Corpora and Discourse: The Challenges of Different Settings (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, Volume 31)

Corpora and Discourse......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Corpus-linguistic studies of discourse......Page 8
Finding discourse-relevant data......Page 9
Overview of the chapters......Page 11
References......Page 13
Exploring discourse in academic settings......Page 14
'...post-colonialism, multi-culturalism, structuralism, feminism, post-modernism and so on and so forth'......Page 16
1. Introduction: Vague categories......Page 17
2. Previous research into vague categories......Page 18
3. Classroom modes......Page 20
4. Data and methodology......Page 23
5. Analysis......Page 24
5.1. Managerial mode......Page 26
5.2. Materials mode......Page 28
5.3. Skills and systems mode......Page 29
5.4. Classroom context mode......Page 31
6. Conclusions......Page 33
References......Page 34
Appendix Transcription conventions......Page 36
1. Introduction......Page 38
2.1. Methodological preliminaries......Page 41
2.2. Material......Page 42
3.1. Comparing frequencies: Keywords of economics and history......Page 44
3.2. Ambiguity of functions: Focus on syntactic role/scope......Page 46
3.3. Collocation and ``semantic preference''......Page 50
3.4. Pragmatic and textual functions: Focus on significantly, invariably and undoubtedly......Page 53
4. Conclusion......Page 59
References......Page 60
1. Introduction......Page 64
2. Methodological approach......Page 66
2.1. The SCEGAD corpus......Page 68
2.2. Phenomena examined and statistical methods......Page 69
3. Results......Page 71
3.1. Person reference across languages and cultures......Page 72
3.2. Person reference across disciplines......Page 75
3.3. Person reference across genders and academic status levels......Page 80
4. Person reference and discourse strategies......Page 84
4.1. Managing complex persona with person reference......Page 89
5. Conclusion......Page 95
References......Page 96
Exploring discourse in workplace settings......Page 100
1. Introduction......Page 102
2. Humour and the workplace setting......Page 103
3. Data and methodology......Page 107
3.1. Transcription issues......Page 108
4. Discussion and results......Page 110
4.1. Subversive humour......Page 111
4.2. Reinforcing humour......Page 117
5. Conclusion......Page 120
References......Page 121
1. Introduction......Page 124
2.2. Rationale and description of coding system......Page 125
3.1. Analysis of 'problem'/'problems'......Page 131
3.2. Analysis of 'impact'/'impacts'......Page 133
4. Conclusion......Page 136
References......Page 137
Appendix 1: Coding scheme for professional reports......Page 139
1. Introduction......Page 142
2. Word associations......Page 143
3. Discourse intonation and word associations......Page 145
4. Tone unit and prominence......Page 146
5. Data of the study......Page 147
6. Discussion of lexically-rich word associations......Page 148
7. Discussion of distribution of prominence......Page 151
8. Discussion of grammatically-rich word associations......Page 153
9. Conclusions......Page 156
References......Page 158
Appendix iConc© and Computer readable prosodic transcription conventions......Page 160
Exploring discourse in news and entertainment......Page 162
Introduction......Page 164
Bias and newspaper reporting......Page 165
Evidentiality in language......Page 166
Data collection......Page 168
Samples of the data......Page 170
Automated and manual data analysis......Page 171
Direct vs. indirect reported speech......Page 174
Sources cited in the corpus......Page 177
Sources cited in Sample B......Page 180
The use of nested evidentiality......Page 184
The use of unnamed sources......Page 186
Reporting words used to report speech events......Page 189
Conclusion......Page 192
References......Page 194
1. Introduction......Page 196
2.1. The Friends corpus: Settings and interactions......Page 197
2.2. The conversation corpus: Settings and interactions......Page 199
3. Results......Page 202
3.1. Multidimensional analysis: Similarities......Page 203
3.2. Functional analysis of Friends......Page 206
4. Conclusion......Page 215
References......Page 216
Appendix......Page 217
1. Introduction......Page 218
1.1. Hip-hop identity in message board discourse......Page 220
2. Methodology......Page 222
3. Openings and closings......Page 223
3.1. Yo......Page 225
4. Slang and taboo terms......Page 228
4.1. Slang......Page 229
4.2. Taboo terms......Page 230
5. Verbal art......Page 231
5.1. Non-standard orthography......Page 234
5.2. Use of numbers......Page 235
5.3. Word-final 'a'......Page 237
5.4. Word-final 'z'......Page 240
5.5. Use of special characters......Page 241
6. Conclusion......Page 243
References......Page 244
Appendix A......Page 247
Exploring discourse through  specific linguistic features......Page 248
1. Introduction......Page 250
2. It-clefts in Present-day English: Theory and frequency......Page 251
3. Brief historical background on it-clefts......Page 254
4. It-clefts in 19th-century English......Page 255
5.1. Structures of it-cleft constructions in 19th-century Trials......Page 261
5.2. Extensions of the it-cleft pattern......Page 265
5.3. Informational aspects of it-clefts in Trials......Page 267
6. Conclusion......Page 269
References......Page 271
1. Introduction......Page 274
2. Previous work......Page 276
3. Adverb selection, corpora and methodology......Page 279
3.1. Functions of here......Page 281
3.3. Functions of now......Page 282
3.4. Functions of then......Page 284
4. Results and discussion......Page 286
4.1. The place adverb here......Page 288
4.3. Time adverb now......Page 289
4.4. Time adverb then......Page 290
5. Conclusion......Page 291
References......Page 293
Author index......Page 296
Corpus and tools index......Page 298
Subject index......Page 300
The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics......Page 304