Corpus and Context
Investigating pragmatic functions in spoken discourse
1st Edition
Published on 25. April 2008
XI, 151 pages
978-90-272-9046-5 (ISBN)
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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, funded by CUP (c)), a specific speech act function is being explored using different approaches and different levels of analysis. This involves a close analysis of contextual variables in relation to lexico-grammatical and discoursal patterns that emerge from the corpus data, as well as a wider discussion of the role of context in spoken corpus research.
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- Corpus and Context
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables and figures
- Tables
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1.0. Genesis of this book
- 1.1. Overview
- 1.2. Spoken discourse and corpus analysis
- 1.3. Pragmatics and corpus evidence
- 1.4. Speech act expressions
- 1.5. Corpus and context
- 1.5.1. Discourse Context
- 1.6. Why this book?
- 1.7. Organisation of this book
- Spoken discourse and corpus analysis
- 2.0. Introduction
- 2.1. Language as data
- 2.2. Language functions
- 2.3. Pragmatics and corpus linguistics
- 2.4. Speech Act Theory and corpus linguistics
- 2.4.1. Direct and indirect speech acts
- 2.5. Routinisation
- 2.6. Functional profiles
- 2.7. Speech act contexts
- 2.8. Spoken corpus design and contextual information: An example
- 2.8.1. Context-types
- 2.8.2. Interaction-types
- 2.8.3. Further issues in spoken corpus design
- 2.9. Summary
- Pragmatic functions, speech act expressions and corpus evidence
- 3.0. Introduction
- 3.1. Lexico-grammar and speech acts
- 3.2. Defining speech acts: The example of suggestions
- 3.3. Speech act classification and discourse analysis
- 3.3.1. Problems with cost benefit scales
- 3.4. Speech acts as strategies?
- 3.5. Speech act idioms revisited
- 3.5.1. Speech acts in a corpus
- 3.6. Functional profiles of speech act expressions
- 3.6.1. Functional prosody
- 3.6.2. Collocation
- 3.7. Summary
- Pragmatic functions in context
- 4.0. Introduction
- 4.1. Functional profiles and corpus-design
- 4.2. Text and context
- 4.3. Lexico-grammar, speech acts and context
- 4.4. Genre and text-type
- 4.5. Text-types and lexico-grammar
- 4.6. Speech acts and genre
- 4.7. Goals and discourse
- 4.8. Sample analysis
- 4.9. Summary
- Exploring pragmatic functions in discourse
- 5.0. Introduction
- 5.1. Making suggestions: Units of analysis at the level of discourse
- 5.2. Static versus dynamic models
- 5.3. Text-types and goal-types
- 5.4. Identifying a speech act episode
- 5.4.1. Agency in suggestion episodes
- 5.5. Pattern of problem solving
- 5.5.1. Suggestions and time reference
- 5.6. Categorising replies
- 5.6.1. Supporting moves
- 5.6.2. Challenging moves
- 5.6.3. Clarifying moves
- 5.6.4. Detaching moves
- 5.7. Reporting problems and reported suggestions
- 5.7.1. Integrating agency into story-telling genres
- 5.8. Summary
- Pragmatic functions beyond the text
- 6.0. Introduction
- 6.1. Multi-modal communication
- 6.1.1. Points of departure: From verbal to visual
- 6.2. Head-nods and backchannels: An integrated approach
- 6.3. Summary
- Concluding remarks
- 7.0. Opportunities and limitations of spoken corpus analysis
- 7.1. Possible areas of application
- 7.2. The role of context
- 7.3. Future challenges
- Transcription conventions for the CANCODE data used in this book
- References
- Index
