Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. 47–70
This chapter explains the categories and subcategories of the Semino and Short (2004) speech, writing and thought presentation model on which the annotation of our corpora is based. How speech, writing and thought presentation is distinguished and categorised is crucial to research into discourse presentation not only because gathering accurate quantitative data depends on it. It can also affect hugely the interpretation of the texts in question. We will also account for the additional subcategories which we introduced in the process of annotating contemporary present-tense narrative texts.