Reference and Identity in Public Discourses
Edited by Ursula Lutzky and Minna Nevala
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 306] 2019. vi, 284 pp.
Ursula Lutzky
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ursula Lutzky plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Discourse Markers in Early Modern English
Ursula Lutzky
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 227] 2012. ix, 293 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
2024 From pre-owned printers to pristine Porsches: A corpus linguistic analysis of eBay item descriptions Corpus Approaches to Business Communication, Gillings, Mathew and Susanne Kopf (eds.), pp. 302–330 | Article
Recent years have seen a considerable increase in e-commerce, with sales forecast to continue rising over the coming years. This study provides a corpus linguistic analysis of item descriptions on eBay’s UK website, on which both members of the public and businesses can offer goods for sale. It… read more
2021 The sociopragmatic nature of interjections in Early Modern English drama comedy: From ah to tut Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 225–244 | Article
Interjections have been studied for all periods in the history of English, ranging from the study of Old English exclamations such as hwaet (Brinton 2017) to the pragmatic functions of forms such as oops in Present Day English (Lutzky and Kehoe 2017). The Early Modern English (EModE) period… read more
2019 “But it is not prov’d”: A sociopragmatic study of the discourse marker but in the Early Modern English courtroom Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:1, pp. 1–19 | Article
Previous studies have found discourse markers to be represented with only low frequencies in Early Modern English trial proceedings, especially when compared to other dialogic and fictional text types from the same period. Nevertheless, they comprise certain classes of markers, such as… read more
2019 Pragmatic explorations of reference and identity in public discourses Reference and Identity in Public Discourses, Lutzky, Ursula and Minna Nevala (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Chapter
This introductory chapter sets the scene for the contributions to this volume which are all focused on the analysis of reference and identity in public discourses. In this chapter, we provide an initial overview of previous research findings on reference and identity, and thus offer a foundation on… read more
2016 Your blog is (the) shit : A corpus linguistic approach to the identification of swearing in computer mediated communication International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 21:2, pp. 165–191 | Article
The study of swearing has increased in the last decade, diversifying to include a wider range of data and methods of analysis. Nevertheless, certain types of data and specifically large corpora of computer mediated communication (CMC) have not been studied extensively. In this paper, we fill a… read more
2013 Pray in Early Modern English drama Journal of Historical Pragmatics 14:2, pp. 263–284 | Article
This study seeks to provide new insights into the development and use of pray in Early Modern English. The study is based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus, which combines the drama text samples of three different Early Modern English corpora, comprising a total of 242,561 words from… read more
2012 Why and what in Early Modern English drama Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 177–190 | Article
This study sheds new light on the nature of the discourse markers why and what in the Early Modern English (EModE) period. It attempts to fill a gap by providing a contrastive analysis of these two markers of similar origin in the drama samples of two EModE corpora – A Corpus of English Dialogues… read more