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Corpora: Pragmatics and discourse : papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008 /

This volume presents current state-of-the-art discussions in corpus-based linguistic research of the English language. The papers deal with Present-day English, worldwide varieties of English and the history of the English language. A special focus of the volume are studies in the broad field of cor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jucker, Andreas H., Schreier, Daniel, 1971-, Hundt, Marianne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Language and computers ; no. 68.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse; Part I Pragmatics and discourse; Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts; The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse; A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts; Friends will be "friends"? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters; Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction
  • Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue?"So er I just sort I dunno I think it's just because ... ": A corpus study of I don't know and dunno in learners' spoken English; On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text; Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions; Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005; Part II Lexis, grammar and semantics; A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame
  • Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extractionOn the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC; Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing; May: The social history of an auxiliary; Go to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions; Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study; Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing; A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives
  • Part III Corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsingCaribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis; Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora; Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions; Index