Corpus Pragmatics
Corpus Pragmatics
Daria Dayter, Universität Basel, Switzerland
Thomas C. Messerli, Universität Basel, Switzerland
Miriam A. Locher, Universität Basel, Switzerland
This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and data that provides orientation for methodological decisions. In addition, the Element identifies areas in which new methodological developments are needed in order to make new types of data accessible for pragmatic research. Linguistic corpora are currently undergoing diversification. While one trend is to move towards increasingly large corpora, another trend is to enhance corpora with more specialised and layered annotation. Both these trends offer new challenges and opportunities for the study of pragmatics. This volume provides a practical overview of state-of-the-art corpus-pragmatic methods in relation to different types of corpus data, covering established methods as well as innovative approaches. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Reviews & endorsements
'… this book constitutes an illuminating exploration of corpus pragmatics, which encompasses an in-depth analysis of the associated challenges, methodologies and trends.' Yanfei Fang, Corpus Pragmatics
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No date availablePaperback
9781009095082
75 pages
227 × 152 × 6 mm
0.16kg
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Corpora and their characteristics: challenges and opportunities for pragmatic research
- 3. Corpus-driven approaches with self-compiled corpora
- 4. Corpus-assisted approaches with self-compiled corpora
- 5. Compatibility and comparability: combining existing corpora
- 6. Scalability: meaningful pragmatics with large data
- 7. Multimodality: integrating non-verbal information
- 8. Open issues and outlook
- Appendix A: Corpora
- Appendix B: Corpus tools and additional resources References.
