Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse

Contents

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 extraction

On 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 parsing

Caribbean 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