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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Routledge corpus linguistics guides |
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Chapter 1: CL and pragmatics--an introduction Chapter 2: CL and speech acts Chapter 3: CL and deixis Chapter 4: CL and pragmatic markers Chapter 5: CL and evaluation Chapter 6: CL and conversational structure Chapter 7: CL and multimodality Chapter 8: Concluding remarks |
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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 CL and pragmatics -- an introduction; 1.1 Corpora and corpus linguistics; 1.2 Pragmatics; 1.3 Corpus pragmatics; 1.4 Chapter structure; 1.5 A note on BNC transcripts and BNCweb; 1.6 How to get registered for BNCweb; 1.7 Working with BNCweb; 2 CL and speech acts; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 Structure of speech acts; 2.1.2 Performative/constative dichotomy; 2.1.3 Form-function mismatch; 2.1.4 Searle's (1976) taxonomy of illocutionary acts; 2.1.5 Indirect speech acts |
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2.1.6 What motivates indirect speech acts?2.2 Focus: Corpus research on the speech act expression 'Why don't you'; 2.3 Task: Exploring Why not + V speech acts in BNCweb; 2.4 Further exercises; 2.4.1 Different speech acts performed by the same utterance: the case of "oh I don't know"; 2.4.2 Comparing speech act expressions: 'Can i' vs. 'Can you'-formatted speech acts; 2.4.3 Comparing speech acts: Ferguson/Missouri, August 9, 2014; 3 CL and deixis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Deixis and reference; 3.1.2 The deictic origo; 3.1.3 Deictic projection; 3.1.4 Deictic fields |
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3.2 Focus on social deixis and short-term diachronic change3.3 Task: Deictic projection in the use of constructed dialog; 3.4 Further exercises; 3.4.1 Deixis and reference patterns of the definite article the; 3.4.2 Deictic proximity manipulation in 'wondered/was wondering if'-formatted requests; 3.4.3 Deictic anchoring; 4 CL and pragmatic markers; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Keyness and frequency in conversation; 4.1.2 Functions; 4.1.3 Positioning; 4.2 Focus on acoustic properties of 'well'; 4.3 Task: 'BE like' in COCA; 4.4 Further exercises |
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4.4.1 Diachronic change in the use of pragmatic marker 'well' in journalistic writing4.4.2 Canonical ordering in clusters of pragmatic markers; 4.4.3 'Well' in news broadcasts; 5 CL and evaluation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Pervasiveness of evaluation; 5.1.2 Evaluation in storytelling; 5.2 Focus on evaluative prosody; 5.3 Task: Functions of 'tails'; 5.4 Further exercises; 5.4.1 Investigating evaluative prosodies of 'BUILD up'; 5.4.2 Exploring 'good' synonyms and 'bad' synonyms; 5.4.3 Evaluation in storytelling; 6 CL and conversational structure; 6.1 Introduction; 6.1.1 Turn |
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6.1.1.1 Turn preface6.1.1.2 Turn-constructional unit (TCU) and transition-relevance place (TRP); 6.1.1.3 Transition space; 6.1.2 Sequence; 6.1.3 Preference; 6.2 Focus on backchannels in storytelling sequences; 6.3 Task: Turn openers and turn prefaces; 6.4 Further Exercises; 6.4.1 Co-constructed turns; 6.4.2 Delayed responses; 6.4.3 Overlapped tag questions; 7 CL and multimodality; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Focus on multimodality in storytelling; 7.3 Task: Climacto-telic crescendo: the role of intensity in climax projection; 7.4 Further exercises; 7.4.1 Mimicry in conversation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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Pragmatics.
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pragmatics.
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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Pragmatics.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429835605 |
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0429835604 |
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9780429835612 |
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0429835612 |
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9780429835599 |
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0429835590 |
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9780429451072 |
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0429451075 |
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