Patterns and Meanings in Discourse
Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)
| University of Bologna
| University of Siena
| University of Portsmouth
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Each chapter begins with an outline of an area, followed by case studies which attempt both to shed light on particular themes in this area and to demonstrate the methodologies which might be fruitfully employed to investigate them. The chapters conclude with suggestions on activities which the readers may wish to undertake themselves. An Appendix contains a list of currently available resources for corpus research which were used or mentioned in the book.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 55] 2013. xiii, 371 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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xiii–xiv
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Introduction
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1–24
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Chapter 1. The two principles of discourse organisation: Chunk recall and inductive reasoning
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25–42
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Chapter 2. Evaluation in discourse communication
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43–66
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Chapter 3. Evaluation and control
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67–96
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Chapter 4. Investigating rhetoric in discourse 1: Irony
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97–130
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Chapter 5. Investigating rhetoric in discourse 2: Metaphor
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131–164
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Chapter 6. Corpus-assisted stylistics: Investigating author style
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165–186
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Chapter 7. Cross-linguistic discourse analysis: Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press
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187–208
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Chapter 8. Interactive spoken discourse 1: Managing the message
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209–238
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Chapter 9. Interactive spoken discourse 2: CADS & (im)politeness
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239–264
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Chapter 10. Modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies (MD-CADS) 1: Comparisons over time in lexical grammar and discourse practices
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265–282
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Chapter 11. Modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies (MD-CADS) 2: Comparisons over time of social, political and cultural issues
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283–322
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Chapter 12. Conclusion
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323–342
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Appendix: Resources
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343–348
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References
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349–364
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Author index
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365–368
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Subject index
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369–372
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