Normalized spelling versus faithful text reproduction and corpus annotation
8. The articles in this volume
References
Corpora and electronic resources
Secondary sources
Words
I had lost sight of them then for a bit, but I went on pretty fast
1. Introduction
2. Historical background
3. Data basis and methodology
4. Findings
4.1 Pretty
4.2 A bit (of (a))
5. Discussion: Pretty/a bit in the context of language/semantic change
6. Conclusion and outlook
References
Electronic resources
Secondary sources
Grammaticalisation of the Finnish stance adverbial muka, 'as if, supposedly, allegedly'
1. Introduction
2. Causality, reported speech, and evidentiality
3. The dubitative muka in Present-day Finnish
4. Establishing pragmatic meanings from historical material - a case study on nineteenth-century corpora
4.1 Ideological frames of written texts
4.2 Different dimensions of muka in nineteenth-century Finnish texts
5. Dialect data and historical pragmatic analysis
5.1 Introduction to Finnish dialect archives
5.2 Reportative and dubitative readings of muka in the dialect data
6. Discussion
References
Primary sources: Electronic corpora
Primary sources: Printed and Internet material
Secondary sources
From degree/manner adverbs to pragmatic particles in Japanese
1. Introduction
2. Corpora
3. Diachronic and synchronic survey of the three adverbs
Data analysis 1
Data analysis 2
Data analysis 3
4. From adverbs to pragmatic particles
4.1 Amari/Anmari/Anma
Data analysis 4
4.2 Bakari/Bakkari/Bakka
Data analysis 5
4.3 Yahari/Yappari/Yappa
Data analysis 6
4.4 Semantic/functional comparison of all three adverbs
5. On the parallel development of the three adverbs
The Korean case
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Corpora
Secondary sources
Appendix: Novels selected for analysis
Analyzing polysemy in Estonian
1. Introduction
2. The many faces of täpselt
2.1 Adverbial use
2.2 Moving towards a new function
3. Quantitative analysis of the use and function of täpselt
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
References
Corpora and tools
Secondary sources
Appendix: Logistic regression analysis
On the development of the Italian truth adverbs davvero and veramente
1. Introduction
2. Veramente and davvero across centuries: Some rough quantitative data
3. The wide multifunctionality of veramente in Old Italian
4. Towards intersubjectification: Veramente as a strategy for a mitigated rebuttal
5. The rise of davvero
6. Conclusions
References
Corpora
Secondary sources
Phrases and clauses
"Strong churlish purging Pills"
1. Introduction
2. Brief overview of earlier studies on attributive adjectives
3. Data and methods
4. Findings
4.1 Premodification of nouns
4.2 Frequencies of multi-adjectival premodifiers
4.3 Frequency of recurring multi-adjectival premodifiers
5. Pragmatics of multi-adjectival premodifiers
5.1 Classifiers
5.2 Evaluative descriptors
5.3 Humoral descriptors
5.4 General descriptors
5.5 Outliers
6. Tentative conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
On the origin of clausal parenthetical constructions
1. Introduction
2. Hypotheses on the origin of clausal parentheticals
3. Typology of constructions with seem and impersonal think
3.1 Predicative constructions
3.2 Raising constructions
3.3 It + think/seem + finite subject clause
3.4 Parenthetical constructions
3.5 Comparative constructions
4. Potential ambiguity between matrix clauses and parentheticals
5. Looking into parentheticals with impersonal think and seem in the HC
5.1 Parenthetical types
5.2 Early examples
5.3 Position of think- and seem-parentheticals
6. Assessing the hypotheses: Evidence from the HC
Acknowledgements
References
Tracing the history of deontic NCI patterns in Dutch
1. Introduction
2. The ACI and NCI constructions of English and Dutch: Form, function, and diachrony
3. The development of the deontic NCI in English
4. Deontic NCIs in Dutch corpora
5. The source of the Dutch deontic NCI
6. Verwacht worden te: Further evidence of English influence
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Corpora
Secondary sources
Front field negation in spoken Swedish
1. Introduction and objectives of the study
2. Use of front field negation in Present-day Swedish
3. The diachronic corpus
4. The diachronic distribution of front field negation in drama dialogue
5. Contexts for front field negation in drama dialogue
6. Discussion and conclusion
References
Datasets
Secondary sources
Utterances and dialogues
Complimenting in the history of American English
1. Introduction
2. Methods of corpus-based speech act studies
3. Complimenting
4. Method
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Data
Secondary sources
Exploring verbal aggression in English historical texts using USAS
1. Introduction
2. Existing work on (verbal) aggression
2.1 Strategic ambivalence within a courtroom context
2.2 Metapragmatic framing strategies
3. Some preliminary findings
3.1 Potential "aggression-related" words/phrases found by USAS
4. Issues uncovered - and some possible solutions
References
Appendix: A selection of words/phrases potentially indicative of (verbal) aggression
A matter of tradition and good advice
1. Introduction
2. Historical pragmatics: The three perspectives of (historical) pragmatics and the traditions of counselling
3. Traditions and good advice: Counselling in Old Spanish texts
3.1 Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in corpus pragmatics
3.2 The philological approach: Counselling between decision-making and transfer of knowledge
4. Testing the tools: Counselling dialogues, lexical affinities and lexical clustering
4.1 The lexicon of counselling: Co-occurrence and visualisation through Treecloud
4.2 Counselling in contrast: Analysing lexical clusters through log-likelihood ratio tests
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Corpus texts and tools
Secondary sources
Language index
Name index
Subject index

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