How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond
Martin Weisser
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 84] 2018. xiv, 294 pp.
Martin Weisser
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martin Weisser plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2021 Chapter 6. Profiling learners through pragmatically and error annotated corpora Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education, Pérez-Paredes, Pascual and Geraldine Mark (eds.), pp. 121–148 | Chapter
This proof-of-concept study presents a novel way of analysing learner language based on 20 randomly selected interviews from the Chinese part of the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) (Gilquin et al., 2010), annotated both pragmatically and using a newly… read more
2020 Speech acts in corpus pragmatics: Making the case for an extended taxonomy International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 25:4, pp. 400–425 | Article
In corpus pragmatics, most of the research into speech acts still tends to be limited to working with the original, highly abstract, speech-act taxonomies devised by ordinary language philosophers like Austin and Searle. The aim of this article is to illustrate how the use of such restricted… read more
2003 SPAACy – A semi-automated tool for annotating dialogue acts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 8:1, pp. 63–74 | Article
This article reports on a pilot project which aims at creating a speech-act annotated training corpus for service dialogue systems. In order to achieve this aim, an annotation tool, which allows us to automate large parts of the annotation, is being developed. This tool converts text-based… read more