Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

by Karin Aijmer (Editor), Diana Lewis (Editor)

Overview

This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, a publication that addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319545547
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/30/2017
Series:	Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics , #5
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jesús Romero-Trillo.- Part I: SOCIETY, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND CORPUS PRAGMATICS.- Towards a cyberpragmatics of mobile instant messaging by Francisco Yus.- Connected parents: combining online and off-line parenthood in blogs and vlogs by Carmen Santamaría-García.- Healing and comfort on the net: Gender and emotions in domestic violent environments by Eva M. Mestre-Mestre.- “The more please [places] I see the more I think of home”: On gendered discourse of Irishness and migration experiences by Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma, & Carolina P. Amador-Moreno.- A cross-linguistic study of conceptual metaphors in financial discourse by María Muelas-Gil.- Part II: LINGUISTIC AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CORPUS PRAGMATICS.- Teaching pragmatics with corpus data: The development of a corpus-referred website for the instruction of routine formulas in Russian by Edie Furniss.- Beyond engaged listenership: Assessing Spanish undergraduates’ active participation in academic mentoring sessions in English as academic lingua franca by Fiona MacArthur.- Focusing on content or language?: comparing paired conversations in CLIL and EFL classrooms, using a corpus by Keiko Tsuchiya.- Writers’ uncertainty in a corpus of scientific biomedical articles with a diachronic perspective by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Massimiliano Valotto, Roberto Burro.- Chinese University Students’ Development of Pragmatic Skills in L2 Italian: a Corpus-Based Study by Andrea Scibetta.- BOOK REVIEWS: Review of Bamford, J., Cavalieri, S. and Diani, G. (Eds). (2013) Variation and Change in Spoken and Written Discourse: Perspectives from Corpus Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Claire Childs).- Review of Kruger, A., Wallmach, K. and Munday J. (2011) Corpus-Based Translation Studies: Research and Applications. London and New York: Bloomsbury. (Sofia Malamatidou).- Review of Hyland, K., Huat, C. M. and Handford, M. (2012). Corpus Applications in Applied Linguistics.London: Bloomsbury. (Karen Donnelly).

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The volume edited by Aijmer and Lewis is an interesting and original contribution to the areas of pragmatics, discourse and genre studies. It achieves good balance between theory and practice. The chapters adopt a usage-based approach, exploiting a range of corpus material. Languages involved in the comparisons with English are Czech, Dutch, French, Polish, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. The book will make a valuable contribution to courses on corpus linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics and genre, discourse studies and the English language.” (Anna Gladkova, University of Brighton, UK)

Editorial Reviews

In sum, this collection makes remarkable methodological and theoretical contributions to contrastive linguistics, discourse-pragmatic and genre studies. ... provide thought-provoking views on the discourse-pragmatics and text-constructing characteristics such as modals, evidentials, cohesion and coherent devices, etc ... .” (Weiqian Liu and Yi'na Wang, English Text Construction, Vol. 14 (1), 2021)

“The different chapters illustrate the variety of discourse-pragmatic topics that can be explored in corpus linguistics. Next to the quantitative refinement they allow for, corpora give access to authentic examples of language in context. This, in fact, is one of the assets of the book: not only do the contributors illustrate their points with many corpus examples, but they also provide detailed descriptions of these. … The contrastive perspective adds an interesting dimension to the volume … .” (Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Discourse Studies, Vol. 20 (04), 2018)

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