Maite Taboada
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maite Taboada plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 0929-998X | E-ISSN 1569-9765
ISSN 1384-6655 | E-ISSN 1569-9811
ISSN 2589-7233 | E-ISSN 2589-7241
Title
Building Coherence and Cohesion: Task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish
Maite Taboada
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 129] 2004. xvii, 264 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Articles
2020. Are online news comments like face-to-face conversation? A multi-dimensional analysis of an emerging register. Register Studies 2:1, pp. 1–36
This article focuses on the question of whether online news comments are like face-to-face conversation or not. It is a widespread view that online comments are like “dialogue”, with comments often being referred to as “conversations”. These assumptions, however, lack empirical back-up. In order to… read more | Article
2019. The semantics of evaluational adjectives: Perspectives from Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Appraisal. Functions of Language 26:3, pp. 308–342
We apply the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach (Goddard & Wierzbicka 2014) to the lexical-semantic analysis of English evaluational adjectives and compare the results with the picture developed in the Appraisal Framework (Martin & White 2005). The analysis is corpus-assisted, with… read more | Article
2019. The space of coherence relations and their signalling in discourse. Language, Context and Text 1:2, pp. 205–233
I present an overview of the concept of coherence in discourse and explore how one of the essential elements to that coherence, relational coherence, has been studied and partitioned in different discourse traditions. I then introduce one of the theories that deals with discourse coherence,… read more | Article
2016. Loving and hating the movies in English, German and Spanish. Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 127–161
We present a quantitative analysis of evaluative language in a genre in which it is particularly prominent, that of movie reviews. The data chosen are non-professional consumer-generated reviews written in English, German and Spanish. The reviews are analysed in terms of the categories of Attitude… read more | Article
2014. Graduation within the scope of Attitude in English and Spanish consumer reviews of books and movies. Evaluation in Context, Thompson, Geoff † and Laura Alba-Juez (eds.), pp. 221–240
This chapter reports research on evaluative language in English and Spanish consumer-generated reviews on books and movies. Within the Appraisal framework, a contrastive study is carried out on the spans of Graduation embedded in spans of Attitude in 64 reviews. A qualitative analysis, covering a… read more | Article
2014. Loving and hating the movies in English, German and Spanish. Genre- and register-related discourse features in contrast, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 127–161
We present a quantitative analysis of evaluative language in a genre in which it is particularly prominent, that of movie reviews. The data chosen are non-professional consumer-generated reviews written in English, German and Spanish. The reviews are analysed in terms of the categories of Attitude… read more | Article
2013. Cohesion in multimodal documents: Effects of cross-referencing. Information Design Journal 20:2, pp. 98–110
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2009. Implicit and explicit coherence relations. Discourse, of Course: An overview of research in discourse studies, Renkema, Jan (ed.), pp. 127–140
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2006. Spontaneous and non-spontaneous turn-taking. Pragmatics 16:2/3, pp. 329–360
Turn-taking is usually considered to follow a simple set of rules, enacted through a perhaps more complicated system of signals. The most significant aspect of the turn-taking process is that, in most cases, it proceeds in a very smooth fashion. Speakers signal to each other that they wish to… read more | Article
2005. Anaphoric terms and focus of attention in English and Spanish. The Dynamics of Language Use: Functional and contrastive perspectives, Butler, Christopher S., María de los Ángeles Gómez González and Susana M. Doval-Suárez (eds.), pp. 197–218
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2004. Rhetorical relations in dialogue: A contrastive study. Discourse Across Languages and Cultures, Moder, Carol Lynn and Aida Martinovic-Zic (eds.), pp. 75–97
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2003. Rhetorical and thematic patterns in scheduling dialogues: A generic characterization. Functions of Language 10:2, pp. 147–178
This paper provides a corpus-based generic characterization of appointment-scheduling dialogues — a type of task-oriented conversation — by concentrating on the rhetorical and thematic choices made by the speakers that produce them. The analytical tools used for this study are Rhetorical Structure… read more | Article
1998. Steve Young and Gerrit Bloothooft (eds.) Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing. Functions of Language 5:1, pp. 129–131
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