Corpora: Pragmatics and Discourse

Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt are professors of English linguistics at the University of Zurich.

”This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in how corpus-based research can contribute to the study of higher-level linguistic phenomena. The breadth of the collected papers is impressive, both in terms of their linguistic objects of study, which vary from high-level categories, such as exhortations, to specific constructions and words, as well as in the range of methodological approaches that are adopted by the authors of the studies. … a remarkable volume, presenting studies that should appeal to newcomers to corpus-based research in pragmatics and discourse as well as those who have already conducted this kind of research and want to stay informed of current approaches.” in: The Linguist List 21.2695

• IntroductionAndreas H. Jucker, Daniel Schreier and Marianne Hundt: Corpus linguistics, pragmatics and discoursePragmatics and discourseThomas Kohnen: Historical corpus pragmatics: Focus on speech acts and textsIrma Taavitsainen: The pragmatics of knowledge and meaning: Corpus linguistic approaches to changing thought-styles in early modern medical discourseTanja Rütten: A diachronic perspective on changing routines in textsMinna Nevala: Friends will be “friends”? The sociopragmatics of referential terms in early English lettersMinna Palander-Collin: Self-reference and mental processes in early English personal correspondence: A corpus approach to changing patterns of interactionAnita Fetzer: Sort of and kind of in political discourse: Hedge, head of NP or contextualization cue?Karin Aijmer: “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 EnglishMagnus Levin and Hans Lindquist: On the face of it: How recurrent phrases organize textKarin Axelsson: Research on fiction dialogue: Problems and possible solutionsAnna Marchi and Charlotte Taylor: Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005Lexis, grammar and semanticsStephen Coffey: A nightmare of a trip, a gem of a hotel: The study of an evaluative and descriptive frameMagali Paquot and Yves Bestgen: Distinctive words in academic writing: A comparison of three statistical tests for keyword extractionNaixing Wei: On the phraseology of Chinese learner spoken English: Evidence of lexical chunks from COLSECJukka Tyrkkö and Turo Hiltunen: Frequency of nominalization in Early Modern English medical writingArja Nurmi: May: The social history of an auxiliary Sara Gesuato: GO to V: Literal meaning and metaphorical extensionsCarolin Biewer: Passive constructions in Fiji English: A corpus-based study Ingvilt Marcoe: Subordinating conjunctions in Middle English and Early Modern English religious writingDaniël Van Olmen: A contrastive look at English and Dutch (negative) imperativesCorpus compilation, fieldwork and parsingDagmar Deuber: Caribbean ICE corpora: Some issues for fieldwork and analysisAlpo Honkapohja, Samuli Kaislaniemi and Ville Marttila: Digital Editions for Corpus Linguistics: Representing manuscript reality in electronic corporaHans Martin Lehmann and Gerold Schneider: Parser-based analysis of syntax-lexis interactionsIndex