Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora
Edited by John M. Kirk and Gisle Andersen
Special issue of International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:3 (2016) iii, 148 pp.
John M. Kirk
List of John Benjamins publications for which John M. Kirk plays a role.
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Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics
Articles
2019 Chapter 10. The modal auxiliary verb may and change in Irish English Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 183–202 | Chapter
This paper presents an analysis of the modal auxiliary verb may using data from the International Corpus of English: Ireland Component (the ICE-Ireland Corpus and from other corpora for comparison. The analysis is focused on the semantic functions of may, especially root and epistemic uses. The… read more
2016 The Pragmatic Annotation Scheme of the SPICE-Ireland Corpus Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora, Kirk, John M. and Gisle Andersen (eds.), pp. 299–322 | Article
This paper builds on the paradox whereby transcriptions are the object of study for investigations into the spoken language but yet omit so much of “what is heard” when an utterance is made. Transcriptions are agnostic with regard to Searlean notions of illocutionary force and perlocutionary effect. read more
2016 Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora Compilation, transcription, markup and annotation of spoken corpora, Kirk, John M. and Gisle Andersen (eds.), pp. 291–298 | Article
2015 Kind of and sort of: Pragmatic discourse markers in the SPICE-Ireland Corpus Pragmatic Markers in Irish English, Amador-Moreno, Carolina P., Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan (eds.), pp. 89–113 | Article
Interpretation of the pragmatic discourse markers (PDMs) kind-of/sort-of depends on recognition of two megafunctions which each performs: evidential or textual, and affective or interpersonal. The use of these items is bound up with the degree of consciousness of the speaker to the communication in… read more
2015 The progressive in Irish English: Looking both ways? Grammatical Change in English World-Wide, Collins, Peter (ed.), pp. 87–118 | Article
Progressives in Irish English are categorised and described in terms of twenty basic and extended functions, determined by lexical, syntactic and pragmatic criteria. Quantitative information derived from a set of corpora is then used as the basis for historical comparisons within Irish English and… read more
2000 Dickens as Sociolinguist: Dialect in David Copperfield Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 27 ff. | Article
1997 Irish English and Contemporary Literary Writing Focus on Ireland, Kallen, Jeffrey L. (ed.), pp. 189 ff. | Article
1984 Language and the Scottish Literary Tradtion English World-Wide 5:2, pp. 259–265 | Article
