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Patterns and meanings in discourse : theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) /
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Patterns and Meanings in Discourse; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 0.1 Discourse and discourse analysis; 0.2 Corpus linguistics; 0.2.1 What it is and what it does; 0.2.2 Quantity, frequency, comparison and recurrence (or patterning); 0.2.3 Serendipity; 0.3 Corpus-assisted discourse studies or CADS; 0.3.1 Definition and aims; 0.3.2 A comparison between traditional corpus linguistics and CADS; 0.4 The corpora and tools for analysing corpora; 0.4.1 The corpora; 0.4.2 Corpus annotation; 0.4.3 Tools for analysing corpora.
- 0.5 Guide to the contents of this bookThe two principles of discourse organisation; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Grammatical organisation; 1.2.1 Open choice; 1.2.2 The idiom principle and coselection; 1.2.3 Issues with idioms; 1.3 Script theory; 1.3.1 Learning and memory; 1.3.2 Understanding discourse; 1.4 Inductive knowledge-driven reasoning; 1.4.1 Needs, goals and plans; 1.5 Parallels; 1.5.1 Open choice and logical induction: Rule-driven behaviour; 1.5.2 The idiom and the script principles: Lexical priming; 1.6 Conclusion; Evaluation in discourse communication.
- 2.1 For good and for bad, for better and for worse2.2 Point of view; 2.3 Evaluation working in discourse; 2.4 Categories of evaluative lexis; 2.5 Note: The evaluator and evaluative voices; 2.6 Evaluation and cohesion; evaluative consistency or harmony; 2.7 Evaluative prosody; 2.8 Embedding and nesting; 2.9 Conclusion; Suggestions for further Research; Evaluation and control; 3.1 Control: The linguistic unit; 3.2 Control and power relations; 3.3 The control feature and evaluative prosody: Examples; 3.3.1 Set in; 3.3.2 Sit through; 3.3.3 Undergo; 3.3.4 Budge; 3.3.5 Persistence/Persistent.
- 3.3.6 Break out3.3.7 Outbreak; 3.3.8 End up; 3.3.9 Cause; 3.3.10 Fuel; 3.3.11 Fickle and flexible; 3.3.12 Orchestrate; 3.3.13 True feelings; 3.4 Conclusions; Investigating Rhetoric in Discourse 1; Utterance irony; 4.1 Irony explicit and implicit; 4.2 Suitability of data; 4.3 Case study 1: Explicit irony; 4.3.1 What is irony? Ask the people; 4.3.2 The evaluator; 4.3.3 Reversal of evaluation; 4.4 Case study 2: Implicit irony; 4.4.1 Using corpus techniques to find episodes of implicit irony; 4.4.2 Reversal of evaluation in implicit irony; 4.4.3 Verisimilar ironies: Litotes.
- 4.4.4 Irony in questions4.5 Conclusions on explicit and implicit irony; Phrasal irony; 4.6 Case study 3: The form, function and exploitation of phrasal irony; 4.7 Evaluative clash with the phrase; 4.8 Evaluative oxymoron; 4.9 Substitution by evaluative opposite in well-known phrases; 4.10 The "popularisation" of the ironic usage of a phrase; 4.11 Replacing an expected negative element of the template with something positive; 4.12 Replacing an expected positive element of the template with something negative; 4.13 How such ironic uses become popular.