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 corpus pragmatics and corpus-based discourse analysis. It includes corpus-based studies of speech acts, conversational routines, referential expressions and thought styles, as well as studies on the lexis, grammar and semantics of English. And it also includes several studies on technical aspects of corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing. Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt are professors of English linguistics at the University of Zurich.
Author(s): Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 532
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse......Page 10
Part I Pragmatics and discourse......Page 18
Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts......Page 20
The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse......Page 44
A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts......Page 70
Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters......Page 90
Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction......Page 112
Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue?......Page 134
“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......Page 158
On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text......Page 176
Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions......Page 196
Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005......Page 210
Part II Lexis, grammar and semantics......Page 234
A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame......Page 236
Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extraction......Page 254
On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC......Page 278
Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing......Page 304
May: The social history of an auxiliary......Page 328
Go to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions......Page 350
Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study......Page 368
Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing......Page 386
A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives......Page 414
Part III Corpus compilation, fieldwork and parsing......Page 430
Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis......Page 432
Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora......Page 458
Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions......Page 484
Index......Page 510
