Corpora : pragmatics and discourse : papers from the 29th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008 / / edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt.

• Superior document: Language and computers ; no. 68
• Author: International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora Ascona, Switzerland)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hundt, Marianne.; Jucker, Andreas H.; Schreier, Daniel, 1971-
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Language and computers ; no. 68.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (529 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Editors Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse -- Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discourse / Andreas H. Jucker , Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt -- Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and texts / Thomas Kohnen -- The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourse / Irma Taavitsainen -- A diachronic perspective on changing routines in texts / Tanja Rütten -- Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English letters / Minna Nevala -- Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interaction / Minna Palander-Collin -- Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue? / Anita Fetzer -- “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 / Karin Aijmer -- On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize text / Magnus Levin and Hans Lindquist -- Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutions / Karin Axelsson -- Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005 / Anna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor -- A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frame / Stephen Coffey -- Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extraction / Magali Paquot and Yves Bestgen -- On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSEC / Naixing Wei -- Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writing / Jukka Tyrkkö and Turo Hiltunen -- May: The social history of an auxiliary / Arja Nurmi -- Go to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensions / Sara Gesuato -- Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study / Carolin Biewer -- Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writing / Ingvilt Marcoe -- A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperatives / Daniël Van Olmen -- Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysis / Dagmar Deuber -- Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corpora / Alpo Honkapohja , Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila -- Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactions / Hans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider -- Index / Editors Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse.