Local grammars and diachronic speech act analysis
A case study of apology in the history of American English
Hang Su | Sichuan International Studies University
This paper proposes a method that is designed to facilitate diachronic speech act analysis. The proposed method
draws on the corpus linguistic concept of local grammar – an approach which seeks to account for, not the whole of a language, but
one meaning or function only. Local grammar descriptions capture both formal and semantic regularities of speech act realisations,
and local grammars offer a more reliable way to quantify speech act realisations across time. It is particularly in this respect
that it is argued that a local grammar approach can be useful for diachronic speech act studies, which is demonstrated
subsequently by tracing one particular speech act, namely “apology”, in a sample of the Corpus of Historical American English
(coha).
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Local grammar
- 3.Corpus and data retrieval
- 4.A local grammar analysis of apology
- 5.Results and discussion
- 6.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
References
Published online: 28 August 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00038.su
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.00038.su
References
Archer, Dawn
Barnbrook, Geoff
Bednarek, Monika
Bella, Spyridoula
Bergner, Heinz
Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Juliane House and Gabriele Kasper
Brown, Penelope and Stephen C. Levinson
Cheng, Winnie and Tiffany Ching
Davies, Mark
Deutschmann, Mats
Fitzmaurice, Susan and Irma Taavitsainen
Garcia, Paula
Hunston, Susan
Hunston, Susan and John Sinclair
Hunston, Susan and Hang Su
Jacobsson, Mattias
Jucker, Andreas H.
Jucker, Andreas H. and Irma Taavitsainen
Kohnen, Thomas
Koptytko, Roman
Su, Hang
Su, Hang and Naixing Wei
Taavitsainen, Irma and Susan Fitzmaurice
Taavitsainen, Irma and Andreas H. Jucker
Cited by
Cited by 7 other publications
An, Yi, Hang Su & Mingyou Xiang
Saleem, Tahir, Uzma Unjum, Munawar Iqbal Ahmed, Ayaz Qadeer & Krisda Chaemsaithong
Saleem, Tahir, Musarat Yasmin, Aisha Saleem & Krisda Chaemsaithong
Su, Hang
Su, Hang
Su, Hang & Lei Zhang
Su, Hang, Yuqing Zhang & Xiaofei Lu
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 19 april 2022. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.