Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse

Perspectives from corpus linguistics

Editors

Julia Bamford | Universita di Napoli "L'Orientale"

Silvia Cavalieri | Universita di Milano

Giuliana Diani | Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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This book focuses on aspects of variation and change in language use in spoken and written discourse on the basis of corpus analyses, providing new descriptive insights, and new methods of utilising small specialized corpora for the description of language variation and change. The sixteen contributions included in this volume represent a variety of diverse views and approaches, but all share the common goal of throwing light on a crucial dimension of discourse: the dialogic interactivity between the spoken and written. Their foci range from papers addressing general issues related to corpus analysis of spoken dialogue to papers focusing on specific cases employing a variety of analytical tools, including qualitative and quantitative analysis of small and large corpora. The present volume constitutes a highly valuable tool for applied linguists and discourse analysts as well as for students, instructors and language teachers.

[Dialogue Studies, 21] 2013. xiii, 290 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 October 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.21

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. vii

Introduction

Giuliana Diani | pp. ix–xiii

I. Corpus analysis of spoken dialogue
i. Variation and academic dialogue

1 . Speaking professionally in an L2: Issues of corpus methodology

Anna Mauranen | pp. 5–32

2. Common features and variations in the use of personal pronouns in two types of monologic academic speech

Akiko Okamura | pp. 33–44

ii. Dialogue in spoken and written business discourse

3. Variation across spoken and written registers in internal corporate communication: Multimodality and blending in evolving genres

Janet Bowker | pp. 47–64

4. Using grammatical tagging to explore spoken/written variation in small specialized corpora

Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli | pp. 65–76

iii. Dialogic variation and language varieties

5. Exploring regional variation in Italian question intonation: A corpus-based study

Michelina Savino | pp. 79–108

6. Estonian emotional speech corpus: Content and options

Rene Altrov and Hille Pajupuu | pp. 109–122

7. Using movie corpora to explore spoken American English: Evidence from multi-dimensional analysis

Pierfranca Forchini | pp. 123–136

8. “But that’s dialect, isn’t it?”: Exploring geographical variation in the SCOTS corpus

Wendy Anderson | pp. 137–152

II. Using corpora to analyse written discourse: A diachronic perspective
i. Diachronic approaches to historical corpora

9. Variation in the language of London newspapers: January 1701

Udo Fries | pp. 157–172

10. From letters to guidebooks: Ruskin’s Mornings in Florence

Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti | pp. 173–184

11. Justificatory arguments in writing on art: Toulmin’s model tested on a small corpus of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century exhibition reviews

Paul Tucker | pp. 185–202

12. Analysing discourse in research genre: The case of biostatistics

Chiara Prosperi Porta | pp. 203–220

ii. Diachronic methodologies and language change

13. The difference a word can show: A diachronic corpus-based study of the demonstrative ‘this’ in tourism research article abstracts

Šarolta Godnič Vičič | pp. 223–238

14. Changing trends in Italian newspaper language: A diachronic, corpus-based study

Stefania Spina | pp. 239–254

15. A corpus-based analysis of some time-related aspects of contemporary Japanese

Tadaharu Tanomura | pp. 255–268

16. It’s always the same old news! A diachronic analysis of shifting newspaper language style, 1993–2005

Caroline Clark | pp. 269–282

Name index | pp. 283–286

Subject index | pp. 287–290

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