Corpus Pragmatics - A Handbook

This is the first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics. It covers corpus-pragmatic research carried out in key areas such as speech acts, reference and conversational organisation.

List of contents

Introduction. Corpus pragmatics: laying the foundations Christoph Rühlemann and Karin Aijmer; Part I. Corpora and Speech Acts: 1. Speech acts: a synchronic perspective Paula Garcia McAllister; 2. Speech acts: a diachronic perspective Thomas Kohnen; 3. Speech act annotation Martin Weisser; Part II. Corpora and Pragmatic Principles: 4. Processibility Gunther Kaltenböck; 5. Relevance Gisle Andersen; 6. Politeness Giuliana Diani; Part III. Corpora and Pragmatic Markers: 7. Pragmatic markers Karin Aijmer; 8. Stance markers Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber; 9. Interjections Neal Norrick; Part IV. Corpora and Evaluation: 10. Evaluative prosody Alan Partington; 11. Tails Ivor Timmis; Part V. Corpora and Reference: 12. Deixis Christoph Rühlemann and Matthew Brook O'Donnell; 13. Vagueness Winnie Cheng and Anne O'Keeffe; Part VI. Corpora and Turntaking: 14. Turn management and pauses Gunnel Tottie; 15. Turn management and backchannels Pam Peters and Deanna Wong; 16. Co-constructed turntaking Brian Clancy and Michael McCarthy.

About the author

Karin Aijmer is Professor Emerita in English Linguistics in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden.Christoph Rühlemann is a Researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.

Summary

This is the first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics. It covers corpus-pragmatic research carried out in key areas such as speech acts, reference and conversational organisation.

Product details

• Authors: Karin Aijmer, Karin (Goeteborgs Universitet Aijmer, Karin Ruhlemann Aijmer
• Assisted by: Karin Aijmer (Editor), Karin (Goeteborgs Universitet Aijmer (Editor), Aijmer Karin (Editor), Christoph Ruhlemann (Editor), Christoph (Philipps-Universitat Marburg Ruhlemann (Editor), Christoph Rühlemann (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108810449
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81044-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc