Corpora and Discourse
Proceedings of "CamConf 2002</I>- Università degli Studi di Camerino, Centro Linguistico d'Ateneo- Sept 27 th -29 th 2002
Published on 25. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
420 pages
978-3-03910-026-2 (ISBN)
Description
Corpus linguistics has made impressive strides in the fields of lexicography and grammatical description, but has had relatively little to say as yet in describing features of discourse. This volume, then, examines how it is possible to use concordance technology and the detailed linguistic evidence available in corpora to enhance the study of, among other things, how speakers/writers organise their discourse, how they express evaluation of their topics and the rhetorical strategies they employ to persuade an audience. Particular attention is paid to interrogating specialized corpora and to devising techniques to discover what is going on between speakers and between authors and readers in particular varieties of the language. These studies reveal the value of integrating corpus techniques with other, non-automatic, methods of research into the linguistic record and of combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. In general, they show how it is possible to use corpora to analyse discourse not only as product but also as process.
Reviews / Votes
«...'Corpora and Discourse' represents a collection of interesting and thought-provoking papers which sketch new exciting approaches to discourse, raise a number of intriguing research questions, and call for more and larger specialised corpora and for further corpus studies of what is going on between speakers/writers and listeners/readers.» (Ute Römer, Anglistik)More details
Persons
The Editors: Alan Partington, John Morley and Louann Haarman are all professors of English Linguistics in the Political Science Departments of, respectively, Camerino, Siena and Bologna Universities, Italy.
Content
Contents: Alan Partington: Corpora and discourse, a most congruous beast - Douglas Biber/Eniko Csomay/James K. Jones/Casey Keck: Vocabulary-based discourse units in university registers - Eniko Csomay: A Multi-dimensional analysis of discourse segments in university classroom talk - Anthony Baldry/Christopher Taylor: Multimodal concordancing and subtitles with MCA - Louann Haarman: «John, what's going on?» Some features of live exchanges on television news - Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli: Walking on unfamiliar ground: Interactive discourse markers in guest lectures - Virginia Pulcini/Cristiano Furiassi: Spoken interaction and discourse markers in a corpus of learner English - Silvia Bruti: Paraphrase types in the Pavia biology corpus: Some appositional constructions - Maria Pavesi: Perspective and dynamicity in static spatial description: The case of fictive motion in a corpus of biology textbooks - Susan Hunston: Counting the uncountable: Problems of identifying evaluation in a text and in a corpus - Giuliana Diani: Evaluation in Academic Review Articles - Amanda C. Murphy: A hidden or unobserved presence? Impersonal evaluative structures in English and Italian and their wake - Linda Lombardo: That-clauses and reporting verbs as evaluation in TV news - John Morley: The Sting in the tail: Persuasion in English editorial discourse - Anna-Brita Stenström: What is going on between speakers - Stefania Biscetti: Using corpus techniques to study pragmatic meaning: The case of bloody - Annamaria Caimi: The pragmatic function of conditional subordinators in the Treaties of the European Union: Examples from an English/Italian specialized corpus based study - Maurizio Gotti: Prediction in Early Modern English: A comparison between SHALL and WILL - Polly Walsh: Throwing light on prediction: Insights from a corpus of financial news articles - Giuliana Garzone/Francesca Santulli: What can Corpus Linguistics do for Critical Discourse Analysis? - Francesca Vaghi/Marco Venuti: Metaphor and the Euro - Michael Hoey: Lexical priming and the properties of text.