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De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 5, 2022
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 16, 2010
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Aug 15, 2020
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2013
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2004
Page 1. Jucker, Andreas H., and Sara W. Smith. 2004. ""He hired who?": Problems in... more Page 1. Jucker, Andreas H., and Sara W. Smith. 2004. ""He hired who?": Problems in Reference Assignment in Conversations." In: Karin Aijmer (ed.). Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue. ...
Pragmatics & beyond, Feb 21, 2014
Speech acts are functional entities and can, therefore, not be searched for directly in large com... more Speech acts are functional entities and can, therefore, not be searched for directly in large computerised corpora. They can only be located on the basis of specific patterns that are known to be typical for a particular speech act, e.g. with IFIDs like “(I’m) sorry”. In this contribution we propose an alternative way called metacommunicative expression analysis. In this approach we do not search for a particular speech act but via expressions referring to this speech act we search for passages in which a speaker talks about it. As a case study we look at compliments in four samples of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) comprising texts from 1810 to 2010 and in an additional sample in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). 1741 passages containing the word “compliment” were retrieved across the two centuries and analysed manually on the basis of the information given in the context. The results suggest that a distinction must be made between ceremonious compliments and personal compliments and that – contrary to claims in the relevant literature – men are more often described as paying and receiving compliments than women.
Pragmatics & beyond, 1998
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 16, 2010
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, May 4, 2000
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2000
Rodopi eBooks, 2009
... Bresnan, J., A. Cueni, T. Nikitina and H. Baayen (2007b),'Predicting the dative alte... more ... Bresnan, J., A. Cueni, T. Nikitina and H. Baayen (2007b),'Predicting the dative alternation', in: G. Boume, I. Kraemer and J. Zwarts (eds.) Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Science. 69-94. Page 16. 8 Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel ...
De Gruyter eBooks, Apr 10, 2017
Discourse markers in English are ordinarily used to facilitate the exchange of propositional cont... more Discourse markers in English are ordinarily used to facilitate the exchange of propositional content and propositional attitude, but they are not considered capable of conveying substance themselves. If Speaker A asks" Is it raining?" and Speaker B, who has just ...
Routledge eBooks, Apr 16, 2020
Digital pragmatics is part of the rich field of digital humanities. While the term digital humani... more Digital pragmatics is part of the rich field of digital humanities. While the term digital humanities refers to the entire field of studies that combines computing with the various disciplines of the humanities, the term digital pragmatics refers to the combination of computing with pragmatics, the field of studies that investigates the use of language in all its complexities in actual social and interactional contexts. We will focus on how empirical studies on digital data have changed and are changing this research field, and how its new resources have contributed to our understanding of topics like interpersonal relational work and politeness. We will provide the background of the digital revolution in pragmatics which can be located in the last decade of the twentieth century through the first decade of the twenty-first century when digital corpora became more widely accessible. Section 3 on critical issues will deal, in particular, with the key challenges faced in digital pragmatics, i.e. the traceability of pragmatic (functional) entities through specific (formal) search patterns. We will then proceed to give an overview of current research efforts in this field, starting from the microlevel of individual expressions to utterances, phrases and collocations, to larger units like speech acts, and proceeding all the way to the macrolevel of genres as meaning-making cultural forms. We shall discuss some of the pertinent methodological issues in searching big data for pragmatic units and provide a case study of the expressive speech act of thanking.
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 5, 2022
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 16, 2010
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Aug 15, 2020
Studies in Language Companion Series, 2013
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2004
Page 1. Jucker, Andreas H., and Sara W. Smith. 2004. ""He hired who?": Problems in... more Page 1. Jucker, Andreas H., and Sara W. Smith. 2004. ""He hired who?": Problems in Reference Assignment in Conversations." In: Karin Aijmer (ed.). Dialogue Analysis VIII: Understanding and Misunderstanding in Dialogue. ...
Pragmatics & beyond, Feb 21, 2014
Speech acts are functional entities and can, therefore, not be searched for directly in large com... more Speech acts are functional entities and can, therefore, not be searched for directly in large computerised corpora. They can only be located on the basis of specific patterns that are known to be typical for a particular speech act, e.g. with IFIDs like “(I’m) sorry”. In this contribution we propose an alternative way called metacommunicative expression analysis. In this approach we do not search for a particular speech act but via expressions referring to this speech act we search for passages in which a speaker talks about it. As a case study we look at compliments in four samples of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) comprising texts from 1810 to 2010 and in an additional sample in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). 1741 passages containing the word “compliment” were retrieved across the two centuries and analysed manually on the basis of the information given in the context. The results suggest that a distinction must be made between ceremonious compliments and personal compliments and that – contrary to claims in the relevant literature – men are more often described as paying and receiving compliments than women.
Pragmatics & beyond, 1998
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 16, 2010
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, May 4, 2000
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2000
Rodopi eBooks, 2009
... Bresnan, J., A. Cueni, T. Nikitina and H. Baayen (2007b),'Predicting the dative alte... more ... Bresnan, J., A. Cueni, T. Nikitina and H. Baayen (2007b),'Predicting the dative alternation', in: G. Boume, I. Kraemer and J. Zwarts (eds.) Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Science. 69-94. Page 16. 8 Andreas H. Jucker, Daniel ...
De Gruyter eBooks, Apr 10, 2017
Discourse markers in English are ordinarily used to facilitate the exchange of propositional cont... more Discourse markers in English are ordinarily used to facilitate the exchange of propositional content and propositional attitude, but they are not considered capable of conveying substance themselves. If Speaker A asks" Is it raining?" and Speaker B, who has just ...
Routledge eBooks, Apr 16, 2020
Digital pragmatics is part of the rich field of digital humanities. While the term digital humani... more Digital pragmatics is part of the rich field of digital humanities. While the term digital humanities refers to the entire field of studies that combines computing with the various disciplines of the humanities, the term digital pragmatics refers to the combination of computing with pragmatics, the field of studies that investigates the use of language in all its complexities in actual social and interactional contexts. We will focus on how empirical studies on digital data have changed and are changing this research field, and how its new resources have contributed to our understanding of topics like interpersonal relational work and politeness. We will provide the background of the digital revolution in pragmatics which can be located in the last decade of the twentieth century through the first decade of the twenty-first century when digital corpora became more widely accessible. Section 3 on critical issues will deal, in particular, with the key challenges faced in digital pragmatics, i.e. the traceability of pragmatic (functional) entities through specific (formal) search patterns. We will then proceed to give an overview of current research efforts in this field, starting from the microlevel of individual expressions to utterances, phrases and collocations, to larger units like speech acts, and proceeding all the way to the macrolevel of genres as meaning-making cultural forms. We shall discuss some of the pertinent methodological issues in searching big data for pragmatic units and provide a case study of the expressive speech act of thanking.