Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse: Papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29). Ascona, ... 14-18 May 2008. (Language & Computers)

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. 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 Edited By Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier And Marianne Hundt. International Conference Proceedings. Includes Bibliographical References.