Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics : a Mutualistic Entente.

The recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival heralde...

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Main Author: Romero-Trillo, Jesus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008
Series:Mouton series in pragmatics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction: Pragmatics and corpus linguistics
  • a mutualistic entente; At the interface between grammar and discourse
  • a corpus-based study of some pragmatic markers; The subjectivity of basically in British English
  • a corpus-based study; Variation in advanced oral interlanguage: The effect of proficiency on style choice; The use(fulness) of corpus research incross-cultural pragmatics: Complaining in intercultural service encounters; Hesitation markers among EFL learners: Pragmatic deficiency or difference?
  • Evidentiality in discourse: A pragmatic and empirical accountMulti-modal corpus pragmatics: The case of active listenership; Discourse markers and the pragmatics of native and non-native teachers in a CLIL corpus; A cross-linguistic study on the pragmatics of intonation in directives; The discourse-grammar interface of regulatory teacher talk in the EFL classroom; Backmatter.