Introduction. Corpus pragmatics: laying the foundations Christoph Rühlemann and Karin Aijmer; Part I. Corpora and Speech Acts: 1. Speech acts: a synchronic perspective Paula Garcia McAllister; 2. Speech acts: a diachronic perspective Thomas Kohnen; 3. Speech act annotation Martin Weisser; Part II. Corpora and Pragmatic Principles: 4. Processibility Gunther Kaltenböck; 5. Relevance Gisle Andersen; 6. Politeness Giuliana Diani; Part III. Corpora and Pragmatic Markers: 7. Pragmatic markers Karin Aijmer; 8. Stance markers Bethany Gray and Douglas Biber; 9. Interjections Neal Norrick; Part IV. Corpora and Evaluation: 10. Evaluative prosody Alan Partington; 11. Tails Ivor Timmis; Part V. Corpora and Reference: 12. Deixis Christoph Rühlemann and Matthew Brook O'Donnell; 13. Vagueness Winnie Cheng and Anne O'Keeffe; Part VI. Corpora and Turntaking: 14. Turn management and pauses Gunnel Tottie; 15. Turn management and backchannels Pam Peters and Deanna Wong; 16. Co-constructed turntaking Brian Clancy and Michael McCarthy.
The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
Karin Aijmer is Professor Emerita in English Linguistics in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden. Christoph Rühlemann is a Researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
'Pragmatics and corpus linguistics are two major areas of
linguistics which developed with very different trajectories from
the 1960s and 1970s. This volume shows that they are now on
convergent paths, and that corpus pragmatics is an emerging
discipline in its own right.' Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster
University
'This handbook focuses on the rapidly growing area of corpus
pragmatics, filling a gap in the literature. All contributions
present relevant pragmatic theory, a review of the earlier
literature, and an original empirical study on authentic language
data demonstrating how various corpus linguistic methods can be
applied to pragmatic research tasks. These studies offer fresh
insights and serve as models and inspiration for future scholars.'
Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki
'Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook is a must-read for researchers
interested in the area of corpus pragmatics as well as for scholars
with interests in related areas of language use that could benefit
from corpus-based approaches. It provides an excellent overview of
the field of corpus pragmatics as a whole, and it offers a
collection of articles that are interesting, informative, and well
written.' Lamont D. Antieau, The Linguist List
(linguistlist.org)
'Corpus Pragmatics is a rich depository of information for graduate
students and researchers. The authors successfully met the goal of
overviewing and expanding the field of corpus pragmatics by keeping
the right balance between theoretical background and practical
aspects of analysis, including specific empirical authentic
examples from corpus data … The handbook sheds light both on the
achievements and the existing challenges related to using corpora
for pragmatic research … Corpus Pragmatics provides a solid
repository of knowledge and new research avenues for everybody who
wants to further explore and contribute to this fascinating
linguistic field.' Oksana Bomba, LINGUIST List
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