Corpus Pragmatics
A Handbook

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

Karin Aijmer (Edited by), Christoph Rühlemann (Edited by)

9781107015043, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 December 2014

480 pages, 38 b/w illus. 39 tables
23.6 x 16 x 3.2 cm, 0.89 kg

'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

Corpus linguistics is a long-established method which uses authentic language data, stored in extensive computer corpora, as the basis for linguistic research. Moving away from the traditional intuitive approach to linguistics, which used made-up examples, corpus linguistics has made a significant contribution to all areas of the field. Until very recently, corpus linguistics has focused almost exclusively on syntax and the lexicon; however corpus-based approaches to the other subfields of linguistics are now rapidly emerging, and this is the first handbook on corpus pragmatics as a field. Bringing together a team of leading scholars from around the world, this handbook looks at how the use of corpus data has informed research into different key aspects of pragmatics, including pragmatic principles, pragmatic markers, evaluation, reference, speech acts, and conversational organisation.

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.

Subject Areas: Communication studies [GTC], Semantics, discourse analysis, etc [CFG], Sociolinguistics [CFB], Linguistics [CF], Language [C]