Conversation in Context

A Corpus-driven Approach

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

AvChristoph Ruehlemann,Michaela Mahlberg

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"Conversation in Context" examines real-life speech data from the British National Corpus to show how language is used in natural conversation. The monograph describes the composition, annotation and transcription of the corpus, as well as providing a discussion of the methodology used in corpus analysis. The book uses a situational framework for conversation and argues that conversation is adapted to constraints set by the situation and to speaker needs arising from these constraints. Such a contextual view reveals a greater complexity to conversation construction than could have been anticipated without the use of corpus-based methods. This book will be of interest to academics researching corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-10-24
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt550 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCorpus and Discourse
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780826497130

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"This interesting and readable book offers both detailed, focused investigations of very specific conversation phenomena (as you would expect from a revised PhD dissertation), and a comprehensive literature overview, and the beginnings of a general framework for studying conversation phenomena in general. As the subtitle "A Corpus-driven Approach" indicates, the book comes from the tradition of and is mainly aimed at corpus linguistics, but it should be of interest to anyone who studies conversation, including computational linguists, philosophers of language, sociologists, and cognitive scientists...this book offers a wealth of interesting and useful observations, analyses, references, and methodological inspirations and is to be recommended to everyone interested in (data-oriented) analysis of conversation." - David Schlangen, Linguist List, October 6, 2008